I'm not some schmuck they just hired and threw down in the Performance Center and gave him an entrance or anything that like. I've been around enough and have enough experience; I know what I'm doing pretty much.
I like to think I'm a good mechanic for the company. 'Oh well, we sprung a leak? Call Ambrose; throw him in there.' I like that because I think it has really upped my value with the company, and I think that they realize nowadays, too, another Dean Ambrose isn't going to walk through the door anytime soon - or ever.
You have to take a certain pride in your work.
I've been around in WWE for quite a while now and before that had - even in Florida - I've been all around the world and seen every type of style in opponent; the way I was trained and stuff, I got a lot more tricks up my sleeve.
Where a new guy may only know one or two ways to do something, I know all of the moves, and I've forgotten more stuff than the newer guys might even know.
You'll find that all WWE performers, when they go on to any television show or set of any kind, we're more prepared that we get credit for. We don't get enough credit.
If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, I get to say I was in a movie.
I'm doing some more dangerous stuff on a weekly basis than professional stunt men are doing.
To be in an Intercontinental title match at WrestleMania, that is the stuff dreams are made of.
It is hard for me to understand I am on television and people around the world watch me every week in a country I have never even been to.
If you're really good at doing what you do, good things will come.
The thing is that, not only do you learn so much about being in front of a camera and stuff being on 'Monday Night RAW,' but at the same time, I'm not really acting on 'Monday Night RAW.'
I just go out there and be myself and turn up the voltage a little bit for entertainment value.
'Terminator' is one of my favorite movies.
I kind of miss that whole NXT thing. When I was there, it was Florida Championship Wrestling with Seth Rollins and the other guys who were there. I wrestled on, like, local-access Florida TV in front of 30 people. It was a tiny little situation.
I'm really into rock climbing and hiking and stuff.
I always take pride in the fact that nobody can mess with me, and I never let anybody mess with me my entire life.
I may not be the biggest guy in the world or strongest guy in the world. I don't have those gifts. But I will take more punishment, and I'm willing to withstand more abuse.
In the back of my mind. I always knew WWE was where I should be and where I would end up. Or where I could end up. Where I deep-down wanted to end up.
I keep myself flexible; I just compete at my normal body weight.
