Born on July 5th

"It's a really cool time to be a wrestling fan."

"There's no better way to start a year than to become the first-ever three-time ROH World Champion."

"I'm a very shy, introverted person."

"When you say the word 'undisputed,' what do you think of? You think of something that is untouchable, undeniable. Myself, Bobby Fish, and Kyle O'Reilly are all of those things."

"Ring of Honor is my home."

"I look at a guy like Velveteen Dream who has only been wrestling for a couple of years, and he's just filled with charisma, filled with talent."

"I'm really, really close with Kevin Owens. We talk practically every day. He was a guy who really, really helped me, both in Ring Of Honor and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla."

"If you sit around and wait for things to happen, they're not going to happen the way you want."

"My two main trainers were John Dahmer and DJ Hyde. DJ Hyde mainly taught me how to be tough: I mean, the beatings that he used to give the students as far as wrestling initiations go were as tough as they come, and I'm thankful for it."

"The only thing cooler than having a dream and accomplishing that dream is getting to do it with your buddies."

"I think that battle that you have almost never goes away. You're always questioning and hoping that stuff goes a certain way, that you get a certain reaction."

"I'm not just the best in NXT; I'm not just the best in the WWE: I'm the best on the freaking planet."

"When you're an independent wrestler, committing a lot of time and effort into honing your craft as much as possible in as many different places as possible will catch the WWE's interest as far as the independent level goes."

"There are good wrestling journalists and bad wrestling journalists. That's for sure."

"I had a tryout when I was, like, 19 and totally not prepared. I was 170 pounds with homemade gear. At that point, I realized how far I had to go to even get looked at. Then, when I was 22 or 23, I was much more prepared, and that second tryout went way better."

"When you're young, you feel like you're Superman and that you can't be hurt."

"There's so many cool things that happen, where you want to kind of sit back and smell the roses and say, 'Wow, this is awesome!' But then you're already thinking a mile ahead about what the next landmark is, what the next goal is."

"Of course the people in the Bullet Club will have similarities and always will, but finding what I can do as Adam Cole to be different is important."

"I've said this before, and I'll say this again: NXT is like a rock concert, roller coaster ride."

"I think it's fun to fantasize about the idea of NXT and ROH butting heads and seeing which one will do better, especially with WWE looking at ROH guys to hire."

"There is nothing that makes me more falsely arrogant, like, wanting to defend myself, than a TSA agent."

"For me, my number one guy would be Tanahashi from New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Like, watching him, like, this guy is a bonafide rockstar over in Japan. He can't even walk down the street without getting stopped, the way that he carries himself."

"The list of guys who have held the ROH championship, that's an elite group of guys."

"When you look back at the former Ring of Honor world champions, whether it be Daniel Bryan, CM Punk, Samoa Joe, Nigel McGuiness, the list goes on and on. These are the guys that built the lineage and importance of the Ring of Honor world championship."

"I always said to myself when I first started wrestling that I was gonna put absolutely everything into it - into becoming the absolute best pro wrestling that I could be."

"My grandmother was one of the most loving, caring, and supportive people I've ever met."

"I loved working with Jim Cornette."

"You don't make a statement unless you make noise."

"The first time I won the Ring of Honor World Championship, I was a kid - I was 23 years old."

"There are good wrestlers, great wrestlers, and special wrestlers."