Bryan Danielson On Why He’s Avoided Coming Up With A New Catchphrase

Bryan Danielson stopped using the ‘Yes’ catchphrase when he arrived in AEW and never came up with a new one. During a Starrcast V media scrum (via Fightful), Danielson said that he avoided coming up with a new catchphrase and explained why he thinks it’s a good thing.

He said: “So it’s interesting, one of the things that I’ve tried to avoid is doing any sort of catchphrase. The reason why is, it came to become a crutch, and when people expect something of you, and you need to give that to them, that almost feels like it pins me down more than it helps me. One of the people I really respect from an artist’s perspective is Bob Dylan. So if you go to like an Aerosmith concert, you’re gonna want to see the hits, right. When you buy a ticket to a Bob Dylan concert, you might want him to play certain songs, but you know going in, he’s gonna play whatever the fuck he wants, and that’s kind of what I want my wrestling career to be now. I want people, ‘Ah maybe I hope that he does this,’ but they’re gonna be happy with kind of whatever, just me being creative and doing what I love to do.“