Eddie Kingston Quotes

Eddie Kingston

Profession : Wrestler

Birth : December 12, 1981

If you notice, when people start judging people, that gets me so mad. Because I was judged as a kid.

Eddie Kingston

In third grade, a mom told her daughter not to hang out with me because I'm going to be like my uncles.

Eddie Kingston

No one is better than me - that's the attitude I have to have.

Eddie Kingston

If I'm going to survive and survive as long as I have in wrestling, I have to believe I'm the best.

Eddie Kingston

Every man bleeds, every man can get beat up.

Eddie Kingston

I've seen my father go hungry, but my brother and mom never went hungry. I saw my father do overtime after overtime just to make sure we were good and the family was safe. I come from that background, so if you love something - my dad didn't love his job. He loved his family, so he did what he had to do.

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I fell out of love with wrestling because it was very kiddy. I just got tired of it... I was becoming a teenager and a friend of mine put on ECW, the first thing I see is New Jack and I go oh, I grew up with guys like that. I see Raven with his whole depression stuff and I go oh, I feel like that.

Eddie Kingston

ECW brought me back into pro wrestling where I found guys like Chris Jericho. ECW brought in Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko.

Eddie Kingston

I like doing the independents still. Because without the independents, I would've went nuts years ago.

Eddie Kingston

I used to tell a lot of young guys on the independents, 'Don't be a mark or a fan for letters, be a mark and a fan for dollar signs,' so it didn't really matter where I was, as long as I get paid.

Eddie Kingston

I don't care if people do better than me with money and all that stuff. I will never hate on that because this is a business and we all got to try and make a living.

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I don't hate on anybody who makes it and makes money. That doesn't bother me. It's who they are as people that bothers me.

Eddie Kingston

My career before AEW was one step forward, four steps back.

Eddie Kingston

I'm not gonna lie to you, I was almost 300 pounds at one point because I just didn't work out. So my career, it's just up and down and I'm my own worst enemy.

Eddie Kingston

For us, in the ring, it's not just the technique that's the fundamentals, it's also for the people to understand what's good, what's bad.

Eddie Kingston

I just know when I see bad people, I like to call him out on it.

Eddie Kingston

I hate that word superstars.

Eddie Kingston

When I was at 17, I was just angry. I hated the world and wanted to fight everybody.

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