I don't think anything can prepare you for parenthood.
— The Miz
I am a winner, and I always look to win.
My story was that I was egotistical, arrogant, and an absolute jerk to everyone who brags about everything - and I will - but I've been very fortunate to take everything and learn from it.
Whenever something's really hard, you always question yourself, and I had many times when I questioned myself, but I always rose above it.
I love baseball so much, ever since I was a child playing during the summers.
Believe it or not, a lot of people watch social media. I have 1.5 million people on Instagram, 2.5 million people on Twitter: that is how many people are watching whatever I do.
We had a show called NXT, and Daniel Bryan was my rookie, and I was his pro. And the object was for the pros teach the rookies what it's like to be a WWE Superstar. As soon as that hit the Internet, the Internet thought it was absurd: 'How dare WWE put Daniel Bryan as Miz's rookie? Daniel Bryan should be the pro.'
I'm just a Parma kid who lived in the Sandpiper and went to Normandy. If I can do it, you can do whatever you set as your goal.
I know how to make myself very, very cocky and annoying. That's my character. I enjoy doing it. People hate it. But I don't mind it when people hate it.
Daniel Bryan looks like he doesn't want the attention, but he does. He acts like he doesn't want the notoriety, but he does.
People have talked down to me, and that fuels my fire.
I think that is where my success lies - for whatever I lack in talent, I make up for in hard work.
The 'Real World' made me realize that I could do anything I want to more with my life.
You can't do WWE forever; like, your body will just not hold up.
Every time I'm a good guy in a movie, which is the 'Marine,' people are like, 'Wow, you can play endearing. You can play kind and nice and sweet but yet hardcore.' And I'm like, 'Yeah. Just because The Miz is a jerk and an egotistical maniac doesn't mean that there isn't a softer side to Mike Mizanin.'
I think when you come from a reality show, nobody really respects you from the movie industry or from the WWE industry.
I've been hit with kendo sticks and chairs; I've been thrown through tables, broke my ankle, broke my nose, and have had concussions in WWE, but nothing has hurt me more than when I stubbed my toe in 'The Marine 3: Homefront.'
A lot of the times, reality shows don't like people to break the fourth wall. With a docu-series or a documentary, everyone breaks the fourth wall because you're talking to the camera quite a bit.
I have all the accolades, all the experience, all the knowledge you could possibly want from a WWE number one draft pick.
Not many people get to say, 'I'm a WWE champion.' It's pretty incredible just to hear those words coming out of my mouth.
The fact is I'm always going to have naysayers. You're always going to have haters. It really doesn't bother me because I just rise above it.
I need to be highlighted. I need to be the main attraction of entertainment.
When you are an elite talent, you cannot allow anyone that comes into your 'eliteness' and take you down. You have to make them rise to your level.
I was on 'Monday Night Raw' - and nobody realizes this - every time you go from 'Raw' to 'SmackDown' or 'SmackDown' to 'Raw,' it shakes up your career; it shakes up your life.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
I kind of had that Parma, Ohio, mentality that after high school, you go to college. Then after college, you get a job; then you get a family. And after that, you just stick around Parma.
There's no one more talented than me.
Do I think I'll ever get the respect I deserve? No.
My success, I think it is due to the Mizanan family. Everyone in my family is a hard worker.
I was just a young kid from Parma, Ohio, and I went to college at Miami University of Ohio.
I wanted to be the dad that was able to feed my daughter, hold my daughter, really be there for my daughter.
WWE prepares you for everything in entertainment. It's the truth. You need a host? Get a WWE Superstar. You need someone for an action movie, a comedy movie, a drama movie, you get a WWE Superstar. Because these guys are the most well-versed, well-trained, and hardest working guys out there.
WWE is my first love.
If you come from WWE, you have a thick skin because you're hated on all day, every day.
The 'Real World Challenges' were amazing. However, Hollywood, back when I was on reality shows, did not like reality shows.
I remember the first time I stepped into a WWE ring, and I got critiqued, and I was told I'd be gone in three months. Here I sit ten years later, and I'm the Intercontinental champion.
I'm the type of person that doesn't quit. I just keep going and give my best effort because I don't want to look back on my life when I'm, like, 80 or 90 and say, 'Man, I wish I would have done this, I wish I would have done that.' I basically go out and do it.
When I was a kid growing up, I ate my vitamins, worked out because Hulk Hogan told me to.
It's a learning process, and now I know that even when you don't have a title, or you're not in a main event caliber program, you have to remain 'main event level' and always not allow anything to hinder that.
There was an interview that I actually listened to with John Cena where he says that he is an elite-level athlete - he is elite, and he needs to make people elite whenever he goes up against them - but I was like, gosh, as much as I hate to give him credit where credit is due, it is exactly right.
Sometimes the worst things that you can say really teach you a lot about what you can learn.
When I was in Cleveland, Ohio, if you asked me what I'd be doing in 10 years, I'd probably say, 'I'll own my own Mr. Hero, living in Cleveland, married with three kids.' Now I can say I've literally traveled the world with WWE.
People always sit there and talk about 'Talking Smack.' They always bring up the incident of 'Talking Smack.' What did I do on there that was so terrible?
I follow basketball, so I kind of know who LaVar Ball is; you know, I know his son Lonzo.
Whenever you're on a reality show, you're the scum of the earth. You have no talent, you're a nothing, and you deserve nothing.
Me, I never consider myself a bad guy. I consider myself a good guy. Now, the audience thinks differently. They love to boo me.
I'm going to do WWE until it stops being fun.
Sometimes you have go into a movie and develop a certain type of chemistry with your co-stars. Sometimes it can click from 'Hello,' and other times, it takes a few weeks to develop that.
Doing 'Marine 3' and 'Marine 4,' and kind of knowing what's in store, I knew that when you do a 'Marine' movie that it's hard days, it's long days and all that. You're tired, your body's tired, your mind's tired, but you have to do the acting, you have to do the stunts, you have to do everything.
When you're in WWE and you're in front of 16,000 screaming fans booing you or cheering you, you only have one take.
