Ricochet Quotes

When you‘re hurting after a match, the last thing you want to do is get in a car or on a plane to get to the next city.

Oh yeah, 100%, I’ve been an open book. Even my whole career, I’ve kind of been like an open book.

I really still enjoy Japan. I love going to New Japan. It’s great.

The coaches are there to bounce ideas off and stuff, but at the end of the day, they let us be us. We make our match, and we do ‘us’, you know what I mean?

I was born in Alton, Ill., and moved to Paducah, Ky., when I was 3 years old. I lived in Kentucky until I moved to Florida in 2015.

I have to figure out different ways to get into the moves that I do because everyone has a different offense, and I need different counters to go into my moves, and that’s more down to tape watching.

Wrestling can be anything… There’s some forms of wrestling that I’m not too big a fan of, but I’m not going to say it’s not wrestling because it is wrestling.

I don’t have any hard feelings against anyone at Lucha Underground.

To even be part of NJPW is an honour in and of itself.There’s people all over the world who would love to be here. So just being here myself is an honour.

We never had the most money, but my parents always did their best to take care of me and my brother. I had a real small but tight group of friends, and we would just ride our bikes all day after school and play video games, or we would actually wrestle out in the backyard.

One of my strong suits is finding and creating transitions between moves, then stringing combinations into series.

I’ve been friends with a lot of the NXT competitors for years, but just walking into the Performance Center alone is intimidating.

Confidence is what I’m looking for! Comfortable and confident in the things you say. I feel like, for me, that’s the hardest part, the confidence.

I’d like to go to NXT, be NXT Champion.

I normally did isolation/bodybuilding-style workouts. But since coming to the Performance Center, the strength and conditioning coach has me doing a lot of different workouts I’ve never done before, and it’s really shocked my body in a good way.

Working at home is always best. Traveling is the hardest part of my job – I say I don’t get paid to wrestle, because that’s the fun part. I get paid to travel.

I want to be a ‘coffee guy,’ but I just haven‘t started.

Luckily, here in WWE, they have a mega-awesome medical group. They’re there at every show. If something is hurting even slightly, they’re gonna ice it or something. They take care of us so well.