Austin Aries
Austin Aries

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

Austin Aries
Austin Aries

I always say men's facial hair is kind of like women's makeup. We know how to contour our face real nice and give ourselves nice angles and make our nose look not quite as crooked as it is.

Austin Aries
Austin Aries

The connector part of the mustache to the beard wasn't always really strong for me. That's kind of how it morphed, and that's kind of how my beard comes in.

Austin Aries
Austin Aries

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.

Austin Aries
Austin Aries

I think it's funny, if you look at Brian Cage, the guy calls himself 'The Machine.' 265 lbs and spends a lot of time in the gym and eating chicken breasts. The guy comes in Impact Wrestling and instead of going after a guy like Moose or Killer Kross, who is he beating up? A bunch of guys half his size? Walking around like he's a big man.

Austin Aries
Austin Aries

I was the X-Division champion and competing against guys mostly my size, and I dominated them.

Austin Aries
Austin Aries

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.

Austin Aries
Austin Aries

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.

Austin Aries
Austin Aries

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

Austin Aries
Austin Aries

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.

Austin Aries
Austin Aries

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

Austin Aries
Austin Aries

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.

Austin Aries
Austin Aries

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.

Austin Aries
Austin Aries

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

Austin Aries
Austin Aries

When I first started training, I guess the fact that I was undersized, it just didn't register initially. Obviously, I knew I wasn't huge and there were some bigger guys in the territories at the time, but I guess I never looked at it as a hinderance.

Austin Aries
Austin Aries

Is it supposed to be a championship for a certain style of wrestlers? For wrestlers under a certain weight limit? I think over the years the one thing that has held the X-Division from being in a certain spot is that it doesn't have a definition.

Austin Aries
Austin Aries

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.

Austin Aries
Austin Aries

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.