John Cena Names His Greatest Fears

His catchphrase is “Never Give Up,” not “Never Be Afraid.” John Cena has looked so indestructible throughout his career that some fans derisively called him “Super Cena.” Like everyone else, though, he has his fears, as he admitted on Wild Card With Rachel Martin.

One that might seem surprising to fans who’ve seen him jump off the top rope, or a cage, is ledges and heights. “I’m a professional fall down man,” he admits, “[but] that’s also, like, I’ll be able to walk away from this. But then you also know if it were three more feet, I can’t. So I think the ledges and heights thing is is like, ah, wouldn’t want to take that spill because I know what taking a spill feels like, you know?”

Another fear one might not expect one of the most famous people in the world to have is deep-rooted: the fear of not being heard. We saw this manifested a little bit in the neat-freak Cena seen on Total Bellas.

“That, man, that puts me in defense,” he said. “I’ve worked hard to create far more of a balance there. But I think it’s like, I started not really as anybody’s first pick as a professional, and then somehow made it to every cut. And then finally it took years for people to kind of listen to me, even though I thought I had good ideas.”

“I ended up having some ideas that were good and kind of did good not only for myself but everyone involved. So maybe there’s a fear in there that, like, oh, I’m not heard, or I’m not enough, you know. But I think this is something a lot of a lot of folks struggle with and a lot of folks think. I just think it’s okay to have fear. Why is this? Why am I feeling this way?”

He says he deals with fear by thinking it through. “I think the fear of ‘What’s the worst that could happen?’ wanes to, man, let’s go out and try to do something good.”