Shinsuke Nakamura Quotes

Shinsuke Nakamura

Profession : Athlete

Birth : February 24, 1980

One of the reasons to come to the WWE was to wrestle at 'WrestleMania,' but to main-event 'WrestleMania?' Wow! I live for this.

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I need to study English more. I'll start by watching 'Sesame Street' every day.

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Wrestling has its own culture. Every culture - Japan, Samoan, Indian, Korean - has wrestling, and wrestling is a worldwide mix.

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My inspirations were 'Macho Man' Randy Savage and Andre the Giant. It was easy to understand their character.

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After match, in WWE, I do not drink alcohol. I just drink a lot of water.

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I feel as if I accomplished everything in Japan, so I wanted to challenge myself. I wanted something new, so I decided to come to WWE.

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I use every kind of emotion in my wrestling, so that's why people call me the 'King of Strong Style.'

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Being around the young people makes me feel younger, like I'm 25 again.

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I want to be bigger than everybody.

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Every characteristic of my character and my moves always came from my real life. My character is kind of close to my real personality.

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Antonio Inoki majored in strong style. He showed real emotion with real technique in the ring. Hard shots that look like hard shots. But the important steps is the real technique from the real martial arts. It means detail is important.

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I want to be on 'SmackDown' because it has AJ Styles, Randy Orton, and John Cena - a lot of dream matches I can do.

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Around 2005, UFC offered me a chance to fight for them. But, at that moment, I was under contract with NJPW, and I decided to stay in pro-wrestling. It was a good opportunity, but I don't regret my choice.

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WWE style is a much different platform than other wrestling companies. Each wrestler wrestles under strict rules that fans never know.

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I felt good in the ring with John Cena.

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I really want to face Roman Reigns again.

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Sometimes I dance for concentration. I dance to release my nervousness.

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One of the purposes of coming to WWE was to wrestle with Daniel Bryan.

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Before I came to WWE, they sent me samples of all of the entrance music, so I told them, 'I don't use this,' and 'I don't use this,' and, 'Please mix music with violin,' and they would make samples, and I would give my opinion, and this would go back and forth until, finally, they made 'The Rising Sun,' and I was really happy to have that.

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I like to go surfing because I want to feel the ocean and experience nature, and nature fixes my balance, and this life is crazy sometimes, so it helps a wrestler's life because a wrestler's life is crazy sometimes.

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