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People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.

- Daniel Bryan

Prove, Anybody, About, Proving

I like Everton. If I'm going to cheer for that kind of football team, I'm going to cheer for Everton. But the Seahawks are my passion.

- Daniel Bryan

Like, Going, Football Team, Everton

I think of Bret Hart as somebody who held the Intercontinental championship like it was the World Heavyweight championship. Every title match he was in felt important, like it was the most important thing on the show. The way he carried himself and the matches he had, it was just everything I thought a champion should be.

- Daniel Bryan

I Think, Heavyweight, Held, Hart

I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.

- Daniel Bryan

Thought, Always, Fascinating, Shawn

My favorite wrestler growing up was Dean Malenko. He was a very technical wrestler, and when I trained with Shawn Michaels, he wasn't that kind of a technical wrestler. So, when I finally met Regal in 2001, he was that kind of a wrestler, and all of a sudden, I could ask him things, and he would know what I was talking about and how to do it.

- Daniel Bryan

Very, Dean, Technical, Shawn

Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao was one of the worst boxing matches I've ever seen, but millions of people watched it because of the personalities involved.

- Daniel Bryan

Floyd Mayweather, Matches, Floyd

When I first got to WWE, the head of talent relations was John Laurinaitis, who is now my father-in-law, and the first thing I thought when I saw everything that he had to do is, I thought, 'I would never, in a million years, ever want that job. You could not pay me enough money to have that job.'

- Daniel Bryan

Thought, WWE, Father-In-Law, Enough Money

Me, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Lyoto Machida, former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, all shared a two-bedroom apartment together.

- Daniel Bryan

Heavyweight, Shared, Former, UFC

I've always respected and appreciated Punk, but we never really hung out. We came from the same route, but we didn't necessarily hang out in the same circles. I've always had a great appreciation and respect for his hard work.

- Daniel Bryan

Circles, Hang, Had, Respected

Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.

- Daniel Bryan

Perfect, Other, Pursuit, Perfection

That is one of the coolest things about WWE and wrestling in general. The fans have this very unique voice and this very unique power, and in no other sport and no other form of entertainment can the fans make their voices heard and it effect change.

- Daniel Bryan

Voice, Other, Very, Coolest

I used to be vegan. I'm not anymore, but I don't eat hardly any meat. But it's nice for me to go to a place like Chipotle where I can get some fresh veggies, some brown rice, some black beans, and all that kind of stuff.

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Some, Used, Anymore, Hardly

I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.

- Daniel Bryan

I Think, Part, Very, OK

I went from being a guy who was sparingly being used on television to being the World Heavyweight Champion and the focus of a lot of the storylines on Smackdown.

- Daniel Bryan

Television, Heavyweight, Sparingly

I would define the new aspects of fatherhood like this: It is 75 percent amazing and 25 percent demoralizing. I think any new parent can understand exactly what I'm talking about.

- Daniel Bryan

Parent, Think, New, Demoralizing

Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing about it - that's, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.

- Daniel Bryan

Pain, Think, Like, Demoralizing

I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.

- Daniel Bryan

Small, Concrete, I Think, Disconcerting

I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

- Daniel Bryan

Manager, Go, Like, OK

I spent a lot of time over in England wrestling at Butlins holiday camps for Brian Dixon and All Star Wrestling.

- Daniel Bryan

Star, England, Over, Brian

I was very good in school, and my parents really would have really liked me to go to college. Instead, I went on this random journey to go be a professional wrestler.

- Daniel Bryan

Journey, College, Very, Wrestler

The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'

- Daniel Bryan

Best, Advice, Got, McMahon

I've lifted weights ever since I was a teenager, but I started going more towards the Olympic weightlifting style, which is clean and jerk.

- Daniel Bryan

Going, Which, Olympic, Teenager

My biggest concern with the whole deal with 'Total Divas' and with WWE - and, you know, they want you to be engaged with social media and all this kind of stuff - I don't want to live my life to entertain other people.

- Daniel Bryan

My Life, Engaged, Entertain, Social Media

I think one of the things that really endeared me to people was that people got to view more aspects of my personality than most because of the different things that I did within WWE.

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Think, WWE, I Think, Different Things

I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.

- Daniel Bryan

Treat, Small, Venue, Different Things

One of the autobiographies I really liked was Bob Dylan's. It was interesting because he didn't do it in a linear fashion.

- Daniel Bryan

Interesting, Linear, Really, Dylan

In combat sports, personalities are what draw.

- Daniel Bryan

Sports, Combat, Draw, Personalities

The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.

- Daniel Bryan

Love, Some, Given, Passions

The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.

- Daniel Bryan

Sweet Tooth, Stay, Away, Tooth

I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.

- Daniel Bryan

Football, Pressure, Putting, Pads

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