Top 45 John Morrison Quotes

If the path is taking me to a world heavyweight championship, that’s great, but all I really strive for and care about is putting on the best matches I possibly can.

The thing that I didn’t take into consideration is that acting, like wrestling, is a skill.

Millions of wrestling fans know me as Johnny Mundo, the mayor of Slamtown.

I’ve been champion of every organization that I’ve worked for. I’m something extraordinary.

If you’ve never been to a live wrestling show, you need to go to one. To understand ‘Lucha Underground,’ you need to watch it.

The key to good art is to make something that means something to you.

Hopefully, when people watch ‘Lucha Underground’ and WWE, Ring of Honor, New Japan, AAA, and any other promotion out there, they fall in love with pro wrestling. Pro wrestling, as it affects pop culture, is bigger than any one promotion.

My dream mixed-tag match has always been against the ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth.

I left for Fiji 36 hours after we wrapped ‘Lucha Underground’ season 4. The producers of ‘Lucha Underground’ had to bend over backwards to get me wrapped out of the season to leave for ‘Survivor.’

I’m really excited about producing my first feature, ‘Boone the Bounty Hunter.’ Boone is a bounty hunter that does parkour to catch skips.

Can I bond with people and live for 39 days without my Instagram account? Probably! But the real question for me is this: can I be happy doing that?

If you can do a squat and a pushup, you can build up to becoming a fitness guru.

I’ve always appreciated a creative approach to action, doing things that people don’t expect, tweaking things to make them different.

I can’t count how many times I’ve heard a wrestling fan say they don’t have enough time to watch ‘Raw.’ Maybe it’s less about not having the time to watch a three-hour show, but it’s more about the time and the patience. You can usually sum up your three-hour ‘Monday Night Raw’ in a five-minute conversation.

If your attitude is good and you want to have good matches and you want to be employed for the right reasons, then I think people start to see that and respect that and respect you as a person, and you can fit in anywhere.

Prince Puma is one of the most talented people in the history of the business. He can do anything. He’s so ridiculously talented. When you’re in the ring with someone like him, that means that anything is possible.

I know that there’s pros and cons to everything.

I think that Rey Mysterio should come to ‘Lucha Underground,’ and I hope that he does.

Nothing’s scarier than wrestling The Boogeyman.

When I grew up, my dad listened to all that stuff – Neil Young. Floyd. The Doors. The Beatles. Stones. So even now, to this day, it’s the music I listen to a lot of the time.

I was thinking, with the TV exposure I had with WWE – and it’s kind of hard to explain to people sometimes how many countless hours you are on television when you’ve been on the road with WWE – I was thinking that was going to open doors, get me auditions, and get me into a lot of high profile roles.

I’ve been a fan of ‘Survivor’ for a long time. I even applied for a season. I made a really stupid audition tape. For some reason, I thought if I spoke in a German accent, whoever was casting would think it was funny and put me on the show. But that didn’t work!

I think anytime you have an event for the first time ever, like a Super Bowl or WrestleMania or UFC, as the years go by, everything becomes more polished with promotion and bigger stars.

Working with Lucha and Mexico and all the independent wrestling I’ve done has made me an exponentially better performer.

I watch other wrestlers. I watch movies with Jackie Chan and Jet Li and Tony Jaa. Then there’s breakdancing and Capoeira – just anything I see that looks awesome that I think I could adapt in the ring. Just your typical Kung Fu, breakdancing, Capoeira moves.

Character is everything. The reason people watch sports entertainment is to see people who are larger than life, but at the same time, there’s something real about them.

Wrestling ultimately comes down to what happens when the bell rings, and it comes down to athleticism, storytelling, and characters – and what we’re doing in ‘Lucha Underground’ is the highest-quality wrestling out there.

When I see action sequences I like, I imagine what I would do if it were me in the fight.

That’s what defines ‘Survivor’: it’s the ultimate test of who you are.

If I had my career to do over again, I think I would wrestle under my real name, John Hennigan, because if there was some sort of brand test associated with professional wrestling, I would hardcore fail that test because I have so many names, it’s confusing to me, even.

My favorite part of working with ‘Lucha Underground’ is learning more Lucha, combining that with my WWE psychology, and taking wrestling to a place we’ve never seen before in the evolution of wrestling.

Wrestling is a business: the more promotions the better, more opportunities for wrestlers to work.

Johnny Blaze was my character at OVW. I had all these fancy fire catchphrases: ‘Call the fire department,’ ‘Get your fire extinguishers out, ladies.’ ‘By the time you hear the thunder, it’s going to be too late because the lightning will have already struck.’ That was all my thing.

With WWE, I mean, as a kid, I was watching ‘WrestleMania,’ and that was my dream.

I guess when you play ‘Survivor,’ almost everyone gets got.

I always liked ‘Johnny Blaze,’ but we announced it on TV, and it was under copyright by Marvel. Then I had ‘Johnny Spade,’ and that name sucked, then I had ‘Johnny Nitro.’ Johnny Nitro was one of my favourite names.

When you leave WWE, like, when I left, I was thinking, ‘Maybe I’ll take, like, a year off, and in that year, I’ll probably do a Marvel movie, maybe a couple of movies. I don’t know.’ And, obviously, completely unrealistic.

Touring is exciting.

I’ve been spending quite a bit of time writing, acting, and making films. Because I’m doing all this extra writing, acting, and creating short comedy skits with my friends in improv shows, I feel like that’s really filled out my confidence on the mic.

‘Lucha Underground’ really is the first episodic professional wrestling show. There are storylines in every promotion, but the way ‘Lucha Underground’ is crafted really is more of a TV show than your traditional wrestling show.

Out Of Your Mind Fitness is designed to train the human body to move.

Everyone needs to move – if you’re a pro athlete, a contortionist, a computer programmer, or just somebody who wants to play with their kids.

I can’t tell you how many spot shows little Johnny Nitro, like, pulled the chair out in the arena in Shelbyville Fair and did a moonsault only to get chewed out by Rip Rogers and Jim Cornette about it. I mean, I did years of it.

Lucha is faster paced, harder hitting, and more acrobatic than any other style of wrestling.

Wrestling, for me, is always an awesome challenge because you have the opportunity to constantly create something new, your canvas is always the ring, and there are similarities to every match that you have and what you do.