“My transformation represents more than what is just skin deep; it represents my motivation, drive, and willingness to constantly improve.”
― Jinder Mahal
“Honestly, nothing tastes as good as feeling good.”
― Jinder Mahal
“The whole ‘SmackDown’ roster has a chip on its shoulder.”
― Jinder Mahal
“Mentally, you can’t expect positive things to start happening in your life with a negative attitude.”
― Jinder Mahal
“MMA, cricket, or anything, you cannot just coast. Every day, you have to wake up hungry.”
― Jinder Mahal
“The first thing I do when I wake up is cardio on an empty stomach. I’ll just drink water, or maybe I’ll have a black coffee with no sugar, and I’ll do about 25 minutes of cardio, six days a week.”
― Jinder Mahal
“The secret to my success is persistence.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I haven’t read ‘The Secret,’ but I know what it’s about, just having positive energy around you and being positive, and things start happening. I’m really, honestly, a firm believer of this.”
― Jinder Mahal
“We are here to entertain and ultimately put smiles on people’s faces.”
― Jinder Mahal
“India has very motivated and talented people, and given the right opportunity, we always rise to the top.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I am first one in the gym, I do cardio before I have breakfast, and I am training hard every day.”
― Jinder Mahal
“’SmackDown Live’ is a great place with a great roster and many talented superstars.”
― Jinder Mahal
“The sky is truly the limit for WWE.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I want to cement my own legacy and, most importantly, motivate the youth of India and make all of India proud.”
― Jinder Mahal
“Every day is a blessing in WWE, and I keep reminding myself of that. That’s my character.”
― Jinder Mahal
“Diet hard, train hard.”
― Jinder Mahal
“You can actually eat very clean at Chipotle. They have white rice, they have brown rice, and they have chicken. I stay away from the guac and the sour cream. I just get lettuce, double-meat chicken, and a white or brown rice.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I would love to take the WWE championship back to India. Nobody has ever taken a WWE championship to India, so just to think about the power that I would have to motivate the youth and to inspire a tremendous amount of people there is amazing.”
― Jinder Mahal
“It is an honor to represent the people of India every time I step into the ring.”
― Jinder Mahal
“If you eat every two hours, your body doesn’t really hold much fat, and it actually speeds up your metabolism.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I take a magnesium supplement before my workout because it prevents cramping.”
― Jinder Mahal
“Being part of ‘Raw 1000’ in the same ring with Undertaker and Kane leading an army of young hungry wrestlers was amazing.”
― Jinder Mahal
“In Birmingham, England, I had a match with Tyson Kidd, and Mick Foley was at ringside and delivered a socko to me at the end of the match. That was another one of those moments that, if you told me I would be in the ring with Mick Foley giving me a socko, I wouldn’t believe you.”
― Jinder Mahal
“When I am on ‘Raw’ and ‘Smackdown,’ I try to make the best of it.”
― Jinder Mahal
“In order to succeed in WWE, you’re responsible. If you put in 100 percent, you get back 100 percent.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I have a very positive outlook. I set goals for myself, and I write down my goals.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I’m a firm believer that you get back what you put in.”
― Jinder Mahal
“If I aspire to be the king of WWE, one day if I keep working at it, I will be the king of WWE.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I’m an example that, in the WWE, there are opportunities for people who work hard, improve constantly.”
― Jinder Mahal
“What I do normally is I do the cardio, then I’ll eat – protein shake, oatmeal, banana – then I’ll hit the gym, and I’ll be in the gym for two hours.”
― Jinder Mahal
“Rob Gronkowski cost me the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, and I haven’t forgot that.”
― Jinder Mahal
“There was originally no plan in place for me to become WWE champion. It felt like I became the No. 1 contender out of nowhere. I call what I did forcing the results. I wasn’t happy with my position. I was putting in the work, but I wasn’t getting the results. I was going to force the result no matter what the cost.”
― Jinder Mahal
“Sometimes, guys are in a slump, or you feel like you’re not doing anything with the company, and I felt like that for years. But it can all change.”
― Jinder Mahal
“You never know when the break is going to come, so you have to keep plugging away.”
― Jinder Mahal
“Every time I write down my goals, I realize that I have to hit the gym. I have to eat right. I have to improve in the ring. I have to give it 100%. I have to improve on my promos. These are the things that go through my head daily because I work hard on them.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I listen to a lot of audio books and business-related books. All of the great businessmen have one thing in common: they write down their goals. They keep a journal. Not only that, but I write down my goals, and I check it off: whether or not I ate right, work out, check it off.”
― Jinder Mahal
“At the end of the day, I write down an ‘L’ or a ‘W,’ whether or not the day was a ‘Loss’ or if it was a ‘Win.’ It really bothers you to have to write down an ‘L.’ An ‘L’ looks like a day I ate a lot of junk food, or I didn’t work out when I was supposed to or train when I was supposed to train, or if I felt that I had a bad performance in the ring.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I was on ‘SmackDown’ TV when I was 24. I was released when I was 27 and came back at 29.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I behave. I lock myself in my hotel room every night.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I had become complacent in WWE when I got released in 2014. I had become unmotivated. I wasn’t driven. I was out of shape and just not focussed.”
― Jinder Mahal
“Getting released in 2014 was the best thing that happened to me because I got to regain my focus, regain my pride, and come back as the best-conditioned athlete there is in WWE, which ultimately led me to become the single greatest WWE champion.”
― Jinder Mahal
“We don’t want to upset our fans, because that’s not what we are here to do.”
― Jinder Mahal
“If a situation came about something that would offend someone culturally, I would definitely speak up. WWE would want us to speak up because negative press is not our goal.”
― Jinder Mahal
“WrestleMania is amazing.”
― Jinder Mahal
“Obviously, in WWE, everyone is on top of their game.”
― Jinder Mahal
“WWE is the epitome of Sports Entertainment; it gets no bigger than this. So, whether you are on ‘Raw’ or on ‘SmackDown,’ the level of talent that we have on both sides is second to none.”
― Jinder Mahal
“One of my goals is to become a WWE Hall of Famer.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I beat Randy Orton, one of the all-time greats, you know. Why can’t I beat a Brock Lesnar?”
― Jinder Mahal
“Why can’t I beat AJ Styles? I beat AJ Styles in the past before.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I think I’m going to be successful in WWE.”
― Jinder Mahal
“Every day, you have to put in the hard work.”
― Jinder Mahal
“You can’t just become complacent or lazy, or then the decline happens.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I would tell Vince McMahon, ‘Hey! I’m telling you, I’m going to run this place one day.’ And I think Vince likes to hear that. He knew I was motivated. He knew I was hungry.”
― Jinder Mahal
“Even in WWE, you believe it when it happens. Because anything can happen in the WWE at the last minute. Things happen, things change, and decisions are made.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I want to be the IC Champion. I want to be the U.S. Champion. I want to be the tag team champion. I want to hold all the championships.”
― Jinder Mahal
“The Big Show and Mark Henry and even John Cena helped me along my journey.”
― Jinder Mahal
“Two months before I re-signed with WWE, I decided just out of nowhere that I will start dieting, to work on my body and train harder. I started focusing more. Two months later, WWE called me back to re-sign. That was not a coincidence but the universe telling me that I am ready.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I don’t eat any junk food.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I eat every two hours to balance my diet.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I drink protein shakes when I travel. That is how I maintain myself, and I exercise six days a week.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I knew that I’d be able to climb the mountain, but in such a short period? I didn’t think so. I mean, ‘SmackDown Live’ is the land of opportunity, and I’m a living proof of that.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I want to be one of the greatest champions of all time. And it’s a good pressure – I need this pressure. Because if pressure is making me work, if it’s making me work harder – it was hard work to get to the championship, to win the championship.”
― Jinder Mahal
“When I came to WWE – I got signed when I was 23. When I was on ‘SmackDown’ roster, the main roster, I was 24. I wasn’t ready for those responsibilities. I wasn’t – I wasn’t seasoned enough as a wrestler, as an in-ring performer.”
― Jinder Mahal
“My rise in WWE was kickstarted by my physical transformation.”
― Jinder Mahal
“Wrestlemania 34 was a huge moment for me both professionally and personally.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I think I am the most dominant superstar in WWE.”
― Jinder Mahal
“WWE is such a universal form of entertainment. I believe that you can watch WWE in mute and still know what is going on.”
― Jinder Mahal
“WWE is growing every day, every week, and every month.”
― Jinder Mahal
“Daniel Bryan had the ‘Yes’ Movement. That was phenomenal.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I’m fantasizing about being the best superstar I can be and improving.”
― Jinder Mahal
“There is no food in the world that gives you a better feeling of walking around with veins bulging out, six-pack abs. It’s the best feeling in the world.”
― Jinder Mahal
“Instead of fantasizing about food, I’m fantasizing about the WWE championship.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I eat 30/40 grammes of carbohydrates, 30/40 grammes of proteins with every meal.”
― Jinder Mahal
“The Singh Brothers are good. I’ve actually known them for a long time.”
― Jinder Mahal
“When I originally debuted in 2011, I was on ‘SmackDown.’ At the time, they were separate from ‘RAW,’ so I feel at home on ‘SmackDown.’”
― Jinder Mahal
“Definitely, as an Indian, I’m seen as an outsider, and definitely, the jeers come from that. But I enjoy it; I even encourage it. Whatever noise they make when I’m in the ring, it motivates me, drives me to do better.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I’m from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and my family is Punjabi.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I’m very proud to represent the great nation of India.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I’m really proud to represent both cultures, Canadian and Indian, and hopefully I’m making both countries proud as WWE champion.”
― Jinder Mahal
“There’s a huge Indian population here in Toronto. Also, Calgary, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Edmonton – Canada really is a great multicultural country.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I believe that every WWE superstar is in charge, 100 percent, of his own destiny.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I believe Randy Orton is one of the greatest of all time.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I know the way WWE works. Things change last minute.”
― Jinder Mahal
“When I started wrestling, I was still in high school.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I wrestled Tyler Breeze one time when there was, like, 20 people at the show.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I’m Punjabi and speak Punjabi fluently and know all the Indian customs and everything.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I learned Punjabi before I learned English in spite of the fact that I was born in Canada.”
― Jinder Mahal
“My uncle wrestled in the late ’80s to early ’90s, and I was too young to see his matches. However, he has always supported me in my journey, and I think that without his support, all this would not have been possible. He taught me a lot, and he is the reason that I’m a WWE wrestler.”
― Jinder Mahal
“Personally, I am hoping being champion will increase the WWE Universe in India because I know that Indian fans are really passionate, and I want to be WWE Champion in India.”
― Jinder Mahal
“WWE sees India as huge opportunity and wants to continue to build its base.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I was really into sports, playing track and field, amateur wrestling, volleyball, and soccer. I was a very active kid and teenager.”
― Jinder Mahal
“One of my goals is definitely to motivate the youth towards sports. Whether it’s arts or academics, I just want to let them know that anything is possible. To think that I grew up as a WWE fan and now I’m a WWE champion proves that through hard work anything really is possible.”
― Jinder Mahal
“As long as I can remember, I was a WWE fan. I wanted to grow up and be a WWE superstar just like my favorites.”
― Jinder Mahal
“My favorite growing up was Bret Hart. I just idolized him when I was a child; he was my hero.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I have no problem with Brock Lesnar being a part-timer, because he’s earned that spot. He’s a multiple time champion in WWE, a former UFC Champion, NCAA amateur wrestling champion, so his accolades speak for themselves.”
― Jinder Mahal
“I want to retire, when it’s all said and done, as one of the greats.”
― Jinder Mahal
“Every day in WWE is blessing, and every day, I have to outwork my competition.”
― Jinder Mahal
“WWE is a global juggernaut; it is the pinnacle. It is a global entity. You have superstars from Australia, China, Japan.”
― Jinder Mahal
“Calgary prides itself on being a wrestling town.”
― Jinder Mahal
“The most passionate fans are from India, and I hope that I can motivate more Indians to pursue wrestling – or any athletics, for that matter – and become champions.”
― Jinder Mahal
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