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Jake Hager Quotes
Jake Hager Quotes
Jake Hager
American
Wrestler
Born:
Mar 24
,
1982
First
Me
People
Time
Wrestling
You
I need to wrestle, I need to compete.
Jake Hager
Wrestle
Compete
Need
I've heard that I'm a wrestler and not a real fighter, but I have nothing to prove to anybody.
Jake Hager
Nothing
Fighter
Wrestler
Real
Prove
Heard
Anybody
As a fighter, I'm not one of those people that wants to prove I can go out and throw strikes.
Jake Hager
People
Fighter
Strikes
Those
I Can
Out
Throw
Prove
Go
Wants
I feel like being a professional wrestling has definitely made me a better MMA fighter.
Jake Hager
Me
Better
Made
Fighter
Definitely
MMA
I Feel
I Feel Like
Wrestling
Feel
Like
Being
Professional
Wrestling for wrestling fans is an honor.
Jake Hager
Fans
Honor
Wrestling
In this world, I feel like we all need to be nicer to each other.
Jake Hager
World
Other
I Feel
I Feel Like
Feel
Like
Each
Nicer
Need
The more you boo me the better I'm going to wrestle. You don't like me? So what. It's a lot of fun to work like that and wrestle with that mindset.
Jake Hager
Work
Me
You
Better
Boo
Mindset
Wrestle
More
Like
Lot
Going
Fun
I grew up in one of the most prolific high-school-wrestling programs in the country, and MMA fighters are more successful when they have that amateur-wrestling background.
Jake Hager
Country
Programs
Background
Prolific
MMA
More
Most
Up
Grew
Successful
Fighters
I'm making MMA great again for pro wrestlers.
Jake Hager
Great
MMA
Wrestlers
Making
Pro
Again
Pro wrestling is all about staying fresh.
Jake Hager
Staying
About
Wrestling
Fresh
Pro
A lot of great fighters were amateur wrestlers first and you can study them on film to see how they adapted the techniques.
Jake Hager
Great
You
First
See
Wrestlers
Study
How
Amateur
Were
Lot
Them
Fighters
Film
Techniques
Adapted
In my first fight, I acknowledged it. I'm a professional wrestler, this is who I am, who you know me as. But guess what, I've also been wrestling since I was 5 years old - real wrestling - amateur wrestling, Olympic wrestling.
Jake Hager
Me
You
Fight
I Am
Old
First
Guess
Wrestler
Wrestling
Since
Know
Also
Am
Real
Amateur
Been
Years
Acknowledged
Who
Professional
Olympic
I love being a family man.
Jake Hager
Love
Family
Man
I Love
Family Man
Being
For me, the wins and losses in pro wrestling never mattered. The thing that matters is the time on television to tell that story. If you have a two-segment match on television, whether you win or lose, both people's brands win with a great match.
Jake Hager
Time
Great
Me
You
People
Win
Win Or Lose
Lose
Matters
Television
Tell
Wrestling
Both
Wins
Never
Match
Losses
Mattered
Brands
Pro
Story
Whether
Thing
If you go back and look at WWE Magazine, they asked me when I was going to win my first world championship and I told them WrestleMania XXVI, so I was only a couple days off.
Jake Hager
Me
You
World
Win
First
Back
Magazine
WrestleMania
Only
Days
Look
Couple
First World
WWE
Go
Off
Going
Them
Asked
World Championship
Championship
Whether you speak English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, everybody can speak wrestling and it's really cool to go to different cultures and societies and see how the littlest things we do as performers influence the biggest things.
Jake Hager
You
Speak
Everybody
See
Russian
Wrestling
Performers
How
Go
Cultures
Influence
Different
Biggest
Whether
Chinese
Different Cultures
Spanish
Biggest Things
Really
English
Cool
Things
Societies
I've always been a big fan of Hollywood.
Jake Hager
Big
Always
Been
Big Fan
Fan
Hollywood
Growing up in Perry, Oklahoma, there's not a lot going on, so we would go wrestle anywhere and anyplace we could. It really is who I am.
Jake Hager
I Am
Oklahoma
Would
Wrestle
Could
Am
Go
Lot
Perry
Up
Going
Anywhere
Really
Who
Growing
Growing Up
When you get in the cage with me, you'd better be ready to go 35 minutes, not just 15.
Jake Hager
Me
You
Better
Minutes
Cage
Ready
Go
Get
Just
Anyone that holds a championship you are on a list of a very few people that have had that special honor, and it is really incredible to say that no matter what you say about my wrestling career I was a World Heavyweight Champion and you can't take that away from me.
Jake Hager
Me
You
Champion
People
World
Matter
Honor
Few
Incredible
Say
About
Wrestling
Take
Had
Very
Few People
List
Anyone
Heavyweight
Heavyweight Champion
Holds
Really
Special
Away
Championship
Career
Kofi Kingston has always been one of my favorite opponents to wrestle. He and I started back in McDonough, Georgia in 2006 in developmental at Deep South together. So, our careers have come along at the same time. He's incredible.
Jake Hager
Time
Together
Incredible
Back
Our
Favorite
Wrestle
He
Developmental
Along
Come
Always
Opponents
Been
South
Georgia
Same
Same Time
Deep
Deep South
Started
Careers
It is cool to be a pro wrestler and that makes it so much better for us as pro wrestlers - who go out there and put our bodies on the line and give the fans the entertainment that they deserve.
Jake Hager
Entertainment
Better
Fans
Our
Out
Give
Wrestler
Wrestlers
Put
Makes
Go
Line
Pro
Us
Much
Bodies
Who
Cool
Deserve
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