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Triple H: Charisma often matters more for success than technical knowledge
“For a lot of people, sometimes can be a lot less about all the things you know and how good you are at them as the charisma to get people to listen to you.”
Triple H: The most charismatic candidate wins every presidential election
“Yeah, I mean, I think if you go back through history, even in politics, and you look at the person that gets elected in every presidential cycle, it's the most charismatic person on that stage that gets elected president.”
Triple H: WWE abandoned its streaming app to avoid a tech war
“We then realized that over time, that's going to be a tech war. That we're not suited for. It's not what we do. We pulled out of that.”
Triple H: Successful WWE talent are equipped for almost any career
“When you leave WWE, whether you've been there for a long time or, you know, if you've been, had any level of success, you are so well suited to do just about anything”
Triple H: The best wrestling villains internally justify their actions
“I have a saying in what I do right now, as long as the bad guy, the heel, is justified somewhere in his mind that what he is doing is right, that leads to the best heel, right?”
Triple H: WWE reflects society rather than leading it
“I don't know that we necessarily lead society, WWE. I wouldn't want to think that, but I think we reflect it.”
Triple H: WWE prioritizes character storylines over match quality
“We don't write the shows based on that'll be a great match. We write it on the stories that we can create, the protagonist, the antagonist, how does that work with each other, telling stories that can resonate with people that maybe they've experienced in thei…”
Triple H: WWE's creative planning is closer to Marvel than MMA
“I would say we're much more akin to, like, the Marvel universe where you're planning out long-term where the movies fit and how they go with all the characters than we are, you know, direct MMA.”
Triple H: WWE operates one of sports' most robust medical programs
“We have probably one of the most robust medical programs in athletics so we're scanning constantly for everything you know, physically as well as head injuries, everything, right?”
Triple H: Modern wrestling must blur the lines of the fourth wall
“Today you have to sort of blend who you are real life with the character that you play and sort of blur this line of the fourth wall”
Triple H: WWE boasts roughly 1 billion global social media followers
“We have right around a billion social media followers across the globe.”