CM Punk

Athlete

1978-10-26

Quotes by CM Punk

• I don't smoke. I don't drink. I don't use drugs. That may be boring for some people, but that's just me. That's how I live my life.

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• I think, at some point in my wrestling career, I took myself way too seriously, and I took the wrestling business way too seriously. It probably helped sour me on the whole process. It probably helped burn me out.

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• I have a special place in my heart for the Straight Edge Society. Never reached its full potential.

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• I'm somebody who constantly wants to challenge himself, evolve, and grow. Because if you don't, you fade. You become stagnant.

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• I've shattered every negative stereotype people had about me.

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• I don't measure myself against my coaches, I don't measure myself against my teammates. If I'm doing jiu-jitsu for sport, I don't measure myself against the guy I'm rolling with or whatever belt he is or how many stripes he has on his belt. I measure myself every day against the guy I was yesterday.

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• I like winning or losing, failing or succeeding on my own merit.

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• Black cats cross my path all the time. I'll break a mirror. I have no regard for superstition.

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• I'm not superstitious about anything in my life - except for playoff hockey. I get really kind of sketchy and weird about it. I don't like talking about it. I don't like making predictions.

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• The day of my wedding, I got a FedEx in the mail. It was my termination papers. I was fired... on my wedding day.

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• My life used to be governed by that. I would know what day it was because I would be at 'Monday Night Raw' or 'SmackDown' on Tuesday.

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• I think smartphones need to send an electrical shock to a user when they get their your/you're mixed up.

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• I don't mind getting punched in the face. It kind of wakes me up and gets me excited.

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• Any praise goes to my coaches and my teammates. I have the easy part of waking up and going to the gym. They're the ones that have to break my bad habits and teach me new things. They're literally my everything. In my personal life, it's my wife, and in my professional life, it's my coaches and my teammates.

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• I do envision myself having kids one day, and I always wanted a little girl.

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• There's such a wide demographic who watches the WWE. And everybody's into something different.

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• I did not wake up one day and say, 'I wanna be famous.' I did not wake up and say, 'I wanna be a UFC fighter.' I woke up and said, 'I want to be successful at something I want to do. I want to fight.'

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• It's easy to quit. It's easy to not get something that you want and just say, 'Well, that didn't work out,' and move on to the next thing.

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• WWE doesn't do anything to protect the wrestlers; they do things to protect themselves.

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• Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it. Countless people tell me, 'I got into wrestling because my grandfather watched it.' It was always there.

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