I was loving being the champion, and I wasn't listening to my body. I almost felt like I was untouchable in a way - that I could just keep going and everything would be OK.
When Vince McMahon said I was going to be a future world champion, he didn't say when.
I volunteered to join Mr. Trump's campaign because he is a champion of working families, not Washington-Wall Street elites.
When I was Cedrick Von Haussen, the champion of Liechtenstein, I was only 18 years old. I was super, duper young. I started traveling around for wrestling when I was 16, so I had only been wrestling a few years at that point.
My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.
Never in my wildest dreams did I set the goal to be the longest-reigning tag-team champion.
I think Cormier's one of the greatest to ever do it. Two-time, two-division world champion.
I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working harder than everybody else. You're making the commitment, and you're making the sacrifices. If it were easy, everybody would be able to do it. Everybody would be able to be world champion, but everybody can't be. Everybody doesn't have it in them.
If you want to be that world champion, you have to be willing to beat anybody on this planet - no strings attached.
When I see Big E, I clearly see someone who could be world champion. The guy is on another level.
I dreamed of becoming a world champion, I dreamed of becoming France's champion.
When I first came in, I won a world championship pretty fast. Then I worked with John Morrison and Daniel Bryan, became King of the Ring, went back to 'SmackDown,' became the world champion again, won the Rumble, did a lot of things, went away after an injury.
Who would have ever thought that, within a couple months of getting into the WWE, that I'd be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then, nine months after getting here, actually being the world champion.
Ever since I was 3 years old, I wanted to be WWE champion. I got that belt during WrestleMania 31, and I want it back. It's what drives me.
While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift someone's burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone.
I have the most loyal fans that have been with me since I was 19 years old, when I was just a young guy becoming a world champion.
My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a record.