Bobby Lashley Quotes

Everyone likes to be the heel. Everyone wants to be the bad guy. I mean, I love being the bad guy, but the crowd doesn’t want me to be a bad guy. In real life, I’m too much of a good guy to be a bad guy.

I don’t spoil myself on extravagant cars or spending money on jewelry. So I save a lot of the money I have.

When I was with WWE before, I was a big guy throwing people around – power moves. Then after that, when I left WWE, I was like, ‘I still enjoy professional wrestling,’ but some of the smaller guys look up at me and say, ‘I don’t wanna wrestle him. I don’t wanna get thrown around by that guy.’

I wanted to go into this fight business, and I wanted to go into it full force. So when you do something like that – enter into a new venture – it keeps you very busy.

Money is not it for me. I love to travel and take care of my kids and be around my children.

I love what I do. I love the competition of fighting. And I love to wrestle.

Whether it’s MMA or wrestling, I try to find the best people and go after the best people.

I was a business management major.

I’m the type of person where, at the end of the game, if there’s 10 seconds left, and you need to get somebody the ball, and you’re behind by one, give me the ball. Get me the ball every single time.

I was excited ‘Maxim’ wanted me to be in Expert Fitness.

I like Canada. The fans here are great. It’s always good to come up here with some good energy.

When you get to a certain level in wrestling, you got to be the ring general, and I’ve been in wrestling for a long time. And I can be a ring general against anybody.

MMA – for me, it was something that I needed to challenge myself.

I’d like to someday possibly come out with a workout video or even a manual just to teach people the things I know.

Kenny King, his character on TV is him.

Anything can happen in a fight, and anything can happen in training.

My philosophy is, if you work as hard as you can, you give yourself as many opportunities as you can to be successful and lucky.

Pro wrestling has absolutely helped my fighting.

Everybody gives Trump an extremely bad rap. He’s a businessman, so he is not trying to rub your back and tell you everything is going to be OK. He is going to set standards and, when everything is in chaos, you need someone who is willing to do what needs to be done.

I’m not the type to call people out.

I want that fight with Brock Lesnar. I don’t care if it’s the ring, the cage, or in a street fight.

You only live once, so you got to do as much as you can in the time that you have.

We have to start encouraging people to step out of their comfort zones and start doing new things. Anything anybody does new, there are a bunch of naysayers.

When you put wrestlers on TV, they’re the highest professionals in the business.

I can go and fight, take one punch, and have a concussion and start having issues with it, or I can wrestle my entire career and never have a concussion. It’s just a hazard of the business.

Working out is simple if you know what to do.

I don’t go on social media.

My family comes from Panama, and I grew up in a single parent household with my mother, who barely spoke English. She couldn’t get a good job, yet there were four of us for her to raise.

When you get put in a position like that, to shave off the hair of the boss of the company, they’re putting a lot of faith in you, and they believe in you.

Once you catch that fever of wrestling, you really can’t get it out.

When somebody makes a decision on what they think they need to do, I don’t question it at all.

I have a fanbase, and I have a large fanbase, and there’s a lot of people that like me, and there’s a lot of people that support me, and there’s a lot of people that can relate to me.

Wrestling has taken me on a ride and a love affair. I absolutely enjoy wrestling.

When people underestimate or think my success has come easily, that doesn’t bother me.

Wrestling is in my blood.

Bobby Roode is amazing.

Some guys lock up when they hear the crowd. I feel the energy and take it with me into the fight. I’ve been in front of huge crowds and know to use that energy.

When I train for fights, my kids understand, and they have my back. They are there with me.

You can scout people as much as you want. At the end of the day, it’s a fight, so you got to be ready for almost anything.

Any fighter, at the end of the day, that says it’s not about the money is ridiculous. We wouldn’t be training this hard, putting our bodies on the line, and torturing our bodies if there wasn’t a payday at the end of the day.

I hate to lose.

In wrestling, you’ve got to be an athlete. You can’t just be a body builder; you can’t just be this big strong guy who picks people up and throws them around. For longevity in the business, you got to keep your body fit and together.

The only way to survive is to get back up.

My kids are my biggest motivation.

I don’t eat for pleasure; I eat for performance.

With wrestling, we’re still athletes. I train like we’re an athlete as opposed to a body builder. Some people still have that body-builder mentality. But not from me. I do a lot of agility work and stuff like that.

I’ve had no documented concussions.

I grew up with nothing, and that was my motivation.

I like to get the blood flowing and get as loose as I can possibly get. It’s not very difficult to hurt yourself out there if you aren’t prepared, especially in a Fatal Four Way.

A.J. Styles is great – he’s a great performer – so I’m not going to take anything away from him.

I’m a product of amateur wrestling, and there is no one there to help you with matches or win matches – you have to do it yourself.

I’ve never been a politics guy in wrestling; I’m just someone who came out and worked.

I try to take care of myself as much as possible.

Eric Young is phenomenal. Bobby Roode – every time I get in the ring with those guys, it’s almost like magic.

I can’t even begin to entertain another wrestler’s perception of me if they don’t understand what my fans look for in me. I’m different; I’m different.

Donald Trump was really cool. I think a lot of people don’t understand him. He brings so much media attention to anything he does. He’s a proven success. I think people should listen to what he says a little more than focusing on hair.

A lot of people in MMA do part-time jobs.

WWE is there for the soldiers.

There’s no secret I love professional wrestling. It’s not just the money all the time, I love wrestling, and I love fighting.

When I go to Japan, they don’t care if you win or lose; they just want to see a good fight.

If somebody has something negative to say, I’m a very – I won’t say introverted, because I’m not introverted – I’m a very, just, calm person.

I know I can wrestle a lot longer than I can fight.

Being in the wrestling business, it was a whole lot to deal with in a short amount of time. I went from amateur wrestling one minute to, the next minute, I’m traveling the world, and I’m on the road 250 days a year.

I love wrestling, and of course WWE is the main stage, but I’m happy to be with TNA.

I am really simple with diets. I say feed your frame.

I’m a father, and that is the absolute most important thing in my life.

I don’t want to be bothered when I’m stretching. I need to focus.

Everybody wants to be a critic: a critic without the actual accolades to be a critic.

When I started, I just put my nose to the grindstone, had great trainers and opponents like Fit Finlay, Arn Anderson, Booker T, Umaga and Bob Holly, and good things started to happen.

If you play college sports, it’s not like you have to – the next step in your career is another sport. You don’t have to go into another sport. If you play college sports, you obviously graduated with a degree.