Top 70 Austin Aries Quotes

I’m kind of a skeptic at heart.

No matter who I am wrestling, as long as Bobby Heenan is my manager, I’ll be happy.

I get paid to put tweets out sometimes.

Eveybody likes to speculate that me and Austin Starr are somehow related. I always say that that guy never had a tattoo.

For me, from day one, I don’t think I realized that I was considered undersized, but I knew I was good. I had certain tools in my toolbox that other guys didn’t have, like agility, quickness and explosiveness.

As for my daily, it usually consists of a smoothie in the morning with banana, spinach and blueberry and veggie protein powder, then some kind of tofu or tempeh scramble with veggies. Later, I may have some type of rice and beans, salad with lentils, sweet potato, nut butter sandwich and another smoothie.

We live in a world with fake news being put out there. You don’t really know what to trust, and it’s a real danger to society.

I don’t have a bucket list.

I really don’t watch a lot of wrestling.

I think the reality of the situation is if you’re WWE and you’re looking for talent, you’re going to want the best guys out there, and you’re gonna look at Ring Of Honor, because that’s where the best talent is.

As long as I can get Bobby Heenan in my corner, then I’m a happy man because, to me, Bobby Heenan is one of the most underrated performers of all time. He’s in my top five of all time performers because I don’t think people realize just how good he was.

Go fail or succeed on your own merits, be your own man.

I just want to be the greatest man that I can be while I’m alive, and in that, you have to find the truth. Find the hard truth about yourself.

As for regret, more than anything else, my regret lies in that the WWE Universe never really got the real Austin Aries. Outside of commentary, they missed out on the chance to hear and see me be me, and do what I do best.

There’s nothing more I hate than a wrestling snob.

I like to think every time I was put in a high pressure position, I’ve always delivered.

Sometimes the best thing to do is to take a step back and get a little bit of a different perspective and re-evaluate things.

I think there’s a balance of fan interaction. I think sometimes there can be a little too much interaction. I know when I was a kid, the mystique of wrestlers and stuff was something that was kind of big, and if I got to hang out with them all the time i think that mystique can be lost.

I’m interested to work with Lucha Underground and as champion that would put me in the mix to work with them.

I think if you’re trying to be mindful of eating well on the road, it can be difficult no matter what. Your choices at midnight or one o’clock in some of the smaller towns when we are getting out of shows aren’t going to be the best choices for eating healthy no matter what your dietary choices or restrictions are.

I have put a lot of energy and focus into capturing the Cruiserweight Championship, but obviously I didn’t get the job done.

I love pizza hands down.

I’ve been Austin almost half my life. In almost every public setting, that’s why I’m there – to be Austin Aries.

Anything that is history making, then of course you want to be a part of it.

As I go around the country and I’m seeing all the fans in the WWE Universe, there’s a lot of young kids and they’re off to the wrong start, because they’re being fed the wrong food.

In my opinion nobody owns the patent on the art form of professional wrestling and the way it does its business.

It was always important for me not to be pigeonholed as a cruiserweight-style wrestler.

Chris Jericho is a guy who I grew up really appreciating what he did in the ring.

I’ve been blessed for 17 years to have a job where I make people forget their problems for a little while.

On the road, I’ll always pack a package or two of pre-cooked lentils, nuts, vegan protein bars and powders.

I’ve always felt that wherever I go, I have to carry myself like I’m a main event guy and like I’m a star.

I battle with things like depression in my life, I battle with things like anxiety, I battle with things like attention deficit disorder, and I ignored them all.

I always wanted facial hair as soon as I could get it.

Obviously, you’d like your titles to be defended at major pay-per-views. I think most fans would agree with that although it doesn’t mean that always has to be the case.

Really, since I left Impact Wrestling – some people say controversially – I’ve been really laying low.

When I was contacted about coming back to Impact they were obviously at a stage when they were really rebooting as a company.

You always have to keep evolving. You’re always trying to improve. If you’re at a standstill, you’re falling behind.

I’ve got plenty of people that would love to be ringside with me.

I have a backbone; that doesn’t make me a heel. That makes me the biggest babyface there is.

For me, I’m smart enough and have been around the business long enough to know you don’t really retire.

Sometimes it can be easy to forget where your roots are or where you came from.

One of the things people always ask me is, isn’t it expensive to eat healthy or vegan? It can be, but isn’t it expensive to live in a nice house or drive a nice car or wear nice clothes?

I’ve been trying to make it my own way in an industry full of heels walking around in babyface costumes, and that brought out the worst in me.

At the end of the day all I’ve ever asked for is to be allowed to succeed and fail on my own merits. Not based on what somebody else wants me to do or thinks I should do. Or, what they want me to say or what they think I should say.

What the general public doesn’t always understand is that wrestlers often only have hours to put things together, not days or weeks, except in certain cases.

From the moment I became a free agent, the WWE opportunity was the one I wanted. Obviously, there were strong plays made by some other companies, but in the end, when WWE offered me an opportunity, I could not turn it down.

I think that once I started connecting dots of where my food was coming from and the reality of that, as opposed to maybe what you think it is as a little kid, and the realities of how my food was getting to my plate and what the real effects of that are. When I started connecting those dots, I couldn’t disconnect them.

I think that weight divisions in wrestling is a little silly as we never adhere to them.

At the end of the day, you can change coaches and managers and players, but if there’s something intrinsic, something wrong, then you have to look at what the common denominator is, and, usually, you’ve got to look at the ownership because everything runs from there.

I’m not going to lie. I’d love to have the mic in my hand opposite of Dixie Carter in the ring and say my piece, say what’s on my mind. And if she’s willing to sit there and listen to it, I think it could make for some great television.

I have friends in other industries but if I am training for a wrestling match, I would turn to the best wrestler to train, not a football player.

I’m someone who likes to question things that are put in front of me, I like to think I’m someone who asks ‘why sir?’ not a ‘yes sir.’

I love food and don’t want to sacrifice my enjoyment to be healthy. You can enjoy food and can be mindful and healthy while you do it but it just takes a little time and effort.

Defending the Impact title against Jay Lethal would be phenomenal.

WWE is the biggest entity in professional wrestling and if you want to prove yourself to be one of the greatest or one of the best, then that’s the only place you can do it.

Pay-per-views bring conclusion to storylines and what has been going on from television. It is important to give viewers satisfactory pay off over storylines and that is why pay-per-views are important.

I think it’s always good to have realistic short term goals and then lofty longer term goals.

I was a choir boy my whole life.

No matter what lifestyle you choose, when it comes to eating, we should all as consumers have a choice to make informed decisions. We shouldn’t be misinformed or mislead.

I’ve accomplished every goal I’ve set out to. I’ve traveled the world, I’ve competed in just about every promotion there is.

I figure no matter what interview I do, the real good ‘journalists’ are going to find the completely irrelevant quotes that will drum up some controversy and stick it on their page to get some clicks and completely miss the real context of what the interview is about. That’s what we do nowadays and call it ‘journalism.’

Every time Samoa Joe and myself have stepped in the ring, we’ve always created a little bit of magic.

Guys like Samoa Joe, no matter what it’s been, what promotion, every time we are in the ring there is such an easy storytelling and psychology in there. We always had good matchups.

I’m not motivated by money and I never really have been.

I’ve always been a big believer in myself and that if you give me an opportunity I am going to make the most of it.

I’m very stubborn and I don’t like to lose.

I’m probably not motivated by a lot of things that people think I am.