Matt Riddle Quotes

Matt Riddle

Profession : Wrestler

Birth : January 14, 1986

I got a short - I got a temper. I fight in a cage for a living. There's a reason people like us are wired slightly different.

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I heard London is nice, so maybe it is. But I've only been to the armpit of England.

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I like to fight. That's who I am.

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The bottom line is, I've got a wife and three kids. I've got bills I have to pay.

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I'm just tired of the unethical people, the scumbags, all that. Maybe that's how all businesses are run, but in MMA, I've been in the UFC, Legacy, and Bellator. The UFC was the best, and even they didn't treat you that well.

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I'm down to fight anybody at any given time, anywhere.

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I will be completely honest: when I fought in Manchester, they were very cruel to me. One fan actually spat directly in my face, and he was lucky enough where it hit my mouth.

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I have to say, running in flip-flops through the airport can be pretty tricky.

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I love working with new guys, especially MMA guys.

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Crowds are always different, but I know I have hardcore fans who watch everything I do online, so I have to make sure every match is different.

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I got into the UFC after six months of training. I started doing jiu-jitsu, had my first fight, tried out for 'The Ultimate Fighter,' and got on.

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If I do make WWE - because in my head, until it's official, it's not a thing - I think if they brought me in, it would be very short lived at NXT, and I'd be on main roster extremely quick.

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If you're a wrestler in the WWE, then your goal is to be the headliner, main event of WrestleMania.

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In wrestling, sports entertainment, I get to fight in front of people; I get to wrestle in front of people; I get to entertain people sometimes four times a week - all around the country, all around the world.

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I just like people that bring in a very competitive mentality to pro wrestling.

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When I first started, I lived in Vegas because I was fighting in the UFC, and I was still fighting after the UFC.

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When I first started wrestling, I didn't even want people to know I was in the UFC.

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Wrestling is one of the hardest things, and it has nothing to do with the extremely hard physical part of it. It has to do with the psychological part of it.

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With wrestling, I'm working all the time, I'm wrestling all the time, I'm performing all the time, and I'm making money all the time.

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When I started doing pro wrestling, it wasn't the physical aspect doing the moves or taking the moves that was hard: it was interacting with the crowd, body movement, selling, getting that emotional attachment with people so they're invested in a match. That was the hard part.

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