Top 55 Samoa Joe Quotes

I had always been involved in athletics throughout my life.

Anytime I’ve travelled to the Middle East, I’ve always experience the very best in hospitality. They are some of the most kind and wonderful people I’ve had the chance to meet, and I feel that Saudi Arabia shares those same qualities.

I think, for an artist, when you’re drawing somebody who actually exists, it’s a much steeper critical curve, as there is an actual representation of that person out there. You can’t just interpret it any way you want.

I think something that escapes a lot of people is my entire career… I call myself the ‘often unwanted’ because when I got to Ring of Honor, I was told it was supposed to be one-off deal.

NXT was at a really exciting place and transforming in and of itself, and I find it’s always good to be around that kind of environment and those kinds of companies. It just felt right. It was a good fit.

If you are going to do things in your life and be responsible for your career, then be responsible for your career. You are responsible for your success.

I’ve proved I’m a formidable opponent.

Backstage, I do my own thing and have my own spots in the locker room, so environmentally, it’s not very different for me. But the backstage environments are vastly different, but that is mainly because of the personalities.

After I made my initial debut at NXT ‘TakeOver,’ they looked at the interest and merchandise sales and decided I would be better signed full time than not.

I was fortunate that I was born in an era where comic books kind of grew up with me.

I was a judo player as a kid, and I think a lot of the concepts in judo as a kid played over. It influenced my style and has been a center point of what I do.

I don’t care where you go or what company you work for – and I’ve pretty much worked for them all – WWE by far is the most brutal road schedule in the world. It takes a special kind of individual to navigate that and be able to thrive in that environment. It’s a challenge that I’ve enjoyed.

They’ve kind of backed off and allowed me to do what I do. I think that’s the biggest testament is that they know when to have a hand in things, and they know when to back off, let me work, and let me do my thing. During my time in NXT, they have definitely done that.

There has never been a company that has wanted me, which sounds insane.

I think when it comes to comics, I’ve been a lifelong comic book fan.

It’s funny how many people that I’ve come across in my time that have gone on to achieve great success.

WWE is very good at doing things that are advantageous. If you have the ability to go out there and get on a mic and be captivating, then they’re going to do everything in their power to support that ability and make it even bigger and seem better.

When guys are in NXT – not me, but the guys who are signed to developmental deals that are there – they’re setting up the ring. They’re tearing it down. They’re working every day at the PC. And it’s arduous training, man. Those guys go through a lot.

I had the greatest deal in the history of professional wrestling. I could work for WWE, anybody else that I wanted to, and collect income from every one of those companies, including merchandise. It was a really good deal.

John Cena’s match with me, the one that kind of got him hired with WWE, I remember they were there to look at John, obviously. He looked great – he was like the blue-chipper – and John was a good friend of mine, so I had no problem whatsoever helping him kind of highlight and do his thing.

You may not like the way I deliver the truth – you may take umbrage with the way I handle most of my conflicts – but that’s the way I do business.

I’ve thought of the independents as a stable industry for a little over two decades, and that’s because I stably worked in it, so I’ve understood it that way.

My first remit when I came to WWE was to help build up NXT as a global brand. It was a mission that I took on fully and was more than willing to attack, and lo and behold, here we are.

I’m a pretty big gamer.

As long as you’re confident in your skill set and what you can do, you’re usually good to go.

I’ve seen the struggles and the heartache and the pain that goes along with being in the fight game.

Not a lot of people get into Brock Lesnar like I did. Brock is every bit as intimidating as you’d imagine he would be times two. No, I mean, he’s a shaved gorilla. It’s just, he’s stronger than strong. I don’t even think he even realizes how strong he is.

If you were to ask me would I change anything or could I go back to the past and change anything, I really wouldn’t.

In WWE, they’re real big on letting you sink or swim, and they let you go out there, and they’re going to give you the stick and a live mic in front of a packed house and millions watching at home, and if you’re not prepared for that moment, you’re going to go down in flames.

Talent is one of the few things that can’t be created. It can be enhanced – it can be coached and brought out of people – but you can’t deny it.

My relationship with Shinsuke – I mean, he’s a tremendous guy, we’ve maintained our friendship for well over a decade, and he’s one of those incredible, rare, once-in-a-lifetime athletes whose ability transcends international border, which is something that’s not often able to be done.

It was not very difficult for me to adjust in WWE because of my previous experience. Stylistically, this company is quite different from other promotions, but adapting to it is part of the job.

In your career, to walk away champion of the Greatest Royal Rumble would be something people will take with them for a lifetime.

If there’s a game that comes out, I’ve pretty much got it, played it, and it’s sitting here in my room.

I tremendously enjoyed my journey in professional wrestling, and I wouldn’t want to trade a time or a place, even the low times, because it was those things that kind of tempered me and forged me and pushed me ahead to be here now.

For the majority of my career, I worked everywhere but the WWE.

It’s a surreal experience when you’re working with guys like Scott Steiner, Kevin Nash, and Sting. They were guys that I grew up watching, and I saw the heights that they achieved.

I’ve always made my opportunities, I’ve never been one to wait for them and sit around waiting for something to happen. I’ve always sought them out.

If Kurt Angle’s leg fell off, he’d hop twice as fast to make up for the loss of mobility, man. There’s no quit in him.

My experience at NXT was quite stellar.

I’ve always been aware of what I’ve been able to do and my ability to bring interest to a match and make people want to tune in and see.

John Cena is a name I will never forget, and in the Royal Rumble, he will be the first man that I eliminate.

To kind of be on the forefront of things here in NXT is definitely a big feather in my cap.

I think, in general, when you talk about great wrestling towns in the history of the world, I think Memphis kind of shoots up there into the top three if not the top two.

Myself, there’s people saying, ‘He’ll never find himself in the halls of WWE.’ It’s a narrative that’s fueled more by secondhand fan myth than what people feel.

I love professional wrestling, and I love sports entertainment.

I relish any chance to punch A.J. Styles in the face, because he’s a man I respect greatly. And I find that I want to punch people in the face that I respect greatly. I like to say it’s an island thing, but it’s not: it’ just something that I like doing.

When it comes to WrestleMania, obviously you’ll take whatever opportunity is put in front of you.

You’ve got some very unique individuals in the WWE, and it’s a completely different nexus on ‘SmackDown’ than it is on ‘Raw.’

It’s all about starting momentum, hitting the ground running, and starting out hot.

I always tell guys to get paid what you are worth and know what you are worth so that if you are worth it, you will get that number.

Intimidation is an unusual animal: it’s a lot about body language and understanding the human psyche. Knowing that usually a direct stare will crush most human souls, and that’s just the basic gist of it… The soul-crushing stare, the fatherly disappointment, mixed with a little bit of hate and rage – you’re on your way.

Anybody who has wanted me to go out there and pull some emotion out and act like we are going to get down, that’s what I specialize in. That’s fine. That’s something that I do, and that’s something that I’ve done over the breadth of my career. With Brock Lesnar, regardless of who he is, it was going to be no different.

I think Conor McGregor is a promoter, and I’m not here to promote any of his fights. If he were here in WWE, that would be a different story, but until that happens, I don’t feel like I need to address it.

In reality, you just don’t see many Samoan artists. Culturally, it’s just not something that’s really emphasized much – at least, hand-drawn art.