Words matter. These are the best Johnny Gargano Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Growing up, I was a socially awkward kid who didn’t know where he fit in, and I didn’t have many friends, but I always had wrestling. I always had what was in between those ropes, and that always put a smile on my face no matter what.
You can never control injuries. Accidents happen; that’s just how things go.
I’ve had some of my best matches in front of 50 people in bingo halls and VFW halls and things like that.
My mom made me a Shawn Michaels costume when I was a kid. I wore it every day and ran around the house dancing like him.
A lot of people have said that what makes me stand out is my passion, my heart.
I’ve said many times how big a wrestling fan I am, but all my bias aside as her husband, I’m a huge Candice LeRae fan. I was a huge Candice LeRae fan before we started dating. I was a huge Candice LeRae fan before we got married.
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.
I am super happy and super proud that Candice LeRae is in the WWE Performance Center.
NXT is my life. Plain and simple. I’ve put my heart and soul into this company, and I truly love it and its fans.
Outside the ring, I am a huge Marvel fan and don’t hide my overwhelming nerd-dom by any means.
I do believe that Raw, SmackDown, and NXT are the three brands, and I think that people can come from Raw or SmackDown to NXT, and I think that people from NXT can go to Raw or SmackDown. It’s very interchangeable.
Sometimes you have to fall lower than you’ve ever been to stand taller than you ever could.
I was a socially awkward 8-year-old kid who fell in love with wrestling when he felt like the whole world was against him. That’s the key word: love. I don’t do this for revenge; I do this because I love it. That’s Johnny Wrestling.
I will get in the ring and pour my heart out. I’ll do whatever it takes to make sure that when the Cruiserweight Classic is over, the one name on people’s minds is Johnny Wrestling.
I’d love for it to go away and for people not to see NXT as a downgrade. I definitely don’t think it is.
When I was younger, I actually stepped foot in a ring for the first time at 8 years old because of my dad.
It’s always fascinating to me and blows my mind whenever I’m in a video game because I am such a big video game fan at heart.
We’ve got a bunch of guys who have been travelling around the world for over 10 years, scratching and clawing, fighting, just trying to live their dream, just trying to prove people wrong, just trying to show that we belong, and that’s kind of the essence of NXT.
I’m walking around our apartment right now, and I see tons of action figures everywhere. There’s Spider-Man stuff, old 1996 WWF figures, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Marvel stuff.
I’m a huge wrestling video game fan. I grew up on wrestling video games.
Wins and championships – I want it all. I want there to be no doubt who I am. I want there to be no doubt that I’m a winner.
The reason Tommaso Ciampa is NXT champion is because of me. I admitted that, and it’s my mistake to fix.
I’ve wrestled Rich Swann countless times. I’ve faced Akira Tozawa in Japan and America. Zack Sabre Jr. is another guy I’ve faced many times.
I’ve been lucky to combine my two loves quite frequently: that of Marvel Superheroes and Sports Entertainment.
Anything nerd-wise, I have probably collected it, and it’s displayed in our apartment.
I have a very open and honest relationship with the NXT Universe.
I’m kind of a smaller guy in my given profession, and people always told me I’m too small, so I know how it feels to have people tell you you’ll never be anything.
NXT is unpredictable, and they are not afraid to tell a lot of different stories and compelling stories.
If you watch the Cruiserweight Classic, you want different professional wrestling. You want guys who are going to go out there, put their bodies on the line, and show you passion.
The thing I try to preach the most when anybody asks me for advice – I say just be a good person first and foremost.
