You can scout people as much as you want. At the end of the day, it's a fight, so you got to be ready for almost anything.
— Bobby Lashley
Wrestling has taken me on a ride and a love affair. I absolutely enjoy wrestling.
A lot of people in MMA do part-time jobs.
Money is not it for me. I love to travel and take care of my kids and be around my children.
In order to resist injuries and stay healthy, you have to be mobile and agile. You have to be able to have your body work for you.
When I train for fights, my kids understand, and they have my back. They are there with me.
Being in the wrestling business, it was a whole lot to deal with in a short amount of time. I went from amateur wrestling one minute to, the next minute, I'm traveling the world, and I'm on the road 250 days a year.
I was a part of the largest WrestleMania ever, so I know how to feed off the energy from the crowd in my fights.
Kenny King, his character on TV is him.
One thing you gotta take into consideration is that it's professional wrestling, and you know it going in. There's dangers to every profession, and our particular profession, concussions is one thing.
I've had no documented concussions.
When I started, I just put my nose to the grindstone, had great trainers and opponents like Fit Finlay, Arn Anderson, Booker T, Umaga and Bob Holly, and good things started to happen.
I know I can wrestle a lot longer than I can fight.
I'm the type of person where, at the end of the game, if there's 10 seconds left, and you need to get somebody the ball, and you're behind by one, give me the ball. Get me the ball every single time.
I like Canada. The fans here are great. It's always good to come up here with some good energy.
When I go to Japan, they don't care if you win or lose; they just want to see a good fight.
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.
If you play college sports, it's not like you have to - the next step in your career is another sport. You don't have to go into another sport. If you play college sports, you obviously graduated with a degree.
Anything can happen in a fight, and anything can happen in training.
I don't go on social media.
I don't spoil myself on extravagant cars or spending money on jewelry. So I save a lot of the money I have.
I train hard. A lot of people that I train with, they get blown away by how hard I'm able to train.
One of the best things I've ever been told is that it's better for someone to tell you to slow down than to speed up.
I hate to lose.
Pro wrestling has absolutely helped my fighting.
Any fighter, at the end of the day, that says it's not about the money is ridiculous. We wouldn't be training this hard, putting our bodies on the line, and torturing our bodies if there wasn't a payday at the end of the day.
I can go and fight, take one punch, and have a concussion and start having issues with it, or I can wrestle my entire career and never have a concussion. It's just a hazard of the business.
If people will pay to see it, I'll fight anyone in any sport.
My philosophy is, if you work as hard as you can, you give yourself as many opportunities as you can to be successful and lucky.
There's no secret I love professional wrestling. It's not just the money all the time, I love wrestling, and I love fighting.
I don't know which one is harder - going from MMA to wrestling or from wrestling to MMA.
We have to start encouraging people to step out of their comfort zones and start doing new things. Anything anybody does new, there are a bunch of naysayers.
Everybody wants to be a critic: a critic without the actual accolades to be a critic.
When you put wrestlers on TV, they're the highest professionals in the business.
I was a business management major.
Wrestling has done a lot for my life.
If somebody has something negative to say, I'm a very - I won't say introverted, because I'm not introverted - I'm a very, just, calm person.
My kids are my biggest motivation.
I love what I do. I love the competition of fighting. And I love to wrestle.
A.J. Styles is great - he's a great performer - so I'm not going to take anything away from him.
My dad demanded results. I wasn't expected just to be a student, I was supposed to get straight A's. My dad didn't want me just to play sports, he pushed me to win state championships in high school and national championships.
Some guys lock up when they hear the crowd. I feel the energy and take it with me into the fight. I've been in front of huge crowds and know to use that energy.
I'm a baby face in real life - in person.
I try to take care of myself as much as possible.
One of my first overseas trips with WWE was to France. I walked out of our hotel, and I see a little kid walking toward me with his mom. He gets a couple of steps past me and he stops in his tracks. I see his mom do a little bit of a double-take, then he runs over and just grabs on and starts hugging my leg as hard as he can, then he starts crying.
When somebody makes a decision on what they think they need to do, I don't question it at all.
Donald Trump was really cool. I think a lot of people don't understand him. He brings so much media attention to anything he does. He's a proven success. I think people should listen to what he says a little more than focusing on hair.
Whether it's MMA or wrestling, I try to find the best people and go after the best people.
I'm really considering getting into amateur wrestling and getting into more tournaments. I'm looking into going to do some Jiu-Jitsu tournaments. I'm looking into everything.
If you've never stepped in a wrestling ring, and you're with me, we can still have an excellent wrestling match, because that's how good I believe I am.
