Tyson Kidd Quotes

Tyson Kidd

Profession : Wrestler

Birth : July 11, 1980

Just sitting in a steam room, you can't breathe. When you're doing Hindu squats in one and you get past 100, your whole body feels numb and you keep going. You start to find your limits and push your body past those limits, making new ones.

Tyson Kidd

The main thing is that everything is taped at Full Sail. It is kind of like competing on home turf every time in terms of the tapings and specials. The main roster travels, I am in Hartford for live Smackdown, then head to Edmonton and Calgary and Denver. It is travel travel travel. NXT is more stationary.

Tyson Kidd

So, the role of a producer is to kind of look at the show, kind of give our takes on what we see, and that'll be prior to the production meeting. Then, we kind of get assigned our matches and our segments, and then we - I like to go and collaborate with talent, and we put together what we see on TV every Monday and Friday.

Tyson Kidd

Wrestling, at its core, is all about fan and audience participation and fan interaction live in that Arena. Live in that bingo hall, live in that gymnasium, whatever it is, man, I've wrestled in all of them.

Tyson Kidd

I want to entertain the audience. I want the people to get their money's worth.

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I'm a giant UFC fan. Huge. I watch UFC all the time.

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I did, one time, over the past couple years look into maybe doing a little something in a Royal Rumble, just kind of as that, so that could be my last chapter, so the last time you see me is, y'know, this little thing, and it didn't work out.

Tyson Kidd

I haven't wrestled in five years almost. June 1st, 2015 was my last match, and I'm at peace with it. I love what I do now, and being a part of working with the talent.

Tyson Kidd

In 2011, I had a big chip on my shoulder, and I felt like I had a lot to prove every time I went out there. It led to good performances, but sometimes backstage, I could be - not to the talent, but just in general - I could be angry.

Tyson Kidd

Like, man, I would love to wrestle Roman Reigns. I would love to wrestle Gable, or Shorty G, I would love to.

Tyson Kidd

If you take a look back at my body of work in the ring, I'm so happy that I had that NXT run... It sucks that my in-ring career came to an end, but I'm glad that I had that full-year body of work.

Tyson Kidd

I wanted to build respect with my peers... I felt like I had done that throughout my WWE career. I really felt it and knew it was there when I got injured.

Tyson Kidd

The respect from your peers - I don't know if it's because I grew up in the business, I don't know if that's why - but to me, that became the biggest thing.

Tyson Kidd

There's only one way to train, and that's being in the ring. And even in practice, it's not the same as performing in front of a crowd.

Tyson Kidd

If you're afraid and don't let yourself get to empty, you'll never build your conditioning. I learned that from my Japanese trainer, Tokyo Joe, a long time ago.

Tyson Kidd

But I'm not going to let my knee alter anything I do in the ring. My move set is part of what makes me unique and there's no way I'm going to throw that away out of fear.

Tyson Kidd

My main goal is to leave everything I have out there in that ring at every arena.

Tyson Kidd

I didn't fracture my neck, I didn't break it, but technically it's actually worse. The ligament holding the C2 ruptured, so my disc hit my spinal cord.

Tyson Kidd

You don't have to sever your spinal cord to be paralyzed for life. You could just touch it and be paralyzed for life.

Tyson Kidd

There's an unwritten protocol when you hurt somebody. And when I say you hurt somebody, obviously it's not on purpose, but it still happens. I know I've rocked guys before where I checked on them after to make sure everything's cool.

Tyson Kidd