Business Quote by Maria Kanellis

I left WWE because I was utterly miserable wrestling at the time and I needed to get away from the business.

— Wade Barrett

I was never let go from that company - it was my decision to leave WWE. I had enough.

— Alberto Del Rio

I had the greatest deal in the history of professional wrestling. I could work for WWE, anybody else that I wanted to, and collect…

— Samoa Joe

When I left the WWE then I wasn't unhappy with the company at all.

— Ted DiBiase Sr

When you're by yourself and not with WWE, you are your own business. And I was very successful in that business because of all…

— Drew McIntyre

I loved being in the WWE and I owe a lot of my success and where I came in my career to them.

— Kelly Kelly

For the majority of my career, I worked everywhere but the WWE.

— Samoa Joe

WWE never made me any promises just gave me an opportunity to make money.

— Shelton Benjamin

My first contract with WCW was, like, $70,000 a year. I didn't know you could make that kind of money doing this. I was…

— Booker T

I've been very fortunate - not many people have left WWE and then had the chance to reinvent themselves.

— Drew McIntyre

I had two or three jobs at the same time just I could afford myself and pay rent and school. Then I had a…

— Rusev

That's actually the main reason I decided to leave WWE: the brutal schedule that you have when you work for a company like WWE.

— Alberto Del Rio