Quotes by Shawn Spears - Page 1

Talent needs credibility.
Shawn Spears /
Credibility
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I'm not just a pretty face.
Shawn Spears /
Pretty Face
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I've been the underdog my whole career.
Shawn Spears /
Underdog
Career Been Whole
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I take great pride in being able to work with anybody.
Shawn Spears /
Work Great Pride
Great Pride
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I think in my time in AEW, I haven't been put in a very prominent position.
Shawn Spears /
Prominent
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Bobby Roode is the kind of guy who will stab anyone in the back to get what he wants.
Shawn Spears /
Bobby
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My motivation level here in NXT has always been high. I believe it's one of my stronger attributes.
Shawn Spears /
Attributes
Always Believe I Believe
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I'll say it loud and proud: AEW has raised the bar. Everyone is doing better, because they have come along.
Shawn Spears /
Loud
Bar
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I believe in giving back to the industry of professional wrestling that has given me a great deal in my life.
Shawn Spears /
Giving Back
Life Great Believe
Great Deal
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When the bell rings in between the ropes, I'm in charge. No one can touch me. That's my time, no one can touch me.
Shawn Spears /
Rings
Bell
Charge
Ropes
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Tyler Breeze is an incredible talent. I worked with him a little bit in NXT, but not to the level where I had hoped.
Shawn Spears /
Breeze
Tyler
Hoped
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I believe in professionalism and I believe in putting on the best possible match regardless of the scenario for our audience.
Shawn Spears /
Professionalism
Best Believe I Believe
Scenario
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In terms of the coaching aspect and things like that, I've always been someone that prides themselves in helping young talent.
Shawn Spears /
Aspect
Helping
Talent
Young Talent
Terms
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I work a little bit of slower, methodical pace. I'm able to implement certain different styles depending on who my opponent is.
Shawn Spears /
Different Styles
Methodical
Pace
Depending
Implement
Opponent
Slower
Styles
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I have a lot of history with Eric Young, he actually trained me in the very beginning of my career. We go back a very long way.
Shawn Spears /
Long Way
History Me Long
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But this is sports entertainment, so things can change on a daily basis. For that reason you have to be ready to go at any time.
Shawn Spears /
Daily Basis
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I check all the boxes. You have a look, in-ring ability, the ability to speak and communicate. I have all that, plus experience.
Shawn Spears /
Boxes
Communicate
Plus
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I did things right, I never got into any trouble. I was professional and I carried myself well and always did what I was asked to do.
Shawn Spears /
Myself Always Never
Carried
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Now, I don't even consider NXT a developmental system. It's its own brand. So many guys were able to develop a following while in NXT.
Shawn Spears /
Developmental
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My first time around in WWE, there wasn't the WWE Network. We weren't as big. It was much harder to crack through and get to the audience.
Shawn Spears /
Time First Time Big
Crack
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AJ Styles and Randy Orton, I've never worked with them before. I don't need to give you any of their accolades, the world knows them already.
Shawn Spears /
Accolades
Randy
Styles
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AEW is history-making. When the chance presented itself to be a part of something so groundbreaking, I wasn't going to wait around any longer.
Shawn Spears /
Presented
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When it's silent or when that energy of the audience isn't there, you feel the bumps a little more. You feel yourself losing breath a little quicker.
Shawn Spears /
Bumps
Losing
Silent
Quicker
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All talent needs is credibility and the freedom to create. That is all. That's what will make the talent happy, that's what makes me happy to this day.
Shawn Spears /
Credibility
Talent
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I'm able to bring a great deal of experience to a company that is looking to build young talent, which is vital to the future of professional wrestling.
Shawn Spears /
Young Talent
Great Deal
Vital
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The day leading up to the Royal Rumble was pretty routine. I got up early, went to the gym, got a good meal in and then packed my bags to head to the Alamodome.
Shawn Spears /
Bags
Routine
Good Meal
Meal
Packed
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I don't quit and can't be broken. I have been through every up and down you can imagine in the world of sports-entertainment and I am still here running strong.
Shawn Spears /
Up And Down
Quit
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Regardless of what happens, when I'm seventy years old, I can look back and say that I did this the way I wanted to, on my terms, and I gave it everything I got.
Shawn Spears /
Look Way Back
Seventy
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If you are watching television and two guys come out and you are already able to tell what the finish of that match is based on entrances alone, that's a problem.
Shawn Spears /
Watching Television
Entrance
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In order to stay ahead of the young talent, you have to pay attention. You have to see what young talents are doing, and I see what a lot of young talents are doing.
Shawn Spears /
Attention
Pay
Pay Attention
Talent
Young Talent
Ahead
Talents
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I got goosebumps kind of thinking about it now because this is Tully Blanchard. This is a Hall of Famer. This is one of the greatest of all time, and he still has it.
Shawn Spears /
Goosebumps
Hall
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I believe that if you stay positive and you keep your nose to the ground and you keep working hard for every inch that eventually will pay off and something will roll your way.
Shawn Spears /
Inch
Nose
Working Hard
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A lot of people will say they strive and drive to be the best in the industry and I get that, but for me, I think I'm just pushing to be the best version of myself that I can be.
Shawn Spears /
Pushing
Strive
Best Myself Me
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The reality is if you tell people something long enough, good or bad, they're going to believe it. And for a while the picture painted was that I wasn't exactly a favorable character.
Shawn Spears /
Favorable
Painted
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Once I found out that I had officially been entered in the Royal Rumble, I took some time to myself to sit down and try to comprehend what was going to take place later that night. I couldn't.
Shawn Spears /
Royal
Comprehend
Entered
Officially
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But, a lot of people thought that I came into AEW to go right into the main event and right to the top of the mountain and get all the titles thrown on you and push, push, push, push. Not the case, exactly.
Shawn Spears /
Mountain
Thrown
Titles
Case
People Right Go
Event
Exactly
Main
Push
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I love being out there. as an audience member. It gives the audience a little bit of something different. Like, why are these wrestlers sitting in the audience? And why are they heckling at this guy and that guy?
Shawn Spears /
Audience Member
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A great deal of WWE Superstars, like Dolph Ziggler, Bray Wyatt, Baron Corbin, Sheamus, Braun Strowman, The Miz, etc., came from WWE's developmental system, and I've had the privilege of working with them over the years.
Shawn Spears /
Developmental
Etc
Great Deal
Superstars
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Behind the scenes, I'm not a politicker. I have a very hard time telling somebody they're right when I feel they're wrong, and I have a very hard time telling somebody they're good when I feel they're not. That's just me.
Shawn Spears /
Time Good Me
Hard Time
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I did commentary with Excalibur. It is an extremely, extremely difficult job. It gave me a whole new appreciation to how on point you need to be and how careful you need to because I was a almost like a color aspect of it.
Shawn Spears /
Appreciation
Commentary
Difficult Job
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In terms of being able to adapt to any situation on any given night, in any given moment and that just comes with nearly twenty years of experience and paying attention to the guys that I've tried to emulate throughout my career.
Shawn Spears /
Emulate
Adapt
Any Given Moment
Twenty
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If you piled in a car and you go to an AEW show with all your buddies there, you had a beer or two, and you get to yell at whoever you want, you get to cheer for whoever you want, you get to chant, like those moments are friend making moments.
Shawn Spears /
Beer
Cheer
Buddies
Chant
Piled
Whoever
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I've always said that if I can make 20 years in-ring, anything beyond that is just a cherry on top, so 2020 I'm looking to challenging and healthy so hopefully if I can do two of those things, I'm pretty sure it's going to be a good year for me.
Shawn Spears /
Good Always Me
Cherry
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I believe in providing an alternative for fans, and I really believe that the audience has wanted an alternative for quite some time. This is now the platform to give people exactly what they want, and I am really looking forward to proving myself in AEW.
Shawn Spears /
Looking Forward
Providing
Alternative
Time Myself Believe
Exactly What
Quite Some Time
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In terms of my wife, she obviously is a Monday nighter and doing very well. I watch her, I watch when she's on, and kinda give her feedback when she asks for it and she'll watch when I am on and she'll kinda give me feedback of what she thought was good and bad.
Shawn Spears /
Feedback
Good And Bad
Monday
Good Wife Me
Good Wife I Am
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