Quotes by Shinsuke Nakamura - Page 1

WWE, time-wise, is so strict.
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Strict
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When I was a kid, I loved Nintendo.
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Nintendo
Loved Kid
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NXT fans are hardcore wrestling fans.
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Hardcore
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I felt good in the ring with John Cena.
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Ring
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I really want to face Roman Reigns again.
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Reigns
Roman
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At 'WrestleMania,' I can show my 100 percent or more.
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Wrestlemania
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One of the purposes of coming to WWE was to wrestle with Daniel Bryan.
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Bryan
Wwe
Daniel
Purposes
Wrestle
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Sometimes I dance for concentration. I dance to release my nervousness.
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Concentration
Nervousness
Release
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After match, in WWE, I do not drink alcohol. I just drink a lot of water.
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Alcohol
Wwe
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I need to study English more. I'll start by watching 'Sesame Street' every day.
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Sesame Street
Sesame
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There are wrestlers in Japan. I think they think they can move to WWE, but it's not so easy.
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Japan
Wwe
Wrestlers
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Wrestling is a universal language. The moves, the facial expressions, most people understand.
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Facial
Universal Language
Understand
People Language Understand
Expressions
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My inspirations were 'Macho Man' Randy Savage and Andre the Giant. It was easy to understand their character.
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Macho
Randy
Andre
Giant
Inspirations
Savage
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I want to be on 'SmackDown' because it has AJ Styles, Randy Orton, and John Cena - a lot of dream matches I can do.
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Randy
Matches
Styles
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A lot of people misunderstand what is Strong Style. Hard hits? Stiff? I don't think so. Strong Style is a kind of philosophy.
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Stiff
Misunderstand
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Wrestling has its own culture. Every culture - Japan, Samoan, Indian, Korean - has wrestling, and wrestling is a worldwide mix.
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Japan
Mix
Worldwide
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One of the reasons to come to the WWE was to wrestle at 'WrestleMania,' but to main-event 'WrestleMania?' Wow! I live for this.
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Wwe
Wrestle
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Florida's waves are better than Japan. It's just an hour drive to the beach, but just once a week, I'm able to go to the surfing.
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Beach
Florida
Japan
Surfing
Once A Week
Waves
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Being here in the United States, English is not my first language. It's kind of a challenge for me, a big challenge for my family.
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Big Challenge
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WWE style is a much different platform than other wrestling companies. Each wrestler wrestles under strict rules that fans never know.
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Strict
Wwe
Platform
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Every characteristic of my character and my moves always came from my real life. My character is kind of close to my real personality.
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Characteristic
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I feel as if I accomplished everything in Japan, so I wanted to challenge myself. I wanted something new, so I decided to come to WWE.
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Japan
Something New
Wwe
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You have a good side and bad side, real side. Then I put that on in the ring. My character, my personality in the ring, came from heel stuff.
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Ring
Heel
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A human being has a lot of sides, like a kind of diversity, so it's like a good side, a bad side, a crazy side, a normal side, like a man-ish side, a woman-ish side.
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Sides
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I don't get nervous before the match. I try to act the same and stay normal right before entrance. I don't want to do anything special, so I want to act normal before a match.
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Nervous
Normal
Special
Entrance
Match
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I never think about pride. I don't think about stuff like that. I just enjoy the moment of my life. I think about just trying harder and continuing to find challenges to move toward.
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Continuing
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I'm not, like, an English speaker, so I have confidence in my wrestling skills, also, like, body language, hand gestures, facial expressions. I put all of my emotion in my wrestling.
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Confidence
Body Language
Emotion
Facial
Gestures
Skills
Expressions
Hand
Speaker
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For me, I like to be different. I didn't want to imitate another wrestler. I always try to find something from other genres, like movies, books, art, and musicals. That's how I made my style.
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Wrestler
Art Movies Me
Books
Be Different
Art Movies Always
Genres
Imitate
Musicals
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Around 2005, UFC offered me a chance to fight for them. But, at that moment, I was under contract with NJPW, and I decided to stay in pro-wrestling. It was a good opportunity, but I don't regret my choice.
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Good Opportunity
Regret
Ufc
Good Chance Opportunity
Contract
Offered
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Language is important, I know, for the TV show, so a lot of people watches 'WWE' everywhere. Asia, Africa... some people don't understand English like me. That's why I use facial expressions and body motions.
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Asia
Facial
Watches
Wwe
Me Body People
Me Body Important
Expressions
Motions
Tv Show
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I like to go surfing because I want to feel the ocean and experience nature, and nature fixes my balance, and this life is crazy sometimes, so it helps a wrestler's life because a wrestler's life is crazy sometimes.
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Ocean
Balance
Surfing
Wrestler
Life Nature Experience
Helps
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Most fighters are nervous before they go out there. Nervousness makes the body tight. I don't like that. I want to fight with a normal feeling. That's why I move the fingers, shoulders, everything. I try to move like spaghetti.
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Nervousness
Spaghetti
Fighters
Tight
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For a long time, almost 14 years, I wrestled in Japan, so I didn't think I would leave New Japan Pro Wrestling, but I started changing my mind. I wanted to see the other world. I wanted to change something. I wanted to be bigger.
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Japan
Change Time World
Pro
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Antonio Inoki majored in strong style. He showed real emotion with real technique in the ring. Hard shots that look like hard shots. But the important steps is the real technique from the real martial arts. It means detail is important.
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Emotion
Hard
Important
Martial Arts
Real
Real Emotion
Shots
Steps
Strong
Technique
Arts
Ring
Detail
Look
Martial
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Strong style is a philosophy for Japanese wrestling fans that was created by New Japan Pro Wrestling founder Antonio Inoki. He wanted you to show every motion and show real technique in the ring. It's important to use real techniques from real life and real martial arts. The detail is important.
Shinsuke Nakamura /
Fans
Japan
Martial Arts
Philosophy
Real Life
Strong
Technique
Wanted
Wrestling
Arts
Ring
Show
Detail
Founder
Martial
Motion
Pro
Techniques
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With Michael Jackson, when he moved, it looked like a martial artist to me. He was quicker than other dancers, but he didn't have muscles; he was just quicker and looked more in control of gravity. He looked like a martial arts master, so I tried to steal body movement from him; that's why I imitate Michael Jackson a little bit.
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Gravity
Martial Arts
Muscles
Dancers
Me Body Control
Master
Imitate
Jackson
Martial
Quicker
Steal
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Before I came to WWE, they sent me samples of all of the entrance music, so I told them, 'I don't use this,' and 'I don't use this,' and, 'Please mix music with violin,' and they would make samples, and I would give my opinion, and this would go back and forth until, finally, they made 'The Rising Sun,' and I was really happy to have that.
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Please
Violin
Wwe
Entrance
Forth
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