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I've accomplished every goal I've set out to. I've traveled the world, I've competed in just about every promotion there is.

I'm very stubborn and I don't like to lose.

For me, from day one, I don't think I realized that I was considered undersized, but I knew I was good. I had certain tools in my toolbox that other guys didn't have, like agility, quickness and explosiveness.

It was always important for me not to be pigeonholed as a cruiserweight-style wrestler.

I figure no matter what interview I do, the real good 'journalists' are going to find the completely irrelevant quotes that will drum up some controversy and stick it on their page to get some clicks and completely miss the real context of what the interview is about. That's what we do nowadays and call it 'journalism.'

One of the things people always ask me is, isn't it expensive to eat healthy or vegan? It can be, but isn't it expensive to live in a nice house or drive a nice car or wear nice clothes?

I love food and don't want to sacrifice my enjoyment to be healthy. You can enjoy food and can be mindful and healthy while you do it but it just takes a little time and effort.

There was one day where I just stopped eating meat, but then the transition to get rid of the dairy and eggs took 12 years.

I have put a lot of energy and focus into capturing the Cruiserweight Championship, but obviously I didn't get the job done.

I think if you're trying to be mindful of eating well on the road, it can be difficult no matter what. Your choices at midnight or one o'clock in some of the smaller towns when we are getting out of shows aren't going to be the best choices for eating healthy no matter what your dietary choices or restrictions are.

Pay-per-views bring conclusion to storylines and what has been going on from television. It is important to give viewers satisfactory pay off over storylines and that is why pay-per-views are important.

I have friends in other industries but if I am training for a wrestling match, I would turn to the best wrestler to train, not a football player.

Go fail or succeed on your own merits, be your own man.

Anything that is history making, then of course you want to be a part of it.

Just like music, I consider wrestling to be an art form, and I have a vision of what that art should look like.

You can have a favorite band, but when they sign with a major label... maybe a new producer says, 'You can't do that, take this down a notch.' And you'll keep listening, but you'll always think their first album was their best album.

I've been blessed for 17 years to have a job where I make people forget their problems for a little while.

I don't have a bucket list.

As I go around the country and I'm seeing all the fans in the WWE Universe, there's a lot of young kids and they're off to the wrong start, because they're being fed the wrong food.

Sometimes the best thing to do is to take a step back and get a little bit of a different perspective and re-evaluate things.

For me, I'm smart enough and have been around the business long enough to know you don't really retire.

At the end of the day all I've ever asked for is to be allowed to succeed and fail on my own merits. Not based on what somebody else wants me to do or thinks I should do. Or, what they want me to say or what they think I should say.

I've got plenty of people that would love to be ringside with me.

I'm pretty much who I am, and I'm not everybody's flavour, and I'm kind of polarising and some people like me and some people don't.

Nobody walks through life as a pure babyface per se or a pure heel, we all have shades of grey, and there's some days we're a little better than others, and some days we're a little more ornery. And I think that I just embody that.

Eveybody likes to speculate that me and Austin Starr are somehow related. I always say that that guy never had a tattoo.

I think there's a balance of fan interaction. I think sometimes there can be a little too much interaction. I know when I was a kid, the mystique of wrestlers and stuff was something that was kind of big, and if I got to hang out with them all the time i think that mystique can be lost.

I think the reality of the situation is if you're WWE and you're looking for talent, you're going to want the best guys out there, and you're gonna look at Ring Of Honor, because that's where the best talent is.

There's nothing more I hate than a wrestling snob.

I like to think every time I was put in a high pressure position, I've always delivered.

Really, since I left Impact Wrestling - some people say controversially - I've been really laying low.

I'm not motivated by money and I never really have been.

I'm probably not motivated by a lot of things that people think I am.

No matter who I am wrestling, as long as Bobby Heenan is my manager, I'll be happy.

I always mention Bobby Roode. We just click on a lot of different levels. We grew up appreciating the same type of wrestler and same type of wrestling. We are similar students to the game.

Guys like Samoa Joe, no matter what it's been, what promotion, every time we are in the ring there is such an easy storytelling and psychology in there. We always had good matchups.

I've always been a big believer in myself and that if you give me an opportunity I am going to make the most of it.

I was thankful that TNA saw the potential in me and put me in a position to fulfill something like winning the World Heavyweight Championship.

A guy like AJ Styles is obviously a great talent and he's going to go out there and put on a performance that's befitting of a man who is the World Champion.

I don't necessarily get rubs from championships, I'd like to feel the championship gets a rub off of me.

On the road, I'll always pack a package or two of pre-cooked lentils, nuts, vegan protein bars and powders.

As for my daily, it usually consists of a smoothie in the morning with banana, spinach and blueberry and veggie protein powder, then some kind of tofu or tempeh scramble with veggies. Later, I may have some type of rice and beans, salad with lentils, sweet potato, nut butter sandwich and another smoothie.

My initial going into vegetarian was learning about eating healthy.

No matter what lifestyle you choose, when it comes to eating, we should all as consumers have a choice to make informed decisions. We shouldn't be misinformed or mislead.

I'm someone who likes to question things that are put in front of me, I like to think I'm someone who asks 'why sir?' not a 'yes sir.'

I don't like hypocrisy, I don't like double standards, it's probably why i'm vegan.

When I was contacted about coming back to Impact they were obviously at a stage when they were really rebooting as a company.

I think I'm a very passionate person who's always strong in my convictions.

I really don't watch a lot of wrestling.

There was a time that I really loved pro wrestling, but I'm not a pro wrestling junkie, per se.

I don't have a lot of free time with the amount of traveling that I do, but most of pro wrestling isn't catered to me. I am not a kid. There are a lot of guys that complain to me about the product, but it's like, well, you are not a kid. It is catered to sell t-shirts and merchandise to kids and their parents.

I think that there is a lot of people that miss what pro wrestling can give them too. I don't watch a ton of it. I watch enough to see what is going on. I think it is also good to not be watching it because your ideas are your ideas.

I get paid to put tweets out sometimes.

Listen, things change, that's part of life. Part of what makes you great is being able to move when you need to move. Being limber, agile and roll with the punches so to speak.

I'm interested to work with Lucha Underground and as champion that would put me in the mix to work with them.

As for regret, more than anything else, my regret lies in that the WWE Universe never really got the real Austin Aries. Outside of commentary, they missed out on the chance to hear and see me be me, and do what I do best.

Defending the Impact title against Jay Lethal would be phenomenal.

I'm about making history and doing things that haven't been done before.

The more you control where your food comes from instead of relying on restaurants, fast food joints, convenience stores and other processed sources, the better off you're going to be.

In my opinion nobody owns the patent on the art form of professional wrestling and the way it does its business.

I love pizza hands down.

I like nice food. Some people like cars, nice clothes, a nice house, and I like that stuff, but I like nice foods.

As long as I can get Bobby Heenan in my corner, then I'm a happy man because, to me, Bobby Heenan is one of the most underrated performers of all time. He's in my top five of all time performers because I don't think people realize just how good he was.

At the end of the day, you can change coaches and managers and players, but if there's something intrinsic, something wrong, then you have to look at what the common denominator is, and, usually, you've got to look at the ownership because everything runs from there.

I'm kind of a skeptic at heart.

We live in a world with fake news being put out there. You don't really know what to trust, and it's a real danger to society.

You always have to keep evolving. You're always trying to improve. If you're at a standstill, you're falling behind.

I think that once I started connecting dots of where my food was coming from and the reality of that, as opposed to maybe what you think it is as a little kid, and the realities of how my food was getting to my plate and what the real effects of that are. When I started connecting those dots, I couldn't disconnect them.

From the moment I became a free agent, the WWE opportunity was the one I wanted. Obviously, there were strong plays made by some other companies, but in the end, when WWE offered me an opportunity, I could not turn it down.

I competed at 'WrestleMania 33,' and I'm telling you, leading up to what should have been the biggest moment of my life, I couldn't find an ounce of joy.

I think that weight divisions in wrestling is a little silly as we never adhere to them.

The perception is if you are not 206lbs then you can't be considered main event talent, which is foolish.

As far as being the longest-reigning X Division champion, it's a pretty remarkable achievement, due to all the men who have held it over the years.

Right before I came back to TNA, I had made the decision to just sort of step away from wrestling. Therefore I really walked into TNA holding nothing back and let the chips fall where they fell.

I've been Austin almost half my life. In almost every public setting, that's why I'm there - to be Austin Aries.

I was a choir boy my whole life.

Sometimes it can be easy to forget where your roots are or where you came from.

Wisconsin will always be home to me in a nostalgic kind of way.

I always wanted facial hair as soon as I could get it.

I always say men's facial hair is kind of like women's makeup. We know how to contour our face real nice and give ourselves nice angles and make our nose look not quite as crooked as it is.

The connector part of the mustache to the beard wasn't always really strong for me. That's kind of how it morphed, and that's kind of how my beard comes in.

Obviously, you'd like your titles to be defended at major pay-per-views. I think most fans would agree with that although it doesn't mean that always has to be the case.

I think it's funny, if you look at Brian Cage, the guy calls himself 'The Machine.' 265 lbs and spends a lot of time in the gym and eating chicken breasts. The guy comes in Impact Wrestling and instead of going after a guy like Moose or Killer Kross, who is he beating up? A bunch of guys half his size? Walking around like he's a big man.

I was the X-Division champion and competing against guys mostly my size, and I dominated them.

I battle with things like depression in my life, I battle with things like anxiety, I battle with things like attention deficit disorder, and I ignored them all.

I just want to be the greatest man that I can be while I'm alive, and in that, you have to find the truth. Find the hard truth about yourself.

I have a backbone; that doesn't make me a heel. That makes me the biggest babyface there is.

I've been trying to make it my own way in an industry full of heels walking around in babyface costumes, and that brought out the worst in me.

Every time Samoa Joe and myself have stepped in the ring, we've always created a little bit of magic.

WWE is the biggest entity in professional wrestling and if you want to prove yourself to be one of the greatest or one of the best, then that's the only place you can do it.

I think it's always good to have realistic short term goals and then lofty longer term goals.

I've always felt that wherever I go, I have to carry myself like I'm a main event guy and like I'm a star.

Chris Jericho is a guy who I grew up really appreciating what he did in the ring.

When I first started training, I guess the fact that I was undersized, it just didn't register initially. Obviously, I knew I wasn't huge and there were some bigger guys in the territories at the time, but I guess I never looked at it as a hinderance.

Is it supposed to be a championship for a certain style of wrestlers? For wrestlers under a certain weight limit? I think over the years the one thing that has held the X-Division from being in a certain spot is that it doesn't have a definition.

I'm not going to lie. I'd love to have the mic in my hand opposite of Dixie Carter in the ring and say my piece, say what's on my mind. And if she's willing to sit there and listen to it, I think it could make for some great television.

What the general public doesn't always understand is that wrestlers often only have hours to put things together, not days or weeks, except in certain cases.

At the end of the day everyone has different goals. Some people, like myself, are trying to keep size on. Some people might come in and have the opposite. So, one size doesn't fit all for nutrition.

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