69 Quotes by Johnny Gargano

The fact that I'm still able to wrestle on the indies and yet still do my stuff in NXT, and the fact that I wrestled in front of 15,000 people at the Barclays Center at TakeOver, and then, the following weekend, I was still doing indie shows, is wild.

It started with Dragon Gate USA, where I started as a guy on the pre-show and wasn't promised anything. I kept coming and doing what I do and ended up on the main show and eventually won their championship.

I want my lasting legacy to be that I was a good wrestler but a better person. I want people to remember me as a good dude. I think that's very important.

When I was younger, my favorite wrestlers were Shawn Michaels and Chris Jericho. I relate to them. I don't know what it was.

My mom made me a Shawn Michaels costume when I was a kid. I wore it every day and ran around the house dancing like him.

I've had some of my best matches in front of 50 people in bingo halls and VFW halls and things like that.

For me, I am not a fan of any of my own matches, and it's both a blessing and a curse. Because I'm never satisfied, I'm always looking to improve in every area.

I think NXT is kind of like the Cleveland, Ohio, of professional wrestling. We're that underdog whose hungry, who's always out to prove people wrong, and that's kind of what our locker room represents.

We're all out to set our best foot forward and to make NXT the best we possibly can, but at the end of the day, we all want to have the best match.