Top 35 Eli Drake Quotes

Yeah and that’s the thing, you can have a 100 different chat shows, they can all look the same and do the same thing, but if you can get in there and set something apart, you win.

As far as my goals are concerned, Eli Drake needs to be a household name any and everywhere it can be. Aside from that I want to rack up championships.

The weird thing about me is that I’m naturally an introvert, so I don’t talk to people.

As far as backstage, the morale has always been good. It’s very relaxed backstage. No one’s walking on eggshells and there’s no one stabbing another in the back. It’s always been really good.

When I was at the Performance Center, I was super hated for probably two or three months because I’m a quiet guy. I’m very much an introvert and it shocks people when they see what I do on TV because I’m verbose and I talk a lot.

I don’t make good connections with people and I don’t know if that’s an emotional block on my part. I don’t know.

A lot of people try to evolve in unreasonable ways and I don’t agree with them. But you must evolve and be better than the same guy next to you, at the same time being able to work with the guy next to you.

Comedy and silliness has a place in wrestling, but there’s still gotta be some level of believability.

For so long, it felt like I was doing great things that nobody was seeing. Now to be featured on television, doing the things I was doing and being able to be seen on a worldwide scale, it was huge.

You’re running a business, and at the end of the day, if you’re running a business, you’ve got to make money.

You know, Billy Corgan has a big vision. He has a great idea for what he wants to do and how he wants to distribute it and I have always liked Billy and Dave Lagana’s platform as far as being more character-driven and just kind of let us do our own thing and let the talent be talented.

I like the idea of not being stuck in a warehouse five days a week. That’s not a shot at anybody, that’s a fact of life, if you will.

It’s been phenomenal to finally be recognized for my talents and to be on a worldwide stage where people can see me, see what I do and see what I say. It’s really been incredible.

I enjoy that competition. All that does is light a fire under me, and once that happens I start to get hot whether it’s verbally or physically, but it’s actually good fuel.

There’s a big etiquette thing with wrestling, but every day you come in, you shake everybody‘s hand, you introduce yourself, you say hello.

But the general audience, if you want to grow your audience you need to tell stories, you need to have characters, and that’s how you bring them in. That’s my favorite part of the business.

I have this personality, where I’m a natural introvert in my personal life, but when you give me a camera and microphone, I have a so much to say.

I’ve always enjoyed my wrestling being geared more so towards adults.

I wasn’t around in the old days, but if you look at guys from the 70s, 80s and 90s, back then these guys were the kind of guys that if you walked up to them in a bar you would not go up to them and talk trash to.

I’m loving life, making money doing what I love to do, making good money and living comfortably. I drive a corvette and live in L.A., baby!

I was one of the top paid guys at Impact, thankfully. With that money, I invested a bunch of it and I’ve been taking classes on learning day trading with stocks.

In all honesty, I’m super happy to be where I am, doing what I’m doing and making a living doing what I love to do.

When I was on the indies back in 2008, I had an opportunity with WWE when I went in and did a dark match and they liked me and wanted me to come back the next week.

I feel like you gotta know how to roll with the punches and how to just be able to work and think on your feet.

I didn’t care about a Dean Malenko; I’m sorry, Dean, I actually like you, you’re a nice guy personally, amazing worker in the ring, but it’s just boring if you can’t tell me a story?

I think I won the Feast or Fired briefcase every time I was in the match.

I just like my lifestyle living in L.A. I didn’t want to move to any other state, I didn’t want to go anywhere else.

Look at the wrestling business today. You’ve got a bunch of guys jumping around doing dangerous stunts and silly-looking dance moves. Like, I’m gonna dance before I kick you in the head or whatever.

I don’t even like wrestling really small guys a lot of the time. It just feels phony.

AEW, there was interest there. We kind of had a deal worked out, but that ended up falling through. And then, I talked to Ring Of Honor. I talked to NWA. The most appealing offer I had was from NWA with Billy Corgan and Dave Lagana.

I am interested in anyone who has something interesting for me to do and who is going to pay me well.

The biggest advertising dollars are coming from television – not to mention there’s just a certain ‘aura‘, there’s a certain feeling about being on TV where it still is special to a lot of people.

I don’t think most guys can handle a mic even close to what I do if I’m honest and I say that with no ego, that’s the honest truth. I know what I do and I’m self aware.

I’ll be 100 percent honest, any time I’ve been given a promo, I’ve used three to five percent of it, which is usually what are the bullet points, what’s the direction I’m going in, what points do I need to get across, what am I putting over, and that’s it.

I think that there is eventually going to transition in to a way where – I think cable is eventually going to go the same way as just regular radio. Where people still listen to it, it still exists, but for the most part, they’ve got MP3, they’ve got satellite radio, they’ve got Pandora.