I don't spoil myself on extravagant cars or spending money on jewelry. So I save a lot of the money I have.Collection: Car
I was excited 'Maxim' wanted me to be in Expert Fitness.Collection: Fitness
My family comes from Panama, and I grew up in a single parent household with my mother, who barely spoke English. She couldn't get a good job, yet there were four of us for her to raise.
There's only so far you can push a man.
I don't want to be bothered when I'm stretching. I need to focus.
When you get to a certain level in wrestling, you got to be the ring general, and I've been in wrestling for a long time. And I can be a ring general against anybody.
Once you catch that fever of wrestling, you really can't get it out.
I don't eat for pleasure; I eat for performance.
I am really simple with diets. I say feed your frame.
In wrestling, you've got to be an athlete. You can't just be a body builder; you can't just be this big strong guy who picks people up and throws them around. For longevity in the business, you got to keep your body fit and together.
I'm a father, and that is the absolute most important thing in my life.
If you want to go for the title, you go for the title, and you fight. You don't run away; you fight.
Working out is simple if you know what to do.
I'd like to someday possibly come out with a workout video or even a manual just to teach people the things I know.
I think the problem people get into is they want to go into the gym and look at other people's workouts, or they want to lift what other people are lifting. I started out really small. I actually did a lot of research, and I learned all about working out. So take gradual steps.
WWE is not just about fighting; we're about the community.
WWE is there for the soldiers.
I wanted to go into this fight business, and I wanted to go into it full force. So when you do something like that - enter into a new venture - it keeps you very busy.
I like to get the blood flowing and get as loose as I can possibly get. It's not very difficult to hurt yourself out there if you aren't prepared, especially in a Fatal Four Way.
The only way to survive is to get back up.
I want that fight with Brock Lesnar. I don't care if it's the ring, the cage, or in a street fight.
I love wrestling, and of course WWE is the main stage, but I'm happy to be with TNA.
I'm a product of amateur wrestling, and there is no one there to help you with matches or win matches - you have to do it yourself.
I've never been a politics guy in wrestling; I'm just someone who came out and worked.
With wrestling, we're still athletes. I train like we're an athlete as opposed to a body builder. Some people still have that body-builder mentality. But not from me. I do a lot of agility work and stuff like that.
You only live once, so you got to do as much as you can in the time that you have.
Everyone likes to be the heel. Everyone wants to be the bad guy. I mean, I love being the bad guy, but the crowd doesn't want me to be a bad guy. In real life, I'm too much of a good guy to be a bad guy.
Bobby Roode is amazing.
Everybody else has the same 24 hours, but I'm going to make the most of my 24 hours.
I got to fight off haters on a regular basis.
A lot of times, professional athletes say, 'I'm not a role model; I'm an athlete.' I don't mind being a role model because I know what I've done in order to make it to where I am right now. It's a lot of hard work; it's a tremendous amount of hard work. But in order to be make it to a certain level, everybody knows it's going to take time.
Traveling is a part of the business. I think it's really the hardest part of the business because the wrestling part is the easy part - something I love and enjoy doing.
When I was with WWE before, I was a big guy throwing people around - power moves. Then after that, when I left WWE, I was like, 'I still enjoy professional wrestling,' but some of the smaller guys look up at me and say, 'I don't wanna wrestle him. I don't wanna get thrown around by that guy.'
When I went to Impact, it was me proving myself on a daily basis to a lot of different people. I mean, I had matches with Austin Aries, matches with Jeff Hardy, Bobby Roode, Drew McIntyre. I mean, I wrestled everyone. During that time, I wasn't just sitting back saying, 'Man, I hope WWE picks me up. I hope they see me. I hope to get back.'
I'm not covering up. I don't need a t-shirt on to go wrestle.
Wrestling is in my blood.
Samoa Joe is great at kickboxing; he's super aggressive - he's tough.
MMA - for me, it was something that I needed to challenge myself.
I have a fanbase, and I have a large fanbase, and there's a lot of people that like me, and there's a lot of people that support me, and there's a lot of people that can relate to me.
I can't even begin to entertain another wrestler's perception of me if they don't understand what my fans look for in me. I'm different; I'm different.
That's why I love wrestling: because there's so many different people. I love everybody, from Hornswoggle to the Great Khali to Seth Rollins, to The Bludgeon Brothers. I love everything about wrestling because of that.
A lot of people look at me as such a nice guy; they don't understand how dangerous I can actually be.
When you get put in a position like that, to shave off the hair of the boss of the company, they're putting a lot of faith in you, and they believe in you.
When I head into the cage for an MMA fight, for that time inside the cage, I hate the person standing across the cage. I want to beat him up and beat him up to the point where he never wants to go against me again. After the fight, I can shake his hands, and he - we can be best friends. It's the same thing in professional wrestling.
Kurt Angle was amazing. He was the person who got me into pro wrestling. He found me when I was at the Olympic training center just wrestling, amateur wrestling.
Eric Young is phenomenal. Bobby Roode - every time I get in the ring with those guys, it's almost like magic.
Every time I go out there, I have something to prove. Something more, something different.
When people underestimate or think my success has come easily, that doesn't bother me.
I grew up with nothing, and that was my motivation.
Everybody gives Trump an extremely bad rap. He's a businessman, so he is not trying to rub your back and tell you everything is going to be OK. He is going to set standards and, when everything is in chaos, you need someone who is willing to do what needs to be done.