Top 44 Randy Orton Quotes

The older I get and the harder it is to maintain a six pack, the more I wish I wore a tactical vest and cargo pants like Roman Reigns.

I wasn’t some stud athlete at school that was destined to be a professional wrestler. I was just an insecure little guy that didn’t want to go to school because I had zits on my upper lip.

I have a wonderful wife that wouldn’t hurt a fly, and I think a lot of that has rubbed off on me.

I want to go out there and try as hard as I can to be the best in that ring. And for me, that doesn’t mean cutting flips and cartwheels and not selling punches.

I was forced, more or less, to go to anger management. I was either going to make myself and everyone around me miserable, or I was going to realize that there’s more than one person on this Earth. It definitely has made me a better person.

Deep down inside, when I come to the ring, whether it’s a non-televised event or TV or pay per view, deep down inside, when you hear those ‘R-K-O’ chants or those ‘Orton’ chants, you know, it makes me smile on the inside.

In the ring, you want every one of the 80,000 people in the building to know what you’re feeling. On a movie set, every expression you make is going to get picked up times 10. They kept having to dial me back.

I remember the first Wrestlemania; I was four years old. Nobody had any idea what it would become.

I let some people down, like Triple H, who had a lot of faith in me and took me under his wing. Ric Flair would never say it, but he loved me like I was his kid, and he was like a dad to me on the road. I’m sure I let him down somewhere along the way. These guys really invested a lot of time, faith, and energy in me.

Cena is awesome on the mic. When it comes to wrestling in the ring and the technical aspect, I feel as if I blow him away. I feel like I’m more of an athlete.

Wrestling is my first love.

I definitely had a big head, and I’ll be the first to admit that I made some bad decisions. But back when I was making those decisions, in my head I was doing no wrong.

I have to put my father over because he really taught me a lot, especially when it comes to out-of-the-ring psychology and how to react when you’re approached by fans after a show or in the airport. It might sound silly, but a lot of those things come into play when you’re playing a character.

All the fans that are aware that I’m a family man and I have five kids and the newborn, and they send messages on social media or a sign in the audience, or they just say it to me person-to-person on the street, I appreciate all of that.

One day, when I’m unable to physically perform, would I want to pursue more of an acting career? Eh, maybe. But I think my home is with the WWE, being on the road and wrestling in front of a live audience.

Being born into the business, I had the connections. A lot of guys aspire to be professional wrestlers, but you need to get trained the right way. And then, once you’re trained, you need to get to that next level, and really, the WWE is the only place to do it.

Even though the ‘Shooter’ character on TV is so close to the real-life me, I’m still playing with ways to creatively portray that character.

I rose to the top real quick, and I was surrounded by Triple H, Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels, Undertaker, these guys who were very well respected in the profession, and they wanted to work with me, so I knew I was doing something right.

I think the biggest thing – when it comes to injuries and stuff, travel has a big part in that, because after a match, guys hit the road, and they’re in a sitting position. They’re not able to ice up or do whatever they have to do therapy-wise.

I firmly believe that without the fans, I wouldn’t be where I am. I’m truly fortunate to be relevant for a very long time, and it’s because of them wanting to see more of me.

I’ve wrestled in Seoul; I’ve wrestled in Auckland, New Zealand.

I don’t have a problem with dives out of the ring, but there are a lot of these guys who don’t have anything to fall back on, and they’re not making any money doing it. A lot of these guys go out there, and they’re gonna break their necks at 23 years old doing things they shouldn’t be doing.

I ain’t gonna win no Oscars.

I had to realize that other people had an opinion that counted, and I had to realize that other people had feelings, and you’ve got to watch their feelings and listen to what they have to say.

Jake ‘The Snake,’ getting the chance to talk to him all day and just picking his brain – you know, he has his demons, but he’s an intelligent person, and he knows the business like no other.

At times, I’ll watch a cruiserweight match, and I’m very impressed at how they limit themselves with all of the acrobatics, but every once in a while, you’ll see a match where they’re doing things I couldn’t dream of doing, but you get lost because there’s so much.

I want to work with guys like Rey Mysterio, The Undertaker, Edge and have good feuds and do entertaining stuff, and I know I’m capable of it.

When Rock was on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ that’s what propelled him into the mainstream and made everyone realize, ‘Holy crap, this guy is really talented.’

We have the freedom of speech. We are able to hold hands in protest and stand up for what we believe in and have people hear what you have to say.

My schedule with WWE is all year unless there’s an injury.

I’ve main-evented WrestleMania a handful of times, but it never gets old. It’s the same with nerves.

I don’t take myself too seriously, as I think I used to years ago, when I was younger.

Tattoos are addicting, and I used to have this tribal tattoo, but I was never really happy with it.

When I won the World Title at 24 and became the youngest, I knew that was huge.

If I was gonna intimidate somebody? Give me the Batista build any day.

I had very bad acne growing up. I had braces for six years, from the fifth to the 11th grade. I didn’t look in the mirror and feel like someone who should be on TV.

I got to doing this thing with the Wyatt Family, and I don’t remember having this much fun in the ring in a long time.

I have a lot of respect for Brock. I was down in OVW with him, and I was there a few months before he came. We all knew he was coming, but when he came, he was humble and a fun guy to be around.

I probably had the most fun ever in the ring with Christian. And it was because he could just pick stuff up out of thin air and make it something. Neither of us were these big high-fliers; none of us were power guys doing these big, crazy moves. But the finesse and the things were smooth with me and him.

I got a bad conduct discharge, was at home for a few months in late ’99, and basically said, ‘Dad, I want to give wrestling a shot. I sure as hell don’t wanna go to college, and the Marine Corps wasn’t for me. And I need to make some money, so let’s see if I can do it.’

I love those trilogy movies, like ‘Lord of the Rings.’

I graduated boot camp with meritorious promotion.

Doing these movies I’ve done with WWE, it’s a different pace. It’s a lot of hurry up and wait, a lot of sitting around and like the day of the pay-per-view, when you’re thinking about what you can do, and then you get the payoff, the reward, that night. It’s just a different animal.

I think my whole deal was I didn’t think other people had a right to an opinion. I think the problem I had was, in real life, it was my way or the highway, and if people disagreed with me, then they were just wrong.