I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.Daniel Bryan
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I love wrestling, and I love the entertainment aspect of wrestling, but the rest of my life, I just want to be able to live and enjoy my life. I don't want to be living it essentially for other people's entertainment.Daniel Bryan
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.Daniel Bryan
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Me, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Lyoto Machida, former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, all shared a two-bedroom apartment together.Daniel Bryan
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I'm bigger now than when I was eating meat. My lifts in the gym are better. I'm in better shape.Daniel Bryan
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I don't do really well in cities, which is crazy given that we're flying in and out of these major cities every week.Daniel Bryan
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I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.Daniel Bryan
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I have no problem with people eating meat. I would just like it, for the people who do eat meat, for the animals to be treated better. To be treated humanely. Cows in pastures living the life that they're supposed to live. I have no problem with that.Daniel Bryan
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The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.Daniel Bryan
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.Daniel Bryan
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I will say this about the Miz: Even though I don't like his wrestling style, he is a very hard worker. I have a huge amount of respect for him, and I want him to do well.Daniel Bryan
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Miz and I have known each other for a long time, and we really know, like, how to get at each other's nerves.Daniel Bryan
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I think of Bret Hart as somebody who held the Intercontinental championship like it was the World Heavyweight championship. Every title match he was in felt important, like it was the most important thing on the show. The way he carried himself and the matches he had, it was just everything I thought a champion should be.Daniel Bryan
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My mind thinks in wrestling. As I'm thinking of things and my mind is being creative, it constantly keeps going back to wrestling. That's my inspiration, and to not be able to express that puts me in a spot where I almost don't know what to do with myself.Daniel Bryan
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Sometimes there's cities where it's just hard to find healthy food. You just have to be prepared.Daniel Bryan
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That is one of the coolest things about WWE and wrestling in general. The fans have this very unique voice and this very unique power, and in no other sport and no other form of entertainment can the fans make their voices heard and it effect change.Daniel Bryan
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.Daniel Bryan
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.Daniel Bryan
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I went from being a guy who was sparingly being used on television to being the World Heavyweight Champion and the focus of a lot of the storylines on Smackdown.Daniel Bryan
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Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.Daniel Bryan
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.Daniel Bryan
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I think one of the things that really endeared me to people was that people got to view more aspects of my personality than most because of the different things that I did within WWE.Daniel Bryan
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A lot of people thought you couldn't be a top-level athlete as a vegan, but people like Mac Danzig and Jake Shields are proving that's wrong. And it's better for me as a performer.Daniel Bryan
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Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing about it - that's, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.Daniel Bryan
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I've always respected and appreciated Punk, but we never really hung out. We came from the same route, but we didn't necessarily hang out in the same circles. I've always had a great appreciation and respect for his hard work.Daniel Bryan
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When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.Daniel Bryan
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Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao was one of the worst boxing matches I've ever seen, but millions of people watched it because of the personalities involved.Daniel Bryan
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I always feel like I wasn't the best trainer, because I'm really good at teaching people stuff, but I'm not good if people aren't super psyched - if they're not like me.Daniel Bryan
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I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.Daniel Bryan
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One of the autobiographies I really liked was Bob Dylan's. It was interesting because he didn't do it in a linear fashion.Daniel Bryan
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.Daniel Bryan
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I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.Daniel Bryan
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People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.Daniel Bryan
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When I first got to WWE, the head of talent relations was John Laurinaitis, who is now my father-in-law, and the first thing I thought when I saw everything that he had to do is, I thought, 'I would never, in a million years, ever want that job. You could not pay me enough money to have that job.'Daniel Bryan
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If you watch dogs play, they run and they fight, but they don't fight to hurt each other. They just play. And that's been me my entire life.Daniel Bryan
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My brain is - essentially, you take any college football player in the country, because I have had multiple, multiple concussions. I had 10 documented concussions, four post-concussion seizures and so, but, with that said, my brain is no worse than your average college football player's brain, right?Daniel Bryan
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.Daniel Bryan
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.Daniel Bryan
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Wrestling is more of a creative outlet, and especially for somebody like me, I view it as my creative outlet. Not all WWE superstars and not all wrestlers view it that way, but that's how I view it, and that's one of the ways my mind works creatively.Daniel Bryan
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With my history of concussions, the WWE wants to protect me, so I've had to take a lot of neurological testing.Daniel Bryan
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My diet is very kale-heavy. It's so nutrient-dense. I stay away from fake processed stuff.Daniel Bryan
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I'm a terrible actor. I would suck in films! The only way I would do well is if I was playing myself, which is what I did in my career.Daniel Bryan
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I used to be vegan. I'm not anymore, but I don't eat hardly any meat. But it's nice for me to go to a place like Chipotle where I can get some fresh veggies, some brown rice, some black beans, and all that kind of stuff.Daniel Bryan
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