Top 50 Matt Sydal Quotes

Someone like Brian Cage, he’s a gigantic man who is trying to wrestle like me. That’s his mistake because I clearly hold the top card in someone who is wrestling like Matt Sydal.

When you’re in the Ring of Honor locker room, you feel like something special is happening every night.

Impact is just always improving at all angles. There is a lot of creativity and thought that goes into everything.

So I don’t think one type of wrestling is right and one type of wrestling is wrong, and I’ve used that ability to unlearn what I’ve done and really go back and get back in touch with that Dragon Gate style since now there’s a lot of guys that can work with that.

I watch Dragon Gate, New Japan, NXT, AEW. I love the Lucha Bros, The Young Bucks. Mainly I watch the guys in the shows that I’m on.

I have a little dojo in Clearwater called the Sai Dojo and I’ve just been putting in extra work there and so, when I get a chance to wrestle now, my comfort level in the ring is higher, my skills are sharper and I just felt like I couldn’t have a better time to get these huge opportunities.

You have to realize WWE’s contract. They’re not getting paid from advertising money. USA makes that money. WWE gets paid by USA, they get paid a lot of money, and the money increases every year. Ratings aren’t the most important thing to them.

I’m the best Crusierweight, X Division, Junior Heavyweight wrestler whatever you want to call it.

People try and make it a big deal, but a show’s a show, work’s work, if you haven’t wrestled in New York in a couple months, it’s always good to take a booking there because there’s a lot of great wrestling fans up there.

I have taken every amount of creative liberty and freedom that I can get and I’ve actually managed to push it. I would say being the champion gives me that freedom because you really get a little more carte blanche.

When I was working for WWE I felt like I was trying to make someone else’s vision happen instead of my own. And I think that’s where I became less true to myself and I think it showed in my work.

You know I’d be all about that if there were guys who could take my place as a babyface but there is no one that can step into my shoes. There’s no one who can do what I do.

Mostly the guys I worked with like wrestling AJ Styles, Jamie Noble, wrestling Chavo Guerrero, wrestling Rey Mysterio… As much as I try to be an individual or unique I can’t deny the strong effect these guys have all had on me.

But I really think wrestling with pure intentions just wrestling to be a better wrestler, eventually you will get there when the time is right.

I don’t really pay attention to WWE stuff as it’s just not for me.

I’m always impressed when fans’ knowledge surpasses me.

I don’t wanna say I’m anti-military as my mission is the exact opposite and I’m a unifying force. I’m there to show everybody that we’re all the exact same.

For me, as much fun as it is to watch wrestling is, actually wrestling is what struck a chord with me.

So, there’s plenty of good heels in the business. I don’t see guys who can get fans to rally behind them like I do. It’s hard. It’s the hardest job in the business and I’m doing it every single night.

Me and my girlfriend make all my costumes here ourselves at home.

I always stand behind the things that I do. I don’t listen to those who downplay things nor do I pay attention to those who grovel at our feet and tell us that we’re the greatest. For me, that is just noise.

I was down in Peru, and I was watching AAA in Spanish on my TV, and it just it blew my mind because they weren’t following any of the rules, yet the crowd was still there.

When I was at IMPACT and X Division Champion, my neck wasn’t able to handle the workload and after losing the belt to Brian Cage in a match I just realized my neck just can’t handle this anymore.

There’s room for five or six of these federations because people love wrestling.

WWE was pretty wonderful to me because I was able to rehab my foot 100 percent before I was released.

I am in a closed state where I’m just reacting and moving based on my instincts, knowledge, technique and years of experience.

All the people who were on WSX Season 1 are the life blood of the alternative wrestling business, and now the mainstream wrestling business as well. That is what Lucha Underground is doing.

There is this energy, a lifeblood energy that runs through Ring of Honor.

Wrestling has become its own thing separate from what it was in the past and now when people think of pro wrestlers they don’t think of Hulk Hogan, they’re thinking of guys like me.

I remember when I had just left WWE and I was wrestling in England and Germany, I could just tell that this influx of this new wave of wrestling was coming much like it felt when I began wrestling back in ’99.

For me, I’m not trying to be the flavor for everybody. But I’m just proud when people I respect or people that I want to be my fans are my fans.

I always love the locker rooms that I end up in.

Whether I am the Champion or not is irrelevant to me. I am not attached to it.

I worked extremely hard and dedicated my life to pro wrestling but the more I grow in ways not related to work, my work grows.

If you’re just trying to get by, you’re going to be left behind. The caliber of shows I’m on are incredible, and it makes me just want to raise that bar even more.

Brodie Lee would be a match I’d love to have. When he was the TNT Champion, I was sort of hoping to work my way up to that level.

When I began in Ring of Honor, I was very fortunate to get on shows and get looked at and get the experience. I was working with a ton of guys who had more experience than me at the time, like AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels.

I wouldn’t want to go see a comedian if he was using the same jokes. So I’m not going out there trying to do the same thing that and my body’s changed, my life’s changed and really if people have already seen me do something a 1,000 times, 1,001 is not going to impress anybody.

I loved wrestling when you had to get a VHS tape from a strange.

I’ve always been an independent wrestler at heart. You say I haven’t had a ‘home’ but a company is not a home, a house is a home, a family is a home and I have that.

I always wanted to be the worst wrestler on the shows I was on so I could just learn from the guys above me, and that’s a great way to be in your first few years of wrestling.

Of course, I was an insane ECW fan. You don’t get this deep into wrestling unless you are obsessed with wrestling so that was the final hook.

I use the right hemisphere of my brain and what I have is this advantage that makes me exceedingly interesting in pro wrestling.

For the last two years, since I left IMPACT in 2018, I’ve spent basically the last two years just trying to be healthy, be strong, be ready for when that opportunity comes and I sort of felt like that’s what I’ve been putting into the universe.

I mean I imagine I could have done a better job with keeping my paperwork and paying my taxes. For the most part, everything happened exactly the way it should.

At WSX the message was loud and clear consistently, even as a rookie signing a contract and kind of talking about things and getting into the nitty-gritty details. I felt like I was always given a lot of respect and in fact sometimes I thought they were almost tooting my own horn too loud I thought it was almost silly.

I’m always supportive of my brothers who have the guts to step in the cage. Pro wrestling is dangerous but it takes a special kind of courage to lock yourself in a cage that wants to do you harm.

I do work for Impact Wrestling, but I’m just a straight up freelance agent in wrestling. I can work for anybody at any time. Basically every company calls me up.

I’m out there to produce the best content – The most creative content I can do and express myself through wrestling.

So I always respected the guys who were trying to do it on their own without taking a handout from a big organization. They were trying to create their own thing, the DIY style, which is sort of always been my style, kind of a makeshift survival mode and really just kind of forging your own path.