Montel Vontavious Porter Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Montel Vontavious Porter Quotes. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!

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Brock Lesnar is soft, I’m going to say it, he’s soft.
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I get messages all the time from young men saying, ‘Hey, I got to go get a suit.’
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To go from being at the Performance Centre, essentially working in an empty warehouse, to go from that to the ThunderDome to actually being in front of a crowd at WrestleMania, is almost indescribable.
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Those who have read the book and followed my tumultuous life understand that in many ways my life parallels ‘the Count of Monte Cristo’ – the only difference is his friends sent him away and he did nothing.
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Tables are for putting things on, not putting MVP through, and if I can avoid a steel cage match and ladders and chairs, I will.
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I’m a big Manchester United fan. When I was a kid, I worked with a guy who was a Man United fan, and that was the first soccer team that I was turned on to.
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I don’t have any disparaging words about WWE.
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One thing pro wrestlers and NBA players have in common is passion.
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The truth of the matter is that I’m naturally gifted.
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When you go to work, you do what your bosses tell you to do. If your bosses tell you to do something a certain way, you do it. If you get to a point where you don’t want to do it anymore, you either: do what they tell you to do or leave, which was part of the reason why I decided to go to New Japan.
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I have a gym in my house where I work out.
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Sometimes that’s all the kids need, just one person to look at them and say, ‘man he’s just like me. If he can do it, I can do it.’ And that means a lot to me.
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AJ Styles has proven time and time again that he is phenomenal, and sleeping on AJ Styles is a bad move.
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Apollo Crews is tremendously talented. One of the things that impressed me the most about Apollo is his coach-ability; he wants to improve, he wants to learn, he’s got a tremendous attitude and he’s eager to do well.
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If somebody comes to me and asks advice or for a criticism, I have no issue giving it to them because at the end of the day, we all win and the fans win, and that’s what it’s all about.
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I remember when ‘Pac-Man’ was great, and ‘Pong’ and all of these primitive video games.
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My signature move is the ballin’ elbow, because I’m a baller.
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I will say this: love Vince McMahon or hate Vince McMahon, no matter what you feel about him, he has always treated me well.
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Any time you have two talents on the screen, the whole point is to create compelling television. You want to create something that the fans are going to tune in to watch.
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When I go to Canada, there’s all kinds of legal paperwork that has to be done. There’s a special permit.
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In our society, if an individual commits a crime, he or she is sent to prison and they’re supposed to repay their debt to society by serving their time. But, more and more, our institutions are taking away educational programs; they’re taking away the Pell Grants so that people can take college courses.
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Historically all of the greats, Stone Cold Steve Austin, that’s Steve with the volume turned way up to his personality, Dwayne Johnson is The Rock, he just turns his volume on his personality way up.
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To borrow a very popular phrase, I’m a Paul Heyman guy.
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Sometimes people say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so if you look at my tattoos and you know what you’re reading, you can draw a lot from them.
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I just want to be the best every time I go out and I want to work with the best and I want everyone around me to want to be the best.
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For me Japan was my dream and the WWE was my goal, so making it to the WWE and actually standing in that ring for the first time in front of millions of people nationally and tens of millions of people internationally, I was there, I was at the show! it was so real, that’s the best way I can describe it.
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The Lashley that you see on the screen is Lashley when he’s his own personality turned way up. MVP is me, with my volume, my personality volume on 11. If you look, that’s the reason that we work so well.
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In terms of adjustments, I’m just adjusting to life after wrestling while I can still wrestle. I will still wrestle periodically for the most part, I enjoy stepping into a Paul Heyman type role.
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On a personal note, I used to work for years out on South Beach, running security in nightclubs and doing bodyguard work.
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Generally speaking, I’m lazy. I really don’t like to do anything but sit around and chill out and watch TV, but if it’s something I like, if it’s something I’m into, then no one can outwork me.
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At 16, I was facing 11 life felonies.
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I have always dreamed of being an IWGP Champion.
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I don’t want to see a kid get hurt trying to imitate me or trying to do something he or she has seen one of my peers do.
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People know MVP but not many people know the man that became MVP and what I had to go through and overcome to get there.
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I just try to keep it real with myself and everybody else.
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As WWE superstars we have the unique ability to encourage young people who may be following the wrong path to change their lives for the better.
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I remember when Michael Jackson as an act, as a talent, was untouchable and was in a realm all his own.
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Leaving the sports entertainment style of WWE to go to the hard hitting and strong style of New Japan was a very easy transition for me because it was what I always wanted to do.
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Fortunately, my talent is on loan from God. You see, I’m half-man, half-amazing, which is what allowed me to become United States Champion in less than a year after joining WWE.
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I have never in my life been the type to give things away. Sorry, just not my style.
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There was a prison guard that introduced me to pro wrestling and I needed a hobby, so I devoted myself to it – I lived it, ate it and slept it and that’s how I became MVP. So people might think MVP was an overnight success, but I had to travel a long way to get there.
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Wrestling saved my life.
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We Americans have a lot to learn about how sports should be done.
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People put football players up there for being tough, but if you look at the schedule and the actual minutes played, NBA players are among the greatest athletes on the planet. There’s no question about it.
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There are people who often, say, ‘Racism doesn’t exist anymore.’ And, ‘Nobody’s racist anymore.’ And, to that I say, all you have to do is go on Youtube and read the comments. That will tell you just how racist people will be if they can’t be called out on it.
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I was in the sixth grade the first time I saw ‘Rambo.’
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I’ve actually had tailors tell me they’ve had young men saying they want to get a suit like The Hurt Business.
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Professional wrestling is the first non-criminal activity that I truly, truly applied myself to and believed in and devoted myself to. Otherwise, everything else I did was a whatever. I had no real interest in it, it came and went.
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Years ago when I had my first dark match against Norman Smiley, Norman took me to the side and introduced me to Booker and we spent a few minutes talking and he gave me some advice and back then he was kind enough to give me his number and told me to give him a call if I ever needed any advice.
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I made bad decisions, and I take responsibility for those bad decisions.
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I do know if you lace up a pair of boots, Kurt Angle is someone you want to get in the ring with.
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I do remember watching the cartoon, ‘Rambo,’ and I had some of the action figures.
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After having been at WWE and being somebody who was being groomed to be a world champion, I ran afoul of some politics and spent three months on a losing streak. I had a confrontation with one of the executives.
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When you are the WWE Champion, you have an X right on your forehead.
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If you don’t like somebody because of the God that they worship, or because of the color of their skin… there’s something wrong with you, not them.
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