Kazuchika Okada

IWGP is the number one title in the world.

— Kazuchika Okada

My dropkick is from Mexico, but my fighting spirit is from Japan.

— Kazuchika Okada

I was a young age, 16 years old, in Mexico. I traveled to these different countries, and I have the new style…

— Kazuchika Okada

Dropkicks are old moves, but I wanted to make a new version of an old move.

— Kazuchika Okada

I heard of the word 'rainmaker.' It means one particular star who could make a company or project rich and successful. Someone…

— Kazuchika Okada

I think it's cool to be able to show people who don't know anything about NJPW what we do.

— Kazuchika Okada

To have a Japanese wrestler standing as the face of professional wrestling, there's only one person for that spot, and it's me.

— Kazuchika Okada

Of course I wanted to main-event wrestling matches in TNA, but in their eyes, no, that would not happen. So I went…

— Kazuchika Okada

I love working in front of American crowds.

— Kazuchika Okada

Tenryu is a legend in Japan.

— Kazuchika Okada

I want to keep going to new audiences and showing people firsthand how great NJPW is.

— Kazuchika Okada

I learned in TNA that I needed more than just a good match - I needed a character. That's how I became…

— Kazuchika Okada

Many people ask me about WWE and if I'd go to WWE in the future. They ask me if I'm going now.…

— Kazuchika Okada

My dream is to bring a G1 tournament to the United States. I want to do a G1 in front of American…

— Kazuchika Okada

TNA didn't use me, but I got hungrier to wrestle. The struggle made me better.

— Kazuchika Okada

I like doing the shows with Ring of Honor, but I don't want to leave Japan.

— Kazuchika Okada

When I was just a strong wrestler, TNA didn't use me. I didn't have a character, so I knew I needed one.

— Kazuchika Okada

There is more emotion in a match in New Japan. The matches here in the U.S. are so fast that sometime they…

— Kazuchika Okada

Jay White has a great chance to make his name off of me. But I'm not going to make that easy.

— Kazuchika Okada

I really appreciate ROH for letting me wrestle in the United States. American fans get to see me and get to see…

— Kazuchika Okada

Hell, I might want to be like some other people and become a movie star or join the UFC. You never know.

— Kazuchika Okada

I am new school, but Ultimo Dragon taught me that wrestling is a fight. He taught me the importance of the fighting…

— Kazuchika Okada

Being the longest-reigning champion isn't that big a deal to me because records are made to be broken.

— Kazuchika Okada

So, wrestling, being strong, having good matches? I learned that in New Japan. But as a TV character? TNA was good.

— Kazuchika Okada

I had no aspirations beyond middle school except to wrestle, no reason to go into high school. This world is all I've…

— Kazuchika Okada