Top 66 John Layfield Quotes

I’m a kid from a small town in West Texas, and I’ve gotten to travel the world. I got to live all over the world.

That’s one of my issues with the pharmaceutical industry – they believe pharmacy is a panacea for absolutely everything.

If we lose Saudi Arabia because of sanctions or by avoiding them, they’re going to China; they’re going to Russia.

I’ve always been a news junkie.

Most of my promos are straight out of Pat Buchanan’s run for election.

Ron Simmons had a lot to do with Rock’s success.

I feel very strongly about our flag and our country.

I’ve been to over 70 different countries, all seven continents. It’s been just a wonderful ride, and all that is because of professional wrestling 100%.

My dad was a banker, and I’ve always had an interest in it.

I really enjoyed working with Michael Cole. I think he’s a great play-by-play guy.

When people look at Bermuda, they see the beautiful beaches, the golf courses, the fishing, and that’s what they should see. That’s Bermuda. What they don’t see is the almost predominant black-on-black violence that is unfortunately pervasive throughout the local neighborhoods.

Look what we did with Cuba. You isolate a country, and all you do is impoverish that country.

I don’t know what happened to the millennials. I think too much coddling is not a good thing.

Texas was a hotbed for professional wrestling when I was growing up.

I do a mind game every day. I play chess, sudoku. I learn something different: a language, a few words of a different language.

Walmart has stores in almost every city in North America. When they go to same-day delivery, they don’t have to build warehouses across North America like Amazon has to do. It is so much cheaper for Walmart to use existing stores as distribution centers.

When people are able to live at home, they have more disposable income. That part is good for the economy.

You look at right-to-work states: a lot of car companies are relocating down to the South so they don’t have to deal with the unions or the legacy cost or any of those things, and that’s what manufacturing’s done.

The problem is the for-profit colleges. These guys are absolute criminals.

I’ve spent 7 Christmases in Iraq and Afghanistan with WWE.

Invest in good, solid companies in good sectors.

I’m happy about the fact that I got to do what I wanted to do since I was a kid. The fact that I got to live the dream that I wanted to live.

When the Miz came in, most of the hazing was me working. Me on the mic, me talking to him. I gave him as much advice as I possibly could because I thought he had the ability to be a good heel. But I’m not going to apologize for hazing him.

I should be a poster child for CTE.

Shawn Michaels I just think the world of. I would love the opportunity to be in a meaningful match with him.

The major thing of our government is to protect the people.

There is so much talent! Now, we may not have at the moment that transcendent next-level ‘Stone Cold’ or The Rock, but I assure you, they’re there.

A lot of people want to talk about me and my hazing. Yes, I did. I make no apologies about it whatsoever.

Triple H and I have wrestled many, many times, but never on a real meaningful stage. I would really enjoy that.

If you’re selling t-shirts as a heel – you’re selling them – then you’ve failed miserably.

When I got hurt – I broke my back in a match in London, England – I had to retire and became just a commentator.

I played a little pro football, didn’t make much money.

Government needs to stay out of nearly everything.

‘Stone Cold’ came in with a monster push as ‘The Ringmaster’ with Ted DiBiase. That didn’t work out.

You can’t use the tax code as a penal system because you don’t like what a country is doing.

When I started, guys were hazed, and for good reason.

I think The Miz can be a terrific heel. Miz enjoys being a heel, and I think he’s actually very good at it. People look at him and want to hate him. That’s what you want.

I wrestled all over the world, in carnivals and tents in Europe and in Japan over 50 times.

The ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative has been dismissed by some as not working. But America could be becoming weaker by ignoring what is going on right under our noses.

I’m doing cardio five days a week and will do anywhere from 30 minutes up to an hour each session, but never under 30 minutes.

You can’t be critical of Dana White.

I just don’t think our best are in politics. I think these guys are inept.

It’s been a part of my entire life: I’ve wanted to be a wrestler since I was a little kid. I don’t think that ever leaves you.

I draw the line between me and my character.

We’ve always gone to other countries where there’s been different standards and different practices you have to adhere to. WWE is like any other company, a global company.

I don’t think people realize how good Fit Finlay was. He was the best heel and probably the best worker I’d ever seen.

I told myself after my football career was over that if I ever started making good money again, I would invest it wisely.

I had seen the ethos of rugby, and I was very much an admirer. For us, it’s a beautiful sport, what I guess what Pele called soccer in Brazil. It’s so simple; it’s easy to understand. You can play five on five or 15 on 15.

We have a mass incarceration among minorities that is disproportionate to our population. It’s a travesty what’s going on with our mass incarceration specifically of minorities.

Why is it a badge of honour to say you spent 15 years in AA ball?

My back’s not great, and I can’t wrestle a full schedule.

Second homes are an investment.

Walmart is going to be very good at this e-commerce game.

We must deal with Chinese theft of intellectual property, though no one is sure that tariffs are the solution.

Did I haze the Miz? Hell yes!

I got the honor of traveling some with Kerry Von Erich. He was as close to a rock star as I’ve ever seen. He had a presence that when he walked into a room, it was like Elvis walking into the room.

We knew that AJ Styles might be the best in the world. We didn’t realize that until he got to WWE.

I always wanted to try Mt. Everest since I was a kid. I never thought I would be able to do anything like that.

The JBL character, I had had in mind for a long time, a character very similar.

I retired because I had to, not because I wanted to. The temptation to get back in the ring is very much there.

I didn’t have a ton of success as Justin Hawk Bradshaw, but it wasn’t a failure, either.

So if you ask those people who say they’re standing up to boo Roman Reigns because, ‘We don’t like him,’ ‘Okay, would you pay to see Roman Reigns get beat?’ ‘Oh, absolutely! I’d love to see him get beat.’ He’s doing his job because people pay to see him.

I grew up a big fan of the J. R. Ewing character of the ‘Dallas’ TV show, and I grew up around people who were very similar to J. R.: they had come into a ton of money. And they loved to flaunt it and loved to drive fancy cars and wear the big cowboy hats and nice suits.

I think people really liked Bill Clinton. They’d like to see him get elected, but Hillary’s just a different animal.

My belief is that the U.S. is looking at the world through a short-term lens of tariffs and elections, while China is looking at a 25-year plan of becoming the dominant global power.

I work with kids every day, and I preach to them how much more they make and how much easier it is to get a job when they get a college education.