Lance Archer Quotes

Lance Archer

Profession : Wrestler

Birth : February 28, 1977

I'll just say it was a combination of a lot of people within the AEW upper office that decided that it was a good idea to have the 'Murder Hawk Monster' on AEW television.

Lance Archer

I work with kids in camps and help in training seminars and situations going to schools and stuff like that, there's guys and girls that do some amazing, amazing wrestling.

Lance Archer

So it was really cool just reinventing myself, changing my look, my image, my intensity, my ring-work style, everything that went along with it.

Lance Archer

You had to have two VCRs, and you had to tape everything, and you had to make a choice - you either watch WWF or you watch WCW, or you watch one half of one show and the last half of the second show or whatever the case was back then.

Lance Archer

Pro wrestling is pro wrestling and it's one of those industries where things change on a dime. I'm coming up on 19 years in a business with various companies and often one day you're there and the next day you're gone.

Lance Archer

I'm looking forward to making people open their eyes and recognize exactly how good I am at what I do.

Lance Archer

When I started with New Japan in 2011, there was a total of five or six foreigners on the roster.

Lance Archer

I think that's the most interesting part about social media these days. You have such direct contact with anybody and everybody.

Lance Archer

Michael Hayes was the one that brought me up to be part of ECW. I had long hair, a braided goatee.

Lance Archer

I think initially with the ECW product it was a perfect place. Even though it was WWE's ECW, it was a perfect place for the young talent to kind of get their feet wet and figure out the lay of the land and to figure out how the WWE works and then you can transition better into Raw or SmackDown.

Lance Archer

I have had some amazing opportunities. I don't take anyway anything that I have had from my past but I think I am really capitalizing on it.

Lance Archer

I had some amazing opportunities through TNA, even my time in WWE. Just to be able to go out there and walk out there in a WWE arena is an opportunity in itself but I don't think I was ready to capitalize on that.

Lance Archer

That's the cool part about it is AEW is a very open company to moving forward and changing wrestling as a whole.

Lance Archer

For me, it's always just taking your time, biding your time, doing what you can when you can with what you got.

Lance Archer

The things that we have, the opportunities that we continue to do with the backstage vignettes, throwing guys into ceilings, trash cans, lockers, and everything I can find to put them in and through, that itself has been fun for me.

Lance Archer

I really hope with New Japan - I was really considered a tag team guy, Killer Elite Squad had an amazing run for seven years.

Lance Archer

You see people come in and out of WWE and the business all the time in different situations.

Lance Archer

One of the bigger things, I think, was learning and trying to find out who Vance Archer was, and who Vance Archer is, and who Vance Archer would end up being.

Lance Archer

Will I end up in TNA? Who knows. Will I end up back in the WWE? Who knows. I'm going to push forward. I'm going to become as big and better as I've ever been.

Lance Archer

I simply believe that I am that star that WWE is looking for. But in this business you have to be put in the right spotlight for that to be recognized. Give me that spotlight and you won't be able to look away.

Lance Archer