Eddie Kingston Quotes

Eddie Kingston

Profession : Wrestler

Birth : December 12, 1981

Hot Stuff' Eddie Gilbert was really the first guy to inspire me. My mom got a Memphis wrestling tape from the Bronx and I saw Gilbert and that was it. He was definitely the first guy who made me think I wanted to do this. He doesn't get enough credit.

Eddie Kingston

My mom and dad are just happy that I'm doing something that's not illegal. My brother is just happy I found something that I'm passionate about. I didn't see the future. They did. They saw a future for me in anything I wanted to do.

Eddie Kingston

When I go on Twitter and see a guy from the independents doing something different and cool, I'm going to tell people about it.

Eddie Kingston

I mean I watched WWF like everybody else, but it always felt kind of soft to me.

Eddie Kingston

Bad days, man, are when you wake up and you just don't want to do anything. And it's not out of laziness. It's just your mentally in your own head and you start beating yourself up before you even take the first step out of bed. It's one of the weirdest feelings I can describe to people.

Eddie Kingston

Tracy Smothers was the first guy to believe in me and my old partner Blackjack. He was the first veteran that we met at the time who actually went out of his way and was so open, honest, and wanted to help us. He just loved pro wrestling. It was insane to me how much Tracy loved pro wrestling and he loved you if you were a wrestler.

Eddie Kingston

For most of my life, I thought I was crazy.

Eddie Kingston

Everything you do in life, you got to work for.

Eddie Kingston

The thing about wrestling in front of eight people in a bingo hall is that the spots still hurt. The chops still hurt. Your body still hurts the next day. But when you love wrestling, it doesn't matter. You do it for the pride and the respect of the business.

Eddie Kingston

As long as I reach one person that goes, 'I feel what Eddie's saying, I feel Eddie's anger or pain,' whatever you want to say, in the ring or on promos, if there's one person, I can be like, 'OK, good, I did my job.'

Eddie Kingston

To survive on the independents when I was making a living off of it, you had to do a Thursday show, a Friday show and Saturday and Sunday shows. You had to do at least four shows a week.

Eddie Kingston

The goal for me has always to be a champion. Whether it's me and Mox as a tag team, the TNT championship, or the big one, the grandaddy of them all - the goal has always been to be the top man.

Eddie Kingston

I kicked out of my first wrestling school. Me and my old partner and a bunch of other friends, we were so desperate to keep learning, that we got our money together, we rented a ring and paid for Ted Dibiase to come and teach us.

Eddie Kingston

One of my main problems with Mox is that he didn't use his popularity or social media with all of his followers and everything to put over places that he used to be at or people he used to run with.

Eddie Kingston

I believe God sent my niece and nephew to me not to stop wrestling because he knew good things were gonna happen.

Eddie Kingston

Detroit is a rough, rough place and that's how they like their wrestling, so I love Detroit.

Eddie Kingston

The old way, we never told a booker or a promoter anything. We didn't tell them when we were hurt. We'd be there with a broken ankle and still going to work, tape it up and go because we were scared of losing a job or a spot.

Eddie Kingston

I'm not going to forget where I came from.

Eddie Kingston

I'm doing me at the end of the day.

Eddie Kingston

Accepting love is very hard. Giving out love is easy.

Eddie Kingston