Top 70 Edge Quotes

To me, the best part of coming up in that, kind of the last era before it went that way with the FCWs or NXTs, kind of the farm system, is that, you know, wrestling Jimmy Valiant in front of 10 people in Cleveland. We didn’t touch. I think we did two things, but we were out there for 20 minutes.

I never had concussion issues. What I have is cervical spinal stenosis.

I think WrestleMania 17, everything’s subjective, but if it’s me, that’s the best card and the best pay-per-view ever and just because of the totality of it. From opening match to last match, everything delivered.

I fought the social media thing kicking and screaming. It can demystify. But it’s a different world now, and that is part of what we, as humans, have developed: right, wrong, good, bad, I don’t know.

One of the things that I wanted to do post-‘Haven’ is go after some shows I was a fan of already, and ‘Vikings’ was on the list.

It was never my intention to be an actor, and I don’t know if I’ll ever call myself an actor because I’ve always said that would be a slap in the face to proper actors, but it’s fun, and thankfully, I’ve had the luxury in my adult life that anything I’ve done has been fun.

I am an entertainment juggernaut.

As glamorous as WWE may seem, you’re probably eating at a Waffle House at 1 in the morning, and you’re probably going to see the Ring of Honor guys there, too.

I think deep down inside, most of the bad guys want to get cheered – I don’t. I want absolutely everybody in there to hate me, and that’s the mentality you need to have to be a successful heel.

With WWE, it’s a massive machine, and you will air in 120 countries and have action figures and towels.

‘Vikings’ has been so many different challenges, and some of that is, at times, you have to be big and imposing and violent and vicious, and then you have be pulled back and withdrawn and just more layers and more time to portray those layers, too.

One of the only things that bothered me with WWE and being on every week was blowing off so many great storylines so fast, just out of necessity.

Everyone realizes when it comes to fight scenes, that’s gonna be my wheelhouse.

I did two matches for WCW, for ‘Saturday Night’ and for ‘WorldWide.’ Scott D’Amore was booking the extra talent. I remember I was really torn about it. I was like, ‘Hmm… I don’t want to do that. I don’t want to just be an extra guy. I want so much more than that,’ but I was flat broke, and it was 500 bucks.

Two friends and I decided to get tattoos of different animals. My one friend got a bulldog. My other friend got a bull, I think, and then I got a shark. Two years later, there was a cartoon called ‘Street Sharks,’ and by happenstance, it looked eerily reminiscent of my tattoo. Actually, it was identical.

Wrestling has to be more aggressive. It has to be bigger; it has to translate to the back of a football stadium. With acting, when that camera is up close, they can see your nose hairs twitch, and you have to pull back everything for it not to look clownish. There is that different mindset.

I’m the Rated-R Superstar. I do what I want when I want.

I greatly appreciate that people would like to see me have one more match or comeback or, ‘Daniel Bryan got cleared, so why can’t you?’ I will never be cleared. Mine is a completely different injury. He had neck issues, but it wasn’t his neck issues that retired him, actually. It was the concussion issues.

In no way are King Booker and Queen Sharmell the power couple in WWE.

I own three homes. I drive a Jeep. I’m cool with that.

It’s interesting: I never got stressed before wrestling matches. I always felt completely confident that I had done everything I could do, all my mental preparations when I sat down and envisioned the match, so I never felt stressed.

That’s one of the things I always tried to do as champ. If you saw me at house shows, I was going to make you think I was going down. If I was wrestling Kane, I could lose. I’m wrestling Batista, I could lose. I’m wrestling Big Show, Undertaker, you name it, I could lose.

Wrestling is just a different beast. There is no off-season in WWE. It’s week in and week out.

People don’t look at the broader picture a lot of the time.

I was one of the innovators of the TLC Match; some would arguably say that I am the master of the Ladder Match.

‘Vikings’ is a very physical, tough show. If you see battle scenes, it’s us doing it. There are so many similar physical elements to WWE.

It was a no-brainer for me to go on ‘Mind of Mencia,’ I think. And actually, it was a lot of fun. It was a really good time.

I don’t consider myself this amazing thespian.

From a backstage perspective, one of the things I always tried to do in wrestling was maintain that I was Adam. Edge was a character.

I think the best promo guys make it sound like it’s not a promo.

Once the second season of ‘Haven’ rolled around, I really started to attack this acting thing and finally admitted, ‘OK, I’m an actor now. This is what I’m doing. This is my new career.’

Being at Wrestlemania 6, I remember being completely in shock and dumbfounded when Hulk Hogan missed the leg drop and Warrior hit the splash and got the 1-2-3. I was devastated.

You always wonder what’s going to happen in a Brock Lesnar match, but if you see Brock every week, it’s not as special.

I am the man that everyone is compared to in this business.

I think Ric Flair is a complete freak, and I mean that in a good way.

AJ Styles, he is very well established, very well known. He had a name that was very well known. I would think, outside of WWE, his might be the most outside-recognized wrestling name in the world. Samoa Joe as well. He could have debuted straight to Raw or SmackDown, absolutely.

I was never stupid with my money, because I grew up without it. So when I started to make some, I was like, ‘Okay, first rule of thumb, I’m not buying it unless I’ve got the money to buy it,’ so I have no debt.

I can excel in any situation, and like I’ve said, I’m not pro-WWE or anti-ECW – I’m pro-Edge. I don’t care about promotions; I care about myself, plain and simple.

I’m 6-foot-4 and 240 pounds, which is average size in WWE, but in the world of television and movies, it’s huge.

For me, Edge was just a character.

The only time I have exchanged gear with someone was with The Undertaker at WrestleMania 24. I gave him my kick-pads and my tights from that, and I got his gloves. It is pretty cool. I am glad I got that memory.

Every time I get an injury or suffer from a personal setback, that’s exactly what I do: I persevere.

Sometimes, taking a break and going somewhere else and, almost, for both parties, absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Hulk Hogan was my reason for getting into the business. He was this larger-than-life entity.

I liked The Trickster because he was The Flash’s Joker. I liked Solomon Grundy, too.

You can put me in a cage, on a ladder, in any kind of match, and I will persevere. I will find a way.

I’ve always just introduced myself as Adam Copeland. I never really thought too much about it.

I had no aspirations after wrestling. I truly just assumed I would retire, grow a big beard, sit on my deck, and figure out what was next. If it was nothing, I was OK with that.

I think if I would have wrestled another five or seven years, I would have regrets.

Chris Jericho and I were really excited about teaming together, but we didn’t get to sink our teeth into what we could have done as a team. We really wanted to throw it back to the glory days of Pat Patterson and Ray Stevens. We were committed, we were coming up with team moves, and all of the things were made to work.

The Rated-R Superstar was usually a vile and horrible human being who had some moments of being a good guy.

I always hated that ‘You Think You Know Me’ music because it never fit me and what I actually listen to.

Being the Rated-R Superstar, I have to live up to the reputation.

I like to be doing something creative.

There were a lot of surreal, amazing moments during my career that I’m very lucky to have had.

Whatever Paul Giamatti plays, Paul Heyman could also read for it.

Obviously, being WWE Champion was my main goal in life, but when I started acting, the main thing I wanted to do was play a superhero or supervillain.

I read to my kids every night.

I love Nakamura, but it’s a transition for anybody who comes to WWE.

I really enjoyed working with Rey Mysterio when we were up against Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit and The Guerreros.

I read The Flash. I read Green Lantern. I loved Batman.

When I was a kid, I said this is what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a wrestler.

In Canada, it’s beer, hockey, and then everything else.

Every tattoo on my body symbolizes a phase in my career.

Do I know A.J. Styles and I could have an amazing match? Seth Rollins and I could tear it down and have a classic? Yeah, if it were me at 35, not me at 45. And not me at 45 not having stepped in a ring for eight years.

I have stupid neck. Look it up. You can look up ‘stupid neck,’ and it’ll probably be a picture of my neck. Just do me a favor. Look it up, and you’ll realize that the WWE will never clear me to compete again.

Sometimes styles don’t translate. Rey Mysterio was a master of doing that. No matter where he went, Rey could make his style adapt. But not everyone is Rey Mysterio.

There are elements of myself in every character I do, just because you take from your real life experiences and sprinkle those into your character.

I can’t physically put someone over, but I can feel very confident in my ability to tell a story through a promo.

I’ve always said this: Edge is purely a character.