People will respect what wrestling has to offer to this world. It will take educating themselves on more than just guys in there swinging for the fences.

A true champion and athlete is never satisfied with their performance. You can always do more and always improve.

They say people from small towns have big dreams and that pretty much describes me. I had big dreams growing up and I'm still a dreamer.

In this sport, in this life, I think heart takes you a lot further than skill and technique... Just digging down deep will take you a lot further in life.

I'm far from a saint.

Most of my fights, I push the pace. I'm the aggressor.

You're speechless sometimes when you think of the support you've had from the first day I've started wrestling to now.

I consider myself a very driven and intense fighter.

I am in the Chicago Carpenters Union. They are huge supporters of mine and of MMA.

But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where was my place in the world?

I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.

What you need to remember is that there’s a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.

The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.

America has to stand by our allies. I think the tension that existed between Israel and the United States was very unfortunate.

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.

Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.