Top 55 Daniel Bryan Quotes

I’ve always thought Shawn Michaels’s story is fascinating.

The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It’s just the worst.

I don’t want to live my life to entertain other people. I have other things that I’d like to do.

My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.

I’m bigger now than when I was eating meat. My lifts in the gym are better. I’m in better shape.

I was very good in school, and my parents really would have really liked me to go to college. Instead, I went on this random journey to go be a professional wrestler.

I spent a lot of time over in England wrestling at Butlins holiday camps for Brian Dixon and All Star Wrestling.

I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there’s something wrong, you try to fix it.

In combat sports, personalities are what draw.

When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, ‘This I need to do different, this I need to do different,’ and so if there comes a point in time where I’m like, ‘Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,’ I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.

I went from being a guy who was sparingly being used on television to being the World Heavyweight Champion and the focus of a lot of the storylines on Smackdown.

As you write about your life, there’s a lot of things that you think about that you regret. It’s interesting, because one of the things I regret the most is spending so much time focused on wrestling as opposed to focusing on my family.

When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.

That is one of the coolest things about WWE and wrestling in general. The fans have this very unique voice and this very unique power, and in no other sport and no other form of entertainment can the fans make their voices heard and it effect change.

I think fans always want something new, but they want somebody who can deliver – to go out there and really entertain them and have good matches.

People who like hard-hitting wrestling and action, they’ll like me.

I don’t want to be away from wrestling even a little.

Sometimes, things just fall into your lap, and that’s pretty incredible.

I’ve always respected and appreciated Punk, but we never really hung out. We came from the same route, but we didn’t necessarily hang out in the same circles. I’ve always had a great appreciation and respect for his hard work.

I have to look at my career as ‘it was what it was,’ but I do wish there was more of it.

My brain is – essentially, you take any college football player in the country, because I have had multiple, multiple concussions. I had 10 documented concussions, four post-concussion seizures and so, but, with that said, my brain is no worse than your average college football player’s brain, right?

My biggest concern with the whole deal with ‘Total Divas’ and with WWE – and, you know, they want you to be engaged with social media and all this kind of stuff – I don’t want to live my life to entertain other people.

If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.

I don’t do really well in cities, which is crazy given that we’re flying in and out of these major cities every week.

I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.

I’ve lifted weights ever since I was a teenager, but I started going more towards the Olympic weightlifting style, which is clean and jerk.

I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.

A lot of people thought you couldn’t be a top-level athlete as a vegan, but people like Mac Danzig and Jake Shields are proving that’s wrong. And it’s better for me as a performer.

I always think of it in terms of music. You’re not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it’s different. You can’t always do it until the very end, and that’s a hard reality of sports.

Part of me wants to stay involved in wrestling, because I love it. But the thing I loved most about it was the wrestling part of it. I didn’t get into it to be famous or to be a TV star: I got into it because I loved the act of wrestling.

I’m definitely an underdog.

Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There’s no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl.

If you watch dogs play, they run and they fight, but they don’t fight to hurt each other. They just play. And that’s been me my entire life.

I would define the new aspects of fatherhood like this: It is 75 percent amazing and 25 percent demoralizing. I think any new parent can understand exactly what I’m talking about.

The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it’s really hard when you’ve got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.

Sometimes there’s cities where it’s just hard to find healthy food. You just have to be prepared.

Being a bad guy is fun for me.

Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you’re tired, and you can do nothing about it – that’s, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.

One of the wonderful things about wrestling, to me, is that you can protect people who have had head injuries.

If it weren’t for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn’t even know my name. If I had to rely on ‘Pro Wrestling Illustrated’ to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

With ladder matches, you can’t expect anything other than craziness.

I like Everton. If I’m going to cheer for that kind of football team, I’m going to cheer for Everton. But the Seahawks are my passion.

I’m pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.

My health is 100% more important than coming back to wrestling. Being a good father is more important than going out there and expounding on my belief that doing more hammerlocks in wrestling is good for the business!

My passion is the wrestling.

I wasn’t a great athlete.

WWE was an opportunity to wrestle in front of thousands – in 2013, I did 227 matches, and almost all of them were in front of more than three or four thousand people, with a high of 70,000 plus. It was an incredible experience to be part of that.

With my history of concussions, the WWE wants to protect me, so I’ve had to take a lot of neurological testing.

I always feel like I wasn’t the best trainer, because I’m really good at teaching people stuff, but I’m not good if people aren’t super psyched – if they’re not like me.

I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it’s a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.

My diet is very kale-heavy. It’s so nutrient-dense. I stay away from fake processed stuff.

I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.

I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it’s a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.

I am a big Seth Rollins fan and have been for a long period of time.

To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you’re eventually going to be left behind.