Enzo Amore Quotes

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

Basically when you’re a writer and have a mind like mine, my mind has gone platinum multiple times, and I have got a heart of gold; my heart’s in the right place.

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

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

I was different. I wasn’t like anyone else. The business has never seen the likes of me, ever, and probably never will.

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.

I had a great relationship with Vince McMahon.

On the low, I’ve been in Kanye‘s studio, No Name, out in L.A.

I am an entertainer by all means, and I am going to always take stages and will fall on my face with those stages without a care because I am not afraid to fail.

I trained under Bill DeMott. I did a lot of my promo work with Dusty Rhodes.

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’ve been working with a lot of people out in Hollywood on writing scripts, screenplays, directing, producing, and making music.

To know that a kid could come up to me in 20 or 30 years and say, ‘Hey, here’s a picture of us. I met you at a meet-and-greet, and I idolized you as a child. I’m a WWE Superstar, too, because you inspired me.’ That’s crazy to think, but it could happen. I made it, so if I can make it, anybody can.

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

The NXT environment is so competitive.

The only vowel I’m concerned with is ‘I.’

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

It’s just an honor to compete in New York, New Jersey, the tri-state area, where we’re from. I have so much roots there, so much family.

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.

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

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.

I never was in a wrestling ring before I stepped foot into a WWE ring, so I am a product of NXT.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Any time I see an opportunity to get ahead, I take it.

Monday nights, it wasn’t like, ‘Mom, I want to watch Monday Night Raw.’ It was like, ‘Mom, put on Shawn Michaels.’

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.

When I was a kid, I got to meet Shawn Michaels at the Continental Airlines Arena, and I showed Shawn that picture.

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

You put a microphone in my hand on live TV, and that’s just an opportunity for me to get ahead in life. That’s the way I look at it.

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.

You can’t put a cubicle on Enzo Amore. You can’t put a cubicle around Eric Arndt.

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.

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

I would say Triple H is the biggest influence on my career. He’s almost like a father figure. If I slip up, or there’s a problem, he lets me know.

I grew up a block away from Hell, and my pop-pop was a chef in Hell’s Kitchen.

Enzo Amore, the guy you see on TV, existed in a gym in New Jersey long before he ever took to a TV screen.

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

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

I’m no saint.

I was focused as a writer and marketing and a character. I was like Jim Carrey.

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

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

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

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.

Music and the WWE go hand-in-hand.

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.

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.

I would be up until 3 or 4 o’clock in the morning on nights I was facing a wall. Because when I walked into WWE, I was told I was going to be fired ten times because I’m the smallest guy around.

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

There ain’t no way the state of Delaware is gonna tell me how to sign my own license!

Listen: when you work for an employer for six years, are you gonna sit here and tell me you ain’t gotta bad thing to say about them?

Hell’s Kitchen is open 24/7, and I’m cooking on the stove all day.

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.