Apr 23, 1977 - Present
American professional wrestler, actor
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WHOAAAA. THERE GOES CODY RHOOOOODESSSS. WHOAAAA. YOU\'RE ONLY SMOKE AND MIRRORSSSSSSS. WHOAAAA. YOU\'RE ONLY SMOKE AND MIRRORSSSSSSS. What\'s up, man?
You\'re gonna get helped, if you\'re lacking it, in any way, because everybody\'s objective is to make a good picture.
I remember back to my days as a teenager. When you get your feelings hurt, you feel that moment of embarrassment. You think: \"No one wants to talk to me ever again. It\'s all over.\" I reassure people that\'s totally not the case. These bullies are just hateful people doing hateful things. Sometimes, it\'s a lesson in tough love, but you keep positive, smile in the face of hateful adversity and move on. It makes you a stronger person.
What, Sheamus? Oh no, I can see him...he\'s pretty pale......What? oh no, he\'s even whiter than that. He\'s like a jar of mayonaisse with eyeballs and a ketchup haircut.
I learn from everybody I work with, and you learn, every single day. I can learn from anyone. Being fortunate enough to perform in front of a changing live audience, every night, you learn from everybody. Everyone has an opinion and they\'ll let you know.
CeNation. In Austin, TX, preparing to perfrom for members of our military. In that vein, I would like to let the Rough Riders Platoon know that even though they are going through a difficult time, with brave soliders making the ultimate sacrifice, to keep their heads up, hearts strong, and know that all of them are in my thoughts. Never Give Up.
I\'m just surrounded by awesome funny folks and really creative people. I\'m learning, every day. There\'s not a day that I step on set that I don\'t have fun. It\'s a pretty good deal.
The WWE has a massive outreach on social media, and our fanbase is very vocal. So many young people watch the WWE, and I can turn around and say: \"This also happens to me. Daily.\" I\'ve been regarded as a very \"controversial\" figure, but in a setting like this, where I talk to young people, it helps.
15 steel chairs? That\'s insane. It was 23 steel chairs.
You get my point now? Coz before I thought you missed it. I\'ma viagra triple shot, you just a limp bizkit. WORD LIFE.
I\'ve always taken any sort of audible response as a compliment, and I always understand it is our consumers\' right and privilege to say whatever people want at our events. So as long as there\'s no silence, I\'ll keep being excited. But that stuff in the arenas is one thing. The comments on the internet - the obnoxious, visceral comments - are baffling to me. I just don\'t know why that\'s the way it is.
It wasn\'t until after I received my education that I seriously looked at sports entertainment as a way to make a career for myself. And they\'ve got to take it in stride. It\'s very much like acting or playing professional sports: One percent of one percent of the people who try out for it can actually say they make their living off of doing it.
I think that any sort of hindsight, especially in this wrestling industry, is a waste of time, and time is extremely valuable. I don\'t control that. People ask me to do something, and it is our job, as entertainers, to do the best that we can to accomplish that goal. What I get upset about in this business is that so many people talk about the \"what if,\" instead of the \"what is.\" The \"what is\" is more important. If someone were to go back 15 years and say, \"You should have done this,\" it\'s too late. I was told to do \"X,\" and I was trying to do \"X\" the best way that I could.
This is everything to me. If I don\'t have this, I don\'t know what else I\'ll be doing. I personally have found where I belong. You can cut back to photos of me holding, uh, paper championships. That was truly my dream. This is what I was born to do. As far as walking away from all this to do something else, I don\'t..I just don\'t...I don\'t see the rationality.
When I first became \"controversial\" and the fanbase became divided it was backwards! Because normally in our industry, when you hear a certain noise, you become a bad guy. My job wasn\'t to do that, which was a bit of wandering into no man\'s land. At the WWE, it\'s our job to tell stories. I\'m one of the few characters who can be in the WWE and can then take that experience and spin it out to real-life lessons. When you can clock into work and make a difference in someone else\'s life, that\'s a good way to make a living.
When you think something is cool already, it\'s okay to put in an honest day\'s work.
I think every year, my role changes. And I am an open house for advice, for anyone to use. It\'s just a matter of asking questions.
When the day comes when you don't believe in yourself there's the door, get the hell out.
You want The Next Big Thing? Let me take my pants off!
You want some? Come get some!
My advice to young people in the wrestling business would be to repeat such questions to yourself as: \"How am I standing out? How am I getting recognized? How am I getting over?\" And if you don\'t have definitive answers for doing those things, you are doing it wrong. It is, essentially, on them. There is no right way to do it, and that\'s one of the great things about this business because you can be creative. People who say they have it figured out are wrong.
I was fortunate that when I was first starting out in New Orleans, I had a remarkable high-school teacher. And she was a great, great influence in my life, and I think she gave me the courage and the confidence to go forward into the real world. She instilled in me that my dreams were important and that what I was passionate about was most important.
I don\'t think my body\'s gonna go to hell if I train for performance. It might change a little and adapt, but I like being strong.
You often hear when you talk to guys in our industry, that this is my personality, I just turn the volume up, but over the years, I\'ve really become me. No volume turned up, no nothing. I\'ve been able to go out there and just be myself. It\'s through solid performance after solid performance that people just take you for who you are.
My favorite city is anything close to home. Anytime I can sleep in my own bed, that\'s a good one.
I can\'t tell you how many times I would call and text my boss, Vince McMahon, on the set of \'Sisters\' and \'Trainwreck\' and anything else like this to thank him for over-preparing me for this.
I got a bunch of my own, but my favorite signature move of all time is Ric Flair\'s Figure Four Leglock.
I really want to thank the whole Phoenix-Scottsdale-Glendale area. It\'s been a wonderful home for WWE for years.
Just like I have my critics, Dwayne \'The Rock\' Johnson has critics, and I was one of the biggest \'Hey man, you\'re never here\' guys around, but not anymore. He\'s completely committed to WWE.
I used to like to see The Millionaires versus The Hulkamaniacs. That team versus team atmosphere where you have 10 guys or 8 guys, and it comes down to 3-on-1 - that got exciting for me.