Top 60 Tommaso Ciampa Quotes

Thomas Penmanship is my Dude Love. When I become very successful in WWE as Tommaso Ciampa, one day I’m going to pull out Tommy Penmanship and suddenly develop a split personality.

I hope I have a child with flair on my hands. That’s all you can hope, right?

I’m in Ring of Honor about four years. I was cast as The Sicilian Psychopath there and right from the start one thing that felt weird where I got signed after a tryout because Jim Cornette saw me and ‘Delirious’ Hunter Johnston and they really liked my promo. The match was fine, but they really liked my promo.

Maybe I’m young, but I still have an old school feel to me.

In May of 2017 they told me that no one has ever had 3 major surgeries in a 12 week span and returned at a competitive level. I returned to the most successful run of my career.

I bleed black and gold. NXT is home.

If one thing is very clear – in order to get my life back, there can be no Johnny Gargano in NXT.

If you are teaching your child to be content with a participation award, then you already failed at life.

There wasn’t a pinpoint time that it clicked, but I know for sure the end of Ring of Honor I started to realize that I became good at this. But I felt that at Ring of Honor I was type-casted and I couldn’t get out of that and I was asking a lot from them if I can switch my character and have certain opponents.

I am the best sports entertainer in the world. I always hear, ‘Sports entertainer? You’re a sell-out!’ Call me a sell-out if you want. I’m buying in. This is my brand. NXT is mine.

Going from the top ‘heel’ in the industry, taking some time away to heal my neck and allow the people to miss me and understand what it was they had with me and just how special I am, allowed me to come back.

I don’t think there’s a performer in this world who makes better use of their surroundings than I do.

I don’t think it’s any secret anymore that I have a family away from the business.

I enjoyed those last eight to 12 independent bookings, just took them and appreciated them for what they were.

I feel like, 20 years from now, if I can look back at a 15-year NXT career, it just means more to me. It means a lot to me to have that be something that, yeah, that was my stamp.

Ring of Honor fanbase is so real and so true. It’s like an NXT fanbase; it’s the same fanbase. You can’t just feed them crap.

I had finally come to the point where I was catching the momentum but then I had torn my ACL, which is kind of the story of my life where I keep getting injured from an ACL.

My Instagram took on a life of its own and became very different from my Twitter. I never used Instagram to post. I’m into fitness, I used it to follow a few people in the fitness world to see exercise ideas and or nutrition ideas. All of a sudden I felt like I was a part of that community.

I know that everybody understands how excited the fanbase is for ‘In Your House.’ It’s one of those weird ones right? It just stuck with all of us. Yeah, I think everyone’s gonna be happy with what’s been produced.

Johnny Gargano, to me, he’s the best professional wrestler in the world today. No doubt about it. Inside the ring, bell-to-bell, there’s just nobody better. So having him as a teammate for years as part of DIY helped me tremendously.

I was training at Killer Kowalski’s old place, and at that time it was the Chaotic Training Center but now it is the New England Training Academy, but we were kind of the feeding ground. Anytime WWE was in the northeast area that is who they would call. They would call them for extra talent.

WWE presents me with unlimited opportunities and possibilities. No dream seems unachievable.

Early in my career, playing a character was vital. I had to be Thomas Penmanship because I couldn’t be Tommaso because he is a shy kid, so I had to create an alter-ego.

I am the champion of champions. I’m the main event. I’m untouchable. I, Tommaso Ciampa, am the greatest sports-entertainer of all time.

I’ve never been comfortable on the top rope or launched myself into dives.

I am a god of professional wrestling. You should worship every step I take and every word that comes out of my mouth.

I love that when I got to NXT, it was a couple TakeOvers and now it’s more.

For me, my layer came so organically, ‘oh, he went and got neck surgery,’ and you see a bit of real life with the baby, my wife and home life. It opened up this whole new insight into me for the viewer.

I wouldn’t do autographs – I had a stamp with my signature with, of course, perfect penmanship.

I’m the guy who holds the most coveted title in all of sports entertainment, that’s because I deserve it! Nobody deserves it more than me.

It took me a while to open up to the idea that you don’t have to be a wrestler to have ideas. Jim Ross isn’t a wrestler and you will learn a lot from Jim Ross.

Whether it be a televised match or even a live event match, in this day and age, the Internet is so accessible and everybody sees everything.

That NXT title, in character and out of character, it means the world to me.

I always tell people, when I was a kid, there was four pay-per-views a year, and everything had three-month builds, and it was just the best thing ever. That’s my wrestling. It was like, if there was a way for it to go back to that, oh my God, I would be so happy. And that’s what NXT has provided.

There’s more anticipation, there’s more forgiveness once you prove yourself to the fans.

I single-handedly turned NXT into the ‘A Show.’

I wanted so badly to walk into WrestleMania weekend as the NXT champion and headline TakeOver.

Sometimes, there are spots that need to be filled and you just have to be at the right spot at the right time or the wrong spot and the wrong time.

I don’t know if people say ratings don’t matter… they sure as Hell matter. Like, you want to win.

NXT and CWC have truly changed my career, my life and my family’s life.

I’m big on active recovery and supplementation with fish oils and anti-inflammatories and whatever it is.

I feel like I do my best work when I am put into scenarios where there’s some in-depth story to be told.

Sometimes injuries can be the best thing that happen to a guy because it allows you to freshen up and allows the crowd to miss you.

I still get nervous before going out, especially with a company like WWE and NXT, but it’s different. I know how to wrestle, but it’s the nerves of performing and wanting your last match to be as good as the one before.

I feel great because I don’t wrestle anymore.

I did a thing for Progress for a tournament and I started using ‘Psycho Killer’ by Talking Heads as my entrance music. That became my thing and Psycho Killer was my pseudo personality and in one year it just took off.

Luckily, I’m not afraid of heights.

2020 has been a year that none of us are ever gonna forget.

I grew up on these long, drawn-out stories with four pay-per-views a year where things paid off. Everything was done for a reason. Then all of a sudden, I find myself in NXT and I get to play that out. I’m playing out my childhood.

The amount I got to experience in my home life really did outweigh what I was missing in wrestling.

The old saying goes, ‘Hit me with a cast once, shame on me, hit me with a cast twice, you’re a dead man.’

I’ll train three, four, five hours a day if I can.

I would never write anything off the table. But my goal is to build my legacy in NXT and, with my legacy, build what NXT is.

I just look at like, if I’m doing 200 plus dates a year on the road with Raw or SmackDown, or I’m doing a manageable load of 30 to 50 matches with NXT – I can do four years of that in the time that I do one year on Raw or SmackDown.

Yeah, I don’t know how many people are aware of it, but Scarlett and I have a bit of a past as far as wrestling goes. We were both in Ring of Honor at the same time, and our paths crossed when she was managing Matt Taven.

Shoot, me, if I was going to go to war and you told me I could have Keith Lee, I’ll sign up on that one. And you told me I could have the freaking UFC madman Matt Riddle – he’s like the new Goldberg – I’ll sign up on that one too. I love the guys.

I was in town working for Ring of Honor; my wife was in town. At that point in my life, I thought, ‘When else am I ever going to come to WrestleMania?’ I sat way up high in the stands, but seeing a couple of friends on that big stage, you start to think maybe this is possible.

I don’t give a damn, I am a NXT Superstar.

In my own mind, I don’t want to be the weak link of the team.

I have a very realistic style to my wrestling.