Quotes by Wade Barrett - Page 2

I stopped drinking alcohol, which probably was the biggest change. I used to be a very big beer drinker. Being from England, that's a very common thing.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Alcohol
Beer
Drinking
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When I was on Raw, I was like Julius Caesar, an all-powerful conquering hero who became so powerful that everyone around him had to conspire against him.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Hero
Powerful
Wwe
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If you have the same guys at the top of the card all the time, people get bored of it. They don't want to see the same guys wrestling over and over again.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Bored
Time People See
Card
Time People
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Wrestling was a part-time thing and I was starving doing it. When the opportunity came up to wrestle with WWE and come to the states, it was a no-brainer.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
No Brainer
Part Time
Starving
Wrestle
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Most fans don't realize 75 percent of the matches we have are non-televised. I prefer a non-televised show because it is more ring-focused and fan interactive.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Interactive
Matches
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After making repeated attempts to change my career trajectory and having those efforts turned down, my passion for playing the role of a WWE Superstar went away.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Superstar
Trajectory
Attempts
Efforts
Repeated
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I always dreamed of getting in WWE and becoming a big star. But it's not something you could ever guarantee. It's like a kid wanting to play in the Premier League.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Premier League
Big Star
Dreamed
Guarantee
Premier
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Even to get to NXT now - which is the bottom rung of the WWE ladder - you have to be really good just to get there. They generally don't take guys who can't wrestle.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Ladder
Rung
Wrestle
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I've done a lot of work with recruitment, which involved me giving sales pitches and things like that and spending a lot of time on the phone selling my services to people.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Recruitment
Selling
Work Time Me
Pitches
Sales
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I think the digital revolution and the opportunity for smaller brands to get big platforms now is fantastic for professional wrestlers and professional wrestling in general.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Brands
Platforms
Smaller
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I couldn't care less what anyone thinks about me. When I look in the mirror and see what's looking back at me, I'm incredibly happy. Nobody's opinion is going to change that.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Looking Back
Opinion
Nobody
Incredibly
Thinks
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The most important thing in the Royal Rumble is saving as much energy as you can. The guy who's going to win is usually going to be the guy who can defend himself the longest.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Energy
Royal
Saving
Defend
Himself
Important Thing
Longest
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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Back in 2004 I trained at an independent wrestling school and performed in front of crowds of around 200, then I got signed to a contract with the WWE to continue my development.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Crowds
Contract
Performed
Signed
Trained
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I think the way British wrestling lost its way in the mid '80s was that the athleticism and the sporting side to the drama kind of went away and it almost became a joke of a TV show.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Mid
Tv Show
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To me, OVW was one of my favorite periods in my career. I felt like I was on the greatest adventure of all time. I was there five months before WWE developmental moved down to Florida.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Adventure
Developmental
Florida
Periods
Time Me Down
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One of the most exciting parts of the Nexus and 'Bad News' Barrett eras were I had a lot of influence in the character and I had a lot of influence in how I was going to portray myself.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Bad News
Eras
Portray
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I'm much happier on my own. Being a member of The Corre, for example, I was obviously better than all three of those guys. However, I made the mistake of holding them as equals. No more.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Equals
Holding
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Sometimes being away from TV for four months or six months or whatever it's been can really help you. People miss you and are happy to see you back. On the other hand, people can forget about you.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Miss You
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One of the problems with being a WWE Superstar is that I literally get zero time off unless I'm injured, and usually when I'm injured I'm sat on the couch unable to move because I've just had a surgery.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Injured
Superstar
Surgery
Couch
One Of The Problems
Unable
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Once upon a time if you go back to the early 2000s all the way to 2014 all I cared about in life was being a wrestler, going on the road, performing in front of crowds, getting big, climbing the ladder.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Crowds
Life Time Way
Cared
Ladder
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I certainly didn't come to entertain the crowd. I am here to get my hand raised and make it to the big events like WrestleMania, where I can make an even bigger payday. And that's what I am going to do.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Wrestlemania
Entertain
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So in the pro wrestling world, everything is massively over the top and every reaction that you do in the ring is kind of corny if we're honest - it's not supposed to be serious - it's a comic book world.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Comic
Comic Book
Corny
Honest
Serious
Ring
Massively
Pro
Reaction
Supposed
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Traditionally, WWE used to shy away from that Internet kind of fan base. But I think increasingly, in life in general and every aspect of entertainment, social media, the Internet fan base is now massive.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Fan Base
Increasingly
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I think one of the things that happened to me in the last couple of years in the WWE where I realized how unhappy I was in that environment, was that I realized that I needed variety and balance in my life.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Unhappy
Variety
Life Me Balance
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For the majority of guys, their character is just an extension of what they are really like. I'm generally a pretty nice guy but I'm a bad guy in WWE. So I always say it's like an extension of my dark side.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Dark Side
Nice Guy
Bad Guy
Extension
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If you look back at people like The Rock there are times when earlier in his career he was doing heel stuff and he was so entertaining that people cheered for him. The natural thing to do was turn him babyface.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Entertaining
Look People Doing
Earlier
Heel
Natural Thing
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Even in terms of the technical stuff there's a very traditional British flavor that comes out. Our characters are influenced by our culture so there's definitely something unique about British wrestlers in the U.S.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Flavor
Influenced
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So, the older I got the more I started to appreciate balance and variety in my life, and once you get a taste of that returning and realize how happy it can make you it is very difficult to conceive giving that up again.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Variety
Life Balance My Life
Conceive
Returning
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There's certain elements involved in pro wrestling that aren't solely down to the performer. There's only so much I can do. I've kind of stopped beating myself up about things not working out the way I want them to every time.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Time Myself I Can
Time Myself Way
Beating
Performer
Pro
Solely
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When I was first in the locker room with The Undertaker and John Cena it was very strange. But it gets to a point that these are going to be guys you are working with you get over that pretty quickly. You can't be star struck.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Locker Room
Strange
Undertaker
Star
Guys
John
Locker
Quickly
Struck
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While I was working for the WWE in 2013 and 2014, TV deals had come to me, movie deals had come to me, sponsorship deals had come to me, and they were all turned down by WWE because they would involve me being taken away from their shows.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Deals
Sponsorship
Me Down Because
Involve
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It is a grind lifestyle and it never ends until you get hurt and then you sit home rehabbing for three months or whatever it is until you get back straight on that train grinding again, which is how you make your money in the pro wrestling world.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Grind
Lifestyle
Grinding
Pro
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By the time I got to 2015, I was sliding down the card. I was getting opportunities that I thought were kind of wasted. Like, I became the King of the Ring, which sounds like it should be impressive, but what it was followed up with was zero rises.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
By The Time
Card
Followed
Wasted
Rises
Sliding
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The fact is, there's a ton of opportunities out there now for professional wrestlers which, when I was coming through, weren't really there. The only game in town realistically was WWE, and it was very, very difficult to see yourself working anywhere outside of that.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Realistically
Ton
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I remember when I was younger and seeing guys like The Rock cut these promos telling the world how terrible they are. How they are a bunch of losers and stuff like that. He was so funny when he did it that you couldn't wait 'til he came out and started insulting you.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Insulting
Remember When
Losers
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Allow me to correct you on two things: number one, the reason John Cena isn't here tonight has nothing to do with you. John Cena isn't here because I destroyed him in our match, this past week, in Pennsylvania. And number two, you're not the leader of the Nexus, I am.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Past
Two
Wwe
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When I was coming through as a professional wrestler, as a young man in 2003 and 2004, there really wasn't much of a wrestling scene in the U.K. to take advantage of or make a living in, so I was forced to have to go to the U.S. and kinda make a living from it out there.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Forced
Take Advantage
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I felt very lucky that I not only got to be on Piper's Pit and work with Rowdy Roddy Piper who I feel is one of the best promo guys in the history of the company, but I also got to get interviewed by Mean Gene Okerlund who is another favorite from my childhood. I was a huge fan.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Gene
Huge Fan
Piper
Promo
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I think there was an opportunity as Bad News Barrett to turn me in to a babyface. I am not saying that I would have gotten to the level The Rock got to but it was certainly a chance for me to do something different and keep me motivated and stimulated by what I was doing on the show.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Bad News
Chance Opportunity I Am
Stimulated
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When I became King Barrett, the influence I had in the character was taken away. I was told, 'This is your outfit, and here is your promo that you have to say word-for-word.' Any time I tried to tweak the storyline because I thought it wasn't working, or because it wasn't me, I was denied.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Denied
Storyline
Tweak
Outfit
Promo
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If you go back in time to the '60s, the '70s, probably the early '80s, British professional wrestling was the most respected region of professional wrestling on the planet, and somewhere along the way that got lost and wrestlers were forced to America or Japan or even Mexico to make a living.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Japan
Mexico
Forced
Region
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I don't know about changing my mind regarding The One-Man Band. I've always personally found him incredibly entertaining, which is one of the reasons why, in the past, I surrounded myself with guys like him. I think he's a complete buffoon, don't get me wrong, but personally, I find him very funny.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Entertaining
One Man
Funny Myself Always
Regarding
Surrounded
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I couldn't just be good on the mic. I needed to be good on the mic; I needed to be good in the ring; I need to be good in my presentation; my ring attire need to look good, my appearance. Everything about me needed to be the best. I couldn't be weak in any area because you're only as good as your weakest aspect.
Wade Barrett / Professional Wrestler
Appearance
Attire
Presentation
Weak
Best Good Your
Best Good Look
Mic
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