89 Quotes By - Christopher Daniels | Status Free Download
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89 Quotes By - Christopher Daniels | Instagram Status Free Download
With imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, I went out there and wanted to be Shawn Michaels 2.
— Christopher Daniels
Talent is going to rise to the top, whether they come from TNA or from outside.
— Christopher Daniels
There are times when you'll be up in the spotlight at the very top of the show, and you get put back down in the mix because the company is trying to keep everybody fresh and interested, and one guy can't be stuck at the top of the card forever.
— Christopher Daniels
When I first started training to be a wrestler I was also trying my hand at acting. I was trying to get into the Chicago theater scene. It was tougher to get into the theater scene than I thought and I almost gave wrestling a try as an afterthought.
— Christopher Daniels
I think the best wrestlers in the world are the ones who grow up watching it and have a love for it before they learn it's a business. You can tell the difference between the guys who grow up watching wrestling versus the guys who get into it as an opportunity to make a living.
— Christopher Daniels
TNA had a video game that I was in. I actually did mo-cap for that game as well.
— Christopher Daniels
I mean, it's very tough, especially on the independent scene, just to sort of stand out, and catch the attention of TNA, of Ring of Honor, of WWE.
— Christopher Daniels
Fans that are excited and involved in the action can add an atmosphere that makes wrestling in front of them a great experience.
— Christopher Daniels
I've always said that I'd continue to wrestle until it wasn't fun for me anymore. I'm still in great shape and until I can't compete at a top level, there's no reason for me to consider retirement yet.
— Christopher Daniels
I'm always happy when I get a chance to go over to Japan just because I feel like, if I can have good matches with the Japanese and show them that at this point in my career I'm still willing to go out there and put it on the line, I feel like it's a positive step in my career.
— Christopher Daniels
Well, I think at this point, having won the championships that I aimed to win in my career, now the opportunities to wrestle different wrestlers is sort of the carrot that is dangling.
— Christopher Daniels
I've done a lot of ladder matches in my career and usually you come out a little more sore than you would in a regular match.
— Christopher Daniels
I'm one of the guys, in addition to being a wrestler, I'm also one of the guys behind the scenes that's sort of trying to guide the younger talent, give them the benefit of my experience in television wrestling.
— Christopher Daniels
I still, to this day, get people talking about Curry Man; for a character that hasn't wrestled, technically, since 2008. So, it's cool to think that that part of my career is still respected and enjoyed and it's awesome.
— Christopher Daniels
I made a joke to my wife that if this acting thing doesn't work out I can always be a pro wrestler, as a joke. She found out about a school that was about thirty minutes from where we lived, and she made the appointment for me.
— Christopher Daniels
I've teamed with AJ Styles, with Matt Sydal, with Donovan Morgan, with Elix Skipper.
— Christopher Daniels
I've gone into cage matches, I've gone into Ultimate X, and I've said this before: I know exactly what I've signed up for, and I'm not afraid of anything in front of me, and I'm willing to do anything and whatever it takes to come out with my hand raised.
— Christopher Daniels
Barring wacky nonsense, I'm going to end my career in a Ring of Honor ring. And that to me is fine. It's poetic justice.
— Christopher Daniels
I thought when Samoa Joe won the World Title was a special night. That was an instance where TNA sort of got out of it's own way and let the competitors speak for themselves.
— Christopher Daniels
I felt like the situation in Ring of Honor for me was always going to be better than anything TNA could offer.
— Christopher Daniels
I grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina where Fort Bragg is, basically where the Mid Atlantic territories were sort of based out of the Carolinas. So I grew up watching guys like Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes and the Road Warriors.
— Christopher Daniels
I started training in January in 1993 and my first match was in April of that same year.
— Christopher Daniels
The best thing TNA has been doing, every step we take has been a step forward.
— Christopher Daniels
It's all performance and my acting background made me very comfortable in front of people, in front of cameras. It helped me think on my feet in front of a crowd.
— Christopher Daniels
As long as we concentrate on putting out great wrestling, I feel like that's going to benefit us.
— Christopher Daniels
When you're training to be a pro wrestler, you don't think about these things like video games and action figures and things like that, but when those opportunities come along, it sort of validates all the hard work that you put into the ring.
— Christopher Daniels
When you're that comfortable with your own product, with your own work rate - so to speak - that's when you become valuable. That's when people start vying for you, to ply your trade in their wrestling match.
— Christopher Daniels
But whether or not I deserved being called 'King of the Indies,' I've wrestled in many promotions across the US because promoters put a lot of credence in that title.
— Christopher Daniels
I'm most comfortable being myself, but I will admit to having an abnormal amount of fun being the King of Spice.
— Christopher Daniels
As far as the level of success, any step that TNA took, it always felt like it was a small step, but it was a small step forward. I always felt like the smart thing that TNA did was that they never let their reach exceed their grasp, so to speak. They never tried to take on too much at one time.
— Christopher Daniels
When you start to add paraphernalia into a match whether it's a ladder match or a tables match or anything, any of these outside factors, you start to ramp up the intensity and you ramp up the difficulty in these matches.
— Christopher Daniels
There's a pressure to be the wrestler that you are, that character that you've created 24 hours a day 7 days a week. It's tough for wrestlers sometimes to sort of have that separation between person and character.
— Christopher Daniels
It warms my heart to know that people respect my opinion enough to want my input, to want my opinion on their their work and I try to give the benefit of my experience.
— Christopher Daniels
Once cable started coming around, I had a lot of access to a lot of different wrestling, but primarily, the Mid Atlantic stuff is what I sort of fell in love with.
— Christopher Daniels
The difference between wrestling in singles and in tags, there's just a different art to it. There's a mentality.
— Christopher Daniels
Honestly, I'm sure the WWE's not looking for 47-year old rookies and that's fine with me. The timing of my career worked out where when I might have been interesting to them, were times that I was under contract with TNA or Ring of Honor and that's fine with me.
— Christopher Daniels
I feel like the X Division, when it first started out, it was the thing that made TNA different than everything else that was on the scene. It was also the thing that brought a lot of the buzz around TNA in the very beginning.
— Christopher Daniels
I don't really feel like I'm doing comedy, per say. I play off of guys a certain way but I don't really do a lot of comedy in the ring.
— Christopher Daniels
I didn't put a date on what's left in my career. I didn't say by the time I'm 46, or 47, or 48, or by the time I've been in wrestling for 25 years or 26. I just said I was going to keep doing it as long as I could, and as long as I was still having fun.
— Christopher Daniels
Once that bell rings, all I can do is perform at the best of my abilities and at the top of my game.
— Christopher Daniels
Not every pitch I swing at is going over the fence, but you're going to miss every shot you don't take.
— Christopher Daniels
I've felt that A.J. Styles has always proven that he's a great in-ring competitor and on the television show.
— Christopher Daniels
I was never going to become Road Warrior Animal.
— Christopher Daniels
So much of our business is 'What have you done lately?' There is no resting on the laurels.
— Christopher Daniels
A lot of guys who first start wrestling, they're nervous to go out in front of a crowd but that never really bothered me because I spent my high school years and my college years on a stage.
— Christopher Daniels
I've got ties in Chicago. I was trained there. I've got a lot of family and friends.
— Christopher Daniels
I mean, I'm twenty years in the business, I still watch tapes. I still watch matches on Youtube. I'm trying to learn. I watch my old stuff to see what I used to do that worked, that didn't work. You never stop learning.
— Christopher Daniels
I've being doing some stuff overseas. I got the opportunity to go to New Japan a couple of times.
— Christopher Daniels
I've been extremely lucky in terms on injury. Very few injuries over the course of, this is the beginning of my 16th year. I know a lot of guys that have had a lot shorter careers and a lot more injuries, so I knock on wood every day.
— Christopher Daniels
If they would have introduced me as someone who is basically The Undertaker's boss, it would have fell flat. I'm 200 pounds and I'm 5'10", so it certainly would have been difficult to take me seriously as someone who is intimidating The Undertaker.
— Christopher Daniels
I go back and watch a lot of the stuff that I did back in the day, and it was a lot of wrestling just to show that I could wrestle. And I realized that sort of stuff is sort of pointless.
— Christopher Daniels
I graduated college, my degree is in theatre, so I went to Chicago and tried to get into the theatre scene up there, but it was real hard to break in and find paying work.
— Christopher Daniels
I sometimes wonder, the tendency for anybody, especially when you're with friends and you're in the trenches, is to laugh at the stuff that you interpret as ridiculous or silly, and to grouch about the things that you interpret as not being good. That to me isn't morale, that's just like getting through the day.
— Christopher Daniels
The thing about the Young Bucks is that they've sort of turned their own success into this movement. They don't really follow a format or play by a set of rules, they just go out there and feel everything, so it's hard to gauge a game plan for them.
— Christopher Daniels
I was very fortunate after I left TNA that Ring of Honor had a position here for me.
— Christopher Daniels
I've always tried to, in terms of physical action, keep myself at a certain level and been fortunate enough to work with guys that push me to stay there.
— Christopher Daniels
So it didn't matter to me whether it was the serious guy or the comedy guy, if I was getting people involved and invested in watching wrestling then it's a win-win situation for both of us.
— Christopher Daniels
If I wasn't addicted to the idea of performing, I think retiring out of the ring and moving to a backstage position or becoming more of an office guy. That wouldn't bother me so much.
— Christopher Daniels
I've been a comic book fan since I was 10 years old.
— Christopher Daniels
It's cool to see wrestling fans that are also comic book creators sort of put their fandom on the page, and then take that fandom and put it on the screen.
— Christopher Daniels
To peel the curtain back, I don't know if I could do Curry Man the same way I did it in TNA and not be racially insensitive.
— Christopher Daniels
It's easy to dismiss Cheeseburger. You look at him as a guy who is 5'8, 125 pounds, very inexperienced. I know not to judge a book by it's cover, and if a kid with those dimensions is willing to get in the ring with me and Kazarian, you know his heart is the size of Cleveland.
— Christopher Daniels
For years now boxing and MMA have shown it's not the size of the guy in the fight.
— Christopher Daniels
Anyone who is not trying to be the world champion is wasting their time.
— Christopher Daniels
When we started with Ring of Honor, when we started with TNA, there was a very similar mindset that we were building something, that we were doing something good.
— Christopher Daniels
What I do I try different things ahead of time, I don't get stuck in one rut and I don't do the same workout for more than a month at at time.
— Christopher Daniels
I don't spend hours upon hours in the gym, I go in for about an hour at at time and that's how you get the best results.
— Christopher Daniels
What happens between the bells is what Ring of Honor has always been known for. If you're looking for that action - the in-ring wrestling - that's what Ring of Honor offers at a better rate than anyone else in the world.
— Christopher Daniels
Christopher Daniels does not do Facebook. I have a Facebook page but I very rarely use it, because I don't go on the computer a lot at home.
— Christopher Daniels
I don't think that there's a burning hunger in the wrestling world to see me necessarily wrestle anybody.
— Christopher Daniels
I'm not a soup can, but I feel like wrestling me and beating me means something, even though seems like everybody does it these days, but I'm okay with that.
— Christopher Daniels
I do feel that AEW is similar to TNA in the sense of the young locker room and in the same way that TNA back in the day had these guys hadn't had that opportunity on the national spotlight.
— Christopher Daniels
I think any company that gives Samoa Joe an opportunity is going to benefit and be happy. I think Joe is a great performer.
— Christopher Daniels
Ring of Honor has always been about the best wrestling in the world, and by adding the New Japan talent into the game, it's really upped everyone's game.
— Christopher Daniels
And the truth of the matter is sometimes it's hard to be different from the WWE when you're trying to gain those same viewers. Sometimes there's a tendency to sort of follow in the footsteps of the WWE.
— Christopher Daniels
Every day I wake up, and I think about the wear and tear on my body, and will I be able to continue to perform at a high level. Sometimes I'm working with guys that are 15 years younger than me, 20 years younger than me.
— Christopher Daniels
I'm very interested in keeping my endurance up, my stamina up, I keep my rest periods short and I try to do as much compound movement as i can. Not isolation, but a lot of compound exercises, stuff designed to work the whole the body, to get the full body workout.
— Christopher Daniels
When the WWE does well, professional wrestling does well. The WWE is what most people know as professional wrestling.
— Christopher Daniels
With syndicated television and broadcast pay-per-view, this is an opportunity for a lot of guys to break into the national mainstream.
— Christopher Daniels
I've got two kids and they monopolize my computer time.
— Christopher Daniels
I feel like with the level of talent that we've got in AEW - there are some fans of mine that would love to see me on 'Dynamite', but the honest truth is, the time to feature me as an act, I feel, is sort of, not long gone, but it's sort of passed, and I'm okay with that.
— Christopher Daniels
The match with Taka Michinoku for the Light Heavyweight title was in fact my first match with the WWE, but I didn't know about it until I got to the building.
— Christopher Daniels
I don't think I'll go a day as a professional wrestler without remembering the good parts of my TNA career. That really is the bulk of my career that people are aware and familiar with.
— Christopher Daniels
New Japan, who is on a tear, they're gaining a lot of great United States exposure being on Ring of Honor's television and pay-per-views. I feel like both companies are thriving and surviving and excelling.
— Christopher Daniels
As the years progress, TNA knew they had something good with the X-Division, then they started building their tag and heavyweight division, and it became one of many good divisions as opposed to the 'stand out' division.
— Christopher Daniels
And so it's sort of a fine line where you want to be recognizable as professional wrestling but you also want to set yourself apart from what some people consider the standard of professional wrestling, which is the WWE.
— Christopher Daniels
I do a lot of yoga, it keeps you flexible and you recover from injury quickly and I try to keep my heart rate up the entire time.
— Christopher Daniels
When you hear complaints about pro wrestling, it's that there is too much soap opera, too much storyline.
— Christopher Daniels
When AEW came around, I was in probably my sixth year at Ring of Honor, and I was in a position where I felt like I had sort of done everything I wanted to do in the ring at Ring of Honor.
— Christopher Daniels
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