Top 55 Dolph Ziggler Quotes

I was a big fan of amateur wrestling, and I loved it and dedicated my whole life to it for 20-something years, and it’s not really a glory-getting sport.

I’ve made it clear – I’m not patient at all – several times.

People can pick and choose what they want out of it, but I feel like I’m a modern day Renaissance man of anything you could want me to do… except be six inches taller.

On a good day, I’m a bitter, angry, chip-on-my-shoulder type of guy.

They love you when you’re doing well and hate you when you’re the bad guy.

I don’t eat anything before, but I can still go kill it at the gym and be in and out in 45 minutes or an hour, even doing workouts in the sauna to get the blood and sweat flowing.

I always kind of did my own thing, but it got me into trouble a lot, so I started listening to what people were telling me to do to show I was a team player.

Getting the approval of Ric Flair is the wrestling world’s version of Johnny Carson calling you over to the desk after you just crushed a standup set on ‘The Tonight Show.’

For the most part, and even with Miz, the WWE superstars are so good to the fans and everything they do.

WWE has given me an out where, any days off that I have, they allow me to work on outside projects.

Theoretically, the road to WrestleMania is like an election year. The Royal Rumble usually has 30 people in it, which narrows down to 4 and then finally two. Only one of them can go on to the main event.

Some people debut and beat John Cena. Some people debut and lose to R-Truth. That happened to me by count out. So, everything is different.

When I was 8 years old, I watched ‘Saturday Night Live,’ and I always wanted to be on there and be an entertainer.

Dolph Ziggler is a name you’ll remember. It will stand out, and you’ll know it before you even meet me.

Whatever you do, take pride in it and be great at it.

That’s always the goal. If you don’t want to be the best or have the company on your back with everyone relying on you, then you shouldn’t be here.

I appreciate someone who stands out and stands up for what he believes in, because that’s what I’m trying to do.

Miz and I grew up a couple of minutes apart in the Cleveland area and both had dreams of being WWE Superstars and being the best.

Of course, legends can call out whoever they want and do as they please, but they can’t just show up and get handed matches.

I dare you to put me in a back alley with Randy Orton or someone like that. I guarantee I’m not afraid of someone taller.

I do circuit training – different workouts without stopping. I like having that stamina, where I’ve never been too tired to put on a match or go above and beyond.

I do have a personal life. I spend half of the week at home. One of those nights, I’ll go out with some friends and have a good time. I have a day and a half at home, and love to just sit on my backyard by my pool, read a book, or do some writing. That’s my vacation.

I’d love to be in the ring with guys like Goldberg, Brock Lesnar, and The Undertaker, as, no matter what they’ve done, I know how good my conditioning is. If those three can say the same thing, I’d love to go and hang with them because I don’t think they could hang with me.

Any comparison to a WWE legend or someone I’ve looked up to is really cool, but make no mistake about it, my ego is too big to want to be a really good replica of someone else!

I want to know why people are getting laughs. Why this joke works and why that one didn’t work. It all comes back to helping me be a better WWE Superstar. So I love it.

I’m someone who loses 80 to 90 percent of the time. Even when I lost, I put my body on the line and I told the best story. If I stood out, if my attitude towards fighting was different, I found a way to stay around and keep revamping myself and my character.

I go out there to steal the show every night.

I’m very adamant on social media about recommending comedians to people if they don’t know them. I think it’s so important to go see them.

I’m from Cleveland, Ohio. And I’ll tell you a real quick thing: we didn’t have a pro hockey team when I was growing up, so I adopted the Red Wings as my hockey team just so I could, you know, be amused and enjoy playoff hockey every single year. I really get into it. Detroit is my team.

I have more respect for amateur wrestlers, especially collegiate ones, than anyone else. It’s a gutsy sport with no real payoff except for knowing that you were better than someone else. It doesn’t have big crowds, it doesn’t have big money, but it is fun going one on one.

When something special happens in wrestling, it’s that much more special to me and for me to go, ‘That was awesome,’ because I’m as bitter as there is, so if you can get me to go, ‘Woah, that was cool,’ a couple of times, it’s a special show.

I’ve always wanted to be the best at every aspect of the business. Not just someone who does great moves or high flying moves but every aspect and can take control of every match in case something goes wrong.

I live to leave somebody with a positive experience when they’ve met me, and make someone smile for the day.

Nobody works harder than me in the ring; no one steals the show more often, and no one gets better reactions for a guy who’s not even part of huge storylines.

I started wrestling when I was five. I lost my first match and cried in front of my dad, and I never wanted to do that again.

I’ve never been in the ring with The Undertaker.

I get cheered more and more for one simple reason: When I step in the ring, I steal the show! I will not accept anything less from myself.

Sting can call out whoever he wants; he’s a legend in this business.

My first time actually appearing in a match at SummerSlam was 2010, and I was wrestling against Rey Mysterio in the opening match of the show. I was pretty brand new as Dolph Ziggler, and obviously Rey Mysterio was a well known superstar.

You want to be the best, and you hear a lot of good things about yourself, and then you find out that you’re going to debut as a caddy – it’s a little gut-wrenching, and it hurt.

I have always gone above and beyond, whether I’ve been given 30 seconds or 30 minutes, but at some point, you have to deliver and go to the next level.

There is a glass ceiling for everybody until you find a way to get that connection that Cena has.

My goal when I first started in the WWE was to stand out.

I, being the ham that I am, always want people looking at me.

When people are funny, I like to let them know that they’re funny. There’s so much negativity, it’s cool to get some positivity out there.

For the longest time, I was in random cold matches for 30 minutes and tore the house down for no reason, and everyone complained, ‘Why isn’t he in some kind of a story?’

You know what, I’m out there to give 100%, and I do what I think is best. I really don’t care what other people think.

I want to change the game and break through the nonsense without any Establishment help.

I have no desire to switch companies or go to UFC or anything like that.

I study entertainment and apply it to myself to one day become the greatest WWE superstar we have, and it’s a lot of work. So I write jokes and material every day… you have to keep people’s attention, one way or another.

I was a huge fan of Jon Lovitz, Dana Carvey, Jan Hooks, obviously Phil Hartman, and a very young Adam Sandler.

I would love to make my entire career as the guy who did not get cheered. Of course, I’m still going to get cheered by people who think they’re smart, and that’s fine – they’re acknowledging how good I am at my job – but I don’t want cheers; I want the boos. I love it.

I’m always trying to make myself a better sports entertainer.

It’s the WWE; it’s Vince McMahon’s show. He lays out what he wants from you. It’s not always going to be what I want.

I’m a huge Jon Lovitz fan.