Enzo Amore

Kevin Owens? He couldn't rock with me. It just wouldn't happen.

You can call us what you want, but at the end of the day, we're entertainers.

That used to be what I grew up on - which is the Attitude Era, because you never knew what was going to happen next.

I wear Jordans when I'm in the ring, alright? This isn't ballet, you know?

The squared circle's no pretty place to be, and there's nothin' sweet about it.

I loved all the wrestling going on in the ring - I wouldn't be into it as much if I didn't care about that - but I always had an infatuation with the performers and the entertainers.

Diesel coming down with shades, being seven feet tall with an all-black outfit on and the gloves; The Rock when he was wearing $800 Versace shirts; and Stone Cold, obviously, with the way he carried himself and the way he spoke and holding the microphone - these are the things that made me want to become a pro wrestler.

I've been fortunate enough to be given the blessing by Triple H down at NXT to start coming out to the ring with a microphone in my hand.

When I was young, a lot of the guys could sell themselves to me on the way to the ring with the way they acted and their mannerisms. Guys like Shawn Michaels, who I loved growing up. They were just loud. They didn't even need to say a word because they came out and had this crazy ring gear on.

It's not for everybody, and some of the toughest people I've ever met in my lifetime, I met in the wrestling ring.

I'm just one of those guys that, when I'm going in, I'm going all-in. That's kind of the way you've got to be in this business that I'm in.

More than anything, I prided myself when it was all set and done; the faith the company had in me to have seven segments on a television show - you have to tune in to see what can happen next.

As a kid growing up, I did idolize Chris Jericho at one point.

I travel on my own and try to - I float along to music.

I travelled with Neville; he is my road dog. We travelled on NXT and FCW before that. He opened my eyes to a whole genre of music in reggae.

Neville is one of my favorite pros in the business.

Listen: women lie, men lie, but numbers don't lie, guy.

You finish the damn match, point blank, period. That's it, and I always finish, even if I'm finishing on my back.

I've been picked up by Big Cass and thrown down the ramp onto metal. Have you ever seen that before in this business? No, no, that's a mighty big fall from the top of the ramp, straight down to the bottom onto concrete. He picked me up over his head and thrown me 14 feet to the ground.

Me and Cass don't talk anymore. I wish him nothing but the best, honestly.

Nobody ever wants to see a guy get hurt, because this is how we feed our families.

I've never worn the same pair of shoes twice, ever. That's a fact.

As a writer for six years, I wrote my own TV, which, I was the only person in the WWE that could probably honestly say, since day one in NXT, they wrote their own material.

In wrestling, I'll lay on my back for anybody 1-2-3.

I have tattooed on my hand the silver throwback mics from back in the day. My father used to have one of those when he'd lead people at the YMCA doing the cha-cha slide.

My microphone skills were developed at a young age watching my dad on the microphone. My dad DJ'ed bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs, things of that nature.

Me and Cass both hooped when we were youngsters. When I met him, he was not nearly as big as he is now. As a matter of fact, I think I was about the same size.

I've had an affinity for Michael Jordan. He's probably the greatest athlete in my generation.

I take that stage, and I'm the same guy backstage as I am on the stage. And you know what that guy is. That guy is a star. That guy is a champion. That guy is the guy that put '205 Live' on the map.

Most people say when they get on screen, the most successful acts are people who are just themselves and turn the volume up. But in my situation, I gotta turn the volume down.

A classroom setting for me was an audience.

I spent most of my days in school being a class clown. I never shut up. By the time I was in middle school, I had myself a personal aide.

If you watching remember The Miz at the time when he was on 'Real World,' he was a character known as The Miz. He always wanted to get into sports entertainment, as did I. In a very similar likeness, I was EA All Day.

I'm a walking, talking hypebeast, okay? Fresh Js on my feet every single week.

I was a writer before I was a wrestler when I was in the WWE.

I wasn't trying to be the next Hulk Hogan. I was trying to be the next Vince McMahon.

If you look back at my six-year run in the WWE, I never cursed on TV once, never cursed once.

Kofi Kingston is a big sneakerhead like me, and I love wearing Jordans.

One of my favorite rappers of all time, if not my favorite rapper of all time, is Nas.

I've been heavily, heavily tuned into the DJ Khaled album, 'Major Key,' which has some major, major plays on it, up and down the line.

Music and the WWE go hand-in-hand.

It is a fine line to be this PG superstar and also a role model and a bad guy and playing off our personality.

Flair, Dusty Rhodes, Shawn Michaels, The NWO, The Invasion, the wild stories, and the Attitude Era. All the crazy stories - you love them, and you get addicted to them and the lifestyle. But you have to separate them and toe the line and separate yourself from what is real and what is not.

I'm hoping Big Cass gets a great singles' run and vice versa. We pull for each other in that regard.

There ain't nobody who's got enough money to put my back in the ring.

I think the people you have to fear most in life are the people who dream with their eyes wide open.

I was a ball guy. I played basketball, baseball, football. I excelled in football the most. I played running back, wide receiver, safety, kick returner, punt returner.

In our business, it's hard to look at anything in retrospect and look at your accomplishments because you're so busy thinking about the next week. What we do is 52 weeks a year.

I lived, ate, breathed, slept Shawn Michaels. I wouldn't call it pro wrestling back in the day when I was a kid. I just called it Shawn Michaels.

My name is an acronym for EA - EA All Day. It's a persona that I developed over the years in sports as a caricature of myself. On the field, in practice, in the weight room, I was just a character and a personality.