When you get to go out and perform on a great pro wrestling show, it's awesome. It's hard not to enjoy it. — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
I've been wrestling since I was 4 years old, so I have over 30 years in some form of wrestling, non-stop in… — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
I think 'We the People' is an example of why pro wrestling is so cool because it was a storyline that started… — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
As far as the work in the ring, it's so much technique and spacing and timing, and that's what amateur wrestling is,… — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
When I was competing at Oklahoma in college, I remember always getting a lot of anxiety before wrestling matches. Almost to the… — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
I grew up in one of the most prolific high-school-wrestling programs in the country, and MMA fighters are more successful when they… — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
I relate everything to amateur wrestling, including the way I watch basketball and the way I watch football. My brain thinks as… — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
I feel like being a professional wrestling has definitely made me a better MMA fighter. — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got in professional wrestling was use the exposure from cable's number one rated… — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
All Elite Wrestling completely changes the entire landscape of pro wrestling. — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
MMA is very difficult; you can't just be good at wrestling. You need striking, kickboxing, jiu-jitsu and countless other things. — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
I want people to say that Jack Swagger/Jake Hager is a world champion in MMA and in pro wrestling. — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
In my first fight, I acknowledged it. I'm a professional wrestler, this is who I am, who you know me as. But… — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
My junior and senior year in college is when I first realized what MMA is and really started liking it. I went… — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
Pro wrestling fans love surprises, so let's surprise them, and not just give them the old stuff. — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
Whether you speak English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, everybody can speak wrestling and it's really cool to go to different cultures and societies… — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
A long time ago I learned how to shut my mouth, listen to my coaches and put trust in my coaches. — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
When I was leaving college, getting ready to graduate with a degree in finance, I had job interviews for months and months - and… — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
A lot of people want me to say negative things about WWE, but I'm very grateful for my career there. — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
Going through life is always scary doing something new, at the same time it is very exciting. — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
I was never the best athlete, but I knew how to be coached and I knew how to work hard at it. — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
If you go back and look at WWE Magazine, they asked me when I was going to win my first world championship and I… — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
I'm a conservative. I voted for Donald Trump and back in 2016 everybody was talking about, 'Oh my God, here's another TV character trying… — Jake Hager Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
