I started at the bottom and worked my way up. I think that shows hard work pays off. A good thing takes a while.
Cesaro
I think you can learn from pretty much everybody if you just open your eyes.
You can't just copy someone. There are so many different styles that you can just kind of pick and choose whatever it is you'd like to do.
The Giant Swing is a throwback. I used it prior to WWE quite a bit. One of the days, I thought about bringing it back. It connected with the crowd. I've been doing it ever since.
Growing up in Switzerland, you learn German pretty much from day one in school. You learn French and Italian as well. I took English as an extra language because I figured that was the language of the world.
UFC, definitely not - I do not think that is a fit for me. I am looking forward to seeing CM Punk's UFC debut, and I hope he does really well. But it is not something that I want to do.
Austin's a great wrestling town. There's a lot of WWE fans when we get there, and they're always really loud.
In the '90s, there was a big wrestling boom in Switzerland with Hulk Hogan, the Ultimate Warrior, and all those guys. It was on television in Switzerland on a German TV station for a year or so. That's when I saw wrestling for the first time. I was in the fifth or sixth grade and was a fan of it right away.
There's always a transition if you go to a new territory or a new company or a new country or wherever because there's different styles and different crowds that you perform in front of. Of course, it always takes a little bit of time to find your groove.
Of course, to be WWE world champion is definitely on my list. Anybody who is not reaching for that proverbial brass ring is doing something wrong if they're in the WWE.
My style is different from everybody else's because I've traveled so much and wrestled in so many places. I took something from everywhere I went, and I think that WWE's most accomplished superstars have also done that in the past.
I learned a lot from Paul Heyman, and I thought we had a great time. I've now gone out on my own, but he is somebody whose advice I trust.
I like to try new stuff and experiment. That's why I think it's entertaining to watch my matches, because you never know what I'm going to do, and you see things that you've never seen before.
I was a big fan of Kurt Angle when I was growing up. Actually, his book is a big part of the reason that I work out so hard.
'SmackDown,' I feel, has more excitement than 'Raw,' even though 'Raw' is always branded as the flagship show.
You have to be extremely fit. It is a professional sport. We have five shows a week. In 2014, I had 220 matches; in 2015, I was on the way to a similar amount before I got hurt. It is a full-time lifestyle. It is very demanding.
I didn't come over with a comfy sponsor that took care of my visa and paid me a good amount of money right away. I came over here with nothing, the little bit of money that I had saved up, and it was struggle and plight to get some recognition and then finally make it to the WWE.
I have a lot of maneuvers in my back pocket, so to speak. And to me, the thing is to always surprise the audience so they're always seeing something new, and not just get stuck in the same rut.
In the ring, I'm probably the strongest WWE superstar.
I think I have faced pretty much everyone that is in the WWE.
I care nothing about American football.
I feel 'SmackDown' has the absolute best tag teams in the world: we have us; we have The New Day. We have the Usos. We have The Club. We have Sanity. We have the Hardys. We have Rusev and Nakamura.
There's a place called Chipotle in the U.S. It's Mexican food where everything is made to order; you can get some rice, black beans, and meat. That's what I eat three times a day.
You only get one chance to make the first impression. And I made the biggest first impression ever by throwing the Big Show over the top rope.
To me, the Cesaro Section is the WWE Universe, and I really appreciate all the support.
I still believe in old school values, I still believe in hard work, I still believe in wrestling, and people have showed that's what they want to see.
There's definitely some stuff that I wear or used to wear, or I used to do in the ring, that I look back, and I'm like, 'Oh, what was I thinking?'
To me, it's not all about how much weight you can lift in the weight room. It's how you can manipulate weight in the ring.
I was always a very athletic kid, and I always played as many sports as possible and always tried to do new things.
The last time I was in Abu Dhabi, I had a blast. I went jet-skiing in the Arabian Gulf, I went to Ferrari World, and went to Sheikh Zayed Mosque. I just enjoyed the city and the life. It was just amazing, and I am really looking forward to coming back.
I was a big fan of wrestling growing up and of WWE.
Hard work pays off if you stay true to yourself and dedicated.
In my opinion, tag team wrestling is absolutely fantastic. It's very exciting, and I just wish it would be given a bigger chance and platform, especially at 'SmackDown.'
I think, over my career, if you look at it in WWE, Sheamus has always been one of my biggest adversaries and one of the ones I would like to say I had some very memorable bouts with. It's definitely fun to be in the ring with him.
I guess I'm just a tough cookie.
I used to live in Philly, so I was in Baltimore a lot wrestling before I got to WWE, wrestling for different promotions.
If the audience likes and appreciates a move, it gives the wrestlers in a ring a little bit of extra energy, and you can always use that.
I'm sick of seeing John Cena against Randy Orton for the 500th time.
I'm the first one to always criticize myself, and I'm trying to find ways to get better.
If you look at the Intercontinental Champion, historically, that has always belonged to the best of the best in-ring talent, the best wrestler, whatever you want to call it, that came out night after night, produced night after night - and that will be me.
As long as you work hard, good things will come. I firmly believe that.
I feel like everything in WWE I earn the hard way.
I grew up with WWE and New Japan, but when I started traveling to Germany, I had the chance to train with people like Christian Eckstein and Tony St. Clair. They were two of the cornerstones of the German 'beer tent' wrestling era, when they'd have 30-day tournaments in the same town.
We take care of each other. I took care of Sheamus when he had a hole in his head - and he took care of me when I had no teeth.
Hard work doesn't guarantee success, but it does enhance its chances.
People hide behind fake names to tweet negative comments, and I hate that. If you have something to say, own up to it.
My brain can form thoughts that come out through my mouth. The problem is sometimes I stumble the words because I speak five different languages - we know all that - so the thing is, I like to speak the language that everybody speaks all around the world, that the WWE Universe loves... that's the language of wrestling that I do in the ring.
I made a little name for myself in Europe, but when I moved to the United States, I had to start all over again.
I'm a really big fan of the history of wrestling.
There is nothing like WWE live.
