Top 44 Finn Balor Quotes

When I first broke in, I wanted to be the best technical wrestler on the planet.

2010 was an incredible year for me. I won the Best of the Super Juniors, and went on to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title. That was an unbelievable achievement.

Obviously, everyone wants to headline ‘WrestleMania.’

I’m going to look forward to the future as opposed to looking back at the past.

Myself, Karl Anderson, and Luke Gallows are best friends. We travel together, we train together, we eat together, and we do a lot of things together.

If you’re going to learn about entrances from anyone, you might learn from the Undertaker.

I often find out, once people have trained, you can never really re-train. When you get trained, you learn to lock up; you learn a wrist lock and, okay, onto the next thing, onto the next thing. You never really go back to the fundamentals.

As a kid growing up, I was a huge gamer – The NES, SuperNES, N64, GameCube – and I had a GameBoy, which went everywhere with me.

I started playing soccer when I was 6 years old and started lifting weights when I was 16, so it’s not like I never exercised.

I came to WWE to be on ‘WrestleMania’ and to be in a ‘WrestleMania’ main event.

That would be a dream match for me to see Finn Balor versus The Undertaker.

I don’t really like to think too far into the future.

I was big into hip-hop as a kid, and when I was eighteen, I got into dance and rave music, which was popular in Ireland at the time.

I thrive under pressure.

With regards to the paint, I’m normally quite introverted and shy. I keep myself to myself, and I find that when I hide behind the paint, so to speak, I’m able to let myself go more and move more freely than I can without it.

You can kind of run drills and practice, rehab behind closed doors as much as you can, but there’s nothing that simulates being in front of a live audience with live TV cameras.

I can honestly say it was the greatest decision of my life coming to WWE.

Ireland has always been a nation of great athletes from the past: in the nineties, we had Sonia O’Sullivan and Steve Collins.

It’s a very simple answer, how to get my abs so defined. I have a very healthy diet of a lot of laughter. If you laugh all the time, you’re consistently flexing your abdominals all the time.

If I’m going to draw something, I don’t know the day before what I’m going to draw. It’s just very much an interpretation of how I’m feeling that day and what I think is the coolest thing in my brain at that very moment.

I grew up watching wrestling my whole life, so to get the chance to step in the ring that I’ve watched on TV so many times is a dream come true.

I heard Samoans have hard heads, but it turns out what Enzo Amore told me about Samoa Joe’s head was true. His head is S-A-W-F-T.

To go from a small wrestling dojo to the Performance Center was just mind-blowing. The sheer scale – I didn’t think anything like that could possibly exist.

I’m a big fan of seeing smaller guys vs. big men.

How I feel as a person and what I support as a person always remains the same, and that is continuing to support LGBT communities around the world.

The dojo system in Japan is something very unique. It prepared me not only for wrestling in the States and around the world, but it also prepared me for how to handle myself as an adult in the real world.

Japan took me in as one of their own and treated me like one of their own.

I found, going to Japan, working in the dojos, brushing up on the fundamentals, that’s where I really mastered what I was doing.

I’ve seen a lot of different training schools and dojos, and the sheer level of professionalism at the Performance Center and the state-of-the-art facility just knocked me for a six. It really blew me away.

When I came to NXT, it was very much a developmental brand.

NXT is its own kind of animal, and you’re never quite sure how much of that transfers over into WWE and into Monday Night Raw.

It’s been a bit of a struggle getting used to life in the States, adapting to a new lifestyle.

The NXT women are changing the way women’s wrestling is viewed. It’s an inspiration to be able to watch.

The Demon character is something I draw on occasion. It’s something that requires a lot of focus to tap into and really requires the right situation for me to sort of draw on that darker side of my personality.

I spent a lot of time in Japan. To me, I felt like my career was kind of marooned out there. I didn’t realize the extent of the reach that New Japan had in America and around the world.

I try and look at the positives in every situation.

I’m normally a really humble guy.

Johnny Saint is someone who I studied as a kid.

Everyone that watches wrestling as a kid dreams of being a wrestler for WWE.

I’ve always got a couple of tricks up my sleeve.

I’ve been put into a lot of situations that could be stressful. That’s really helped me mature, both as a performer and as a man.

I’m proud to be the standard-bearer for NXT.

My parents have supported me everywhere I’ve went: U.K. to Japan, NXT.

Hopefully, I can be a good role model for kids, and they can grow up to follow their dreams just like I am.