Top 50 The Miz Quotes

My story was that I was egotistical, arrogant, and an absolute jerk to everyone who brags about everything – and I will – but I’ve been very fortunate to take everything and learn from it.

As a kid, growing up, my heroes all had the Intercontinental Championship. Ultimate Warrior, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Mr. Perfect, Ric Rude, all of them. And they were the people I looked up to and wanted to be like.

If you come from WWE, you have a thick skin because you’re hated on all day, every day.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

The ‘Real World‘ made me realize that I could do anything I want to more with my life.

My success, I think it is due to the Mizanan family. Everyone in my family is a hard worker.

I am on an elite level of talent.

I follow basketball, so I kind of know who LaVar Ball is; you know, I know his son Lonzo.

Like I always say, the man makes the title; the title doesn’t make the man.

The Miz is a character I created. He’s basically a wrestling star.

It’s a learning process, and now I know that even when you don’t have a title, or you’re not in a main event caliber program, you have to remain ‘main event level’ and always not allow anything to hinder that.

I’ve never had any resentment about being a reality TV star.

I’m the type of person that doesn’t quit. I just keep going and give my best effort because I don’t want to look back on my life when I’m, like, 80 or 90 and say, ‘Man, I wish I would have done this, I wish I would have done that.’ I basically go out and do it.

People have talked down to me, and that fuels my fire.

People always sit there and talk about ‘Talking Smack.’ They always bring up the incident of ‘Talking Smack.’ What did I do on there that was so terrible?

Daniel Bryan is very good at being endearing.

Do I think I’ll ever get the respect I deserve? No.

You look at John Cena – whether you love him or you hate him, he always gets a reaction. Roman Reigns has that same aura, that same ability.

I need to be highlighted. I need to be the main attraction of entertainment.

When I was in Cleveland, Ohio, if you asked me what I’d be doing in 10 years, I’d probably say, ‘I’ll own my own Mr. Hero, living in Cleveland, married with three kids.’ Now I can say I’ve literally traveled the world with WWE.

I am sick of people sitting there saying, ‘Daniel Bryan vs. The Miz.’ He doesn’t deserve to be in the ring with me. He’s not at the level that I am.

A coward is not someone who goes right to your face and tells you exactly how it is. A coward is someone who walks away.

I’ve always enjoyed bad guys throughout all movies.

When you are an elite talent, you cannot allow anyone that comes into your ‘eliteness’ and take you down. You have to make them rise to your level.

I don’t want to be the dad that’s not there. I don’t want the kid to ever think that I wasn’t there.

I am awesome. I’m the most must-see WWE superstar: I’m proven inside the ring and outside the ring. I’m the best on the mic; I get the ratings.

I want the Intercontinental title to be seen as more than just a ‘mid-card belt.’ The Intercontinental Champion used to be seen as a threat to the WWE Champion. My goal is to return the Intercontinental Championship to that level of importance.

I will be the biggest WWE Superstar the WWE has ever seen. I will be the biggest movie star movies have ever seen. I will be the biggest TV star that TV has ever seen. I will be the biggest person in the world.

I walk, talk, and act like a star, and guess what? I am a star.

That WWE Championship should be in the main event of every pay-per-view, and it upsets me when I see that it’s not.

Just because I’m confident and will tell you that I’m awesome and that I’m great, I’m all of the sudden the bad guy? Why am I always the bad guy?

Every time I’m a good guy in a movie, which is the ‘Marine,’ people are like, ‘Wow, you can play endearing. You can play kind and nice and sweet but yet hardcore.’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah. Just because The Miz is a jerk and an egotistical maniac doesn’t mean that there isn’t a softer side to Mike Mizanin.’

I remember seeing an action figure of The Rock and going, ‘You know what? I’m going to become a WWE Superstar.’

I will let my daughter do whatever her heart wants. I will support her and guide her and give her all the knowledge that I have because I want her to succeed in whatever she loves.

I was just a young kid from Parma, Ohio, and I went to college at Miami University of Ohio.

You can’t do WWE forever; like, your body will just not hold up.

The fact is I’m always going to have naysayers. You’re always going to have haters. It really doesn’t bother me because I just rise above it.

Sometimes the worst things that you can say really teach you a lot about what you can learn.

There’s no one more talented than me.

Sometimes you have go into a movie and develop a certain type of chemistry with your co-stars. Sometimes it can click from ‘Hello,’ and other times, it takes a few weeks to develop that.

MTV is where it all started for me.

I didn’t want to be the 40-year-old still on MTV doing ‘Real World.’ I loved the show. I loved the people on it, but I had a different set of goals.

When I was on ‘The Real World,’ I moved back to Cleveland, and I had a choice: My dad was like, ‘You should stay in Cleveland and be the big name out here.’ I was like, ‘But no, Dad, I wanna be a WWE superstar.’

The thing about being on a reality show is you’ll never get respect. You’re living your life on television. You’re not doing anything special.

I remember the first time I stepped into a WWE ring, and I got critiqued, and I was told I’d be gone in three months. Here I sit ten years later, and I’m the Intercontinental champion.

The ‘Real World Challenges‘ were amazing. However, Hollywood, back when I was on reality shows, did not like reality shows.

I don’t think anything can prepare you for parenthood.

I’m just a Parma kid who lived in the Sandpiper and went to Normandy. If I can do it, you can do whatever you set as your goal.

I have all the accolades, all the experience, all the knowledge you could possibly want from a WWE number one draft pick.

WWE prepares you for everything in entertainment. It’s the truth. You need a host? Get a WWE Superstar. You need someone for an action movie, a comedy movie, a drama movie, you get a WWE Superstar. Because these guys are the most well-versed, well-trained, and hardest working guys out there.