In professional wrestling, I'm sure in combat sports, there's always gonna be testosterone.
I listened to the veteran wrestlers that had tons of experience, like Leo Burke.
I was an amateur wrestler, which I loved. It was my passion, but I started really late; I was a junior in high school when I began.
When I wrestled, I always considered myself an athlete and a wrestler.
Leo Burke was an unbelievable trainer. Him and Tom Prichard. Tom Prichard was not a big guy. And I learned a lot from him.
The NWO was one of a kind. It was led by three mega-superstars. They knew how to work the business, especially Kevin Nash. He was literally the brains behind that machine.
No matter who I am wrestling, as long as Bobby Heenan is my manager, I'll be happy.
I was partners with Mil Mascaras and we were champions for about a year. We got over good because we had two different styles. The people respected his style when he was in the ring and when I came in they respected mine.
Why can't I beat up John Cena?
I'm trying to take wrestling to a whole different level.
To go from a small wrestling dojo to the Performance Center was just mind-blowing. The sheer scale - I didn't think anything like that could possibly exist.
I'd like to wrestle for as long as I can.
There's probably as many rules of thumb to wrestling as anything in the world, and then there's just as many exceptions to every one of those rules because somebody doesn't fit that thumb.
I'm a wrestler, so I'm used to not being paid, and I'm used to doing five or six competitions a day and paying someone else to allow me into the event.
There's a couple guys that I'd like to wrestle, but truthfully, I want to wrestle as many guys as I can.
I think that Ben Askren, when he competed as a wrestler, he was an amazing athlete.
When I came through the ranks in wrestling - in high school and college - those systems have been in place for 100 years, and they're fairly standard training across the board for all the colleges.
If you had asked me in my early 20s or in high school if I was going to wrestle, I would have laughed at you.
I was a high school wrestler. I was city champion.
I am not the son of two people skilled in wrestling; nevertheless, I am a skilful wrestler.
I liked wrestling a lot better than boxing. I remember thinking at that time that wrestling was a pure demonstration of strength, which I was interested in, while boxing was just hitting somebody or getting hit, which didn't appeal to me. But a demonstration of strength was okay, so I chose wrestling.
I learned from many people. I became a better wrestler thanks to my matches with Edge, with Christian, with Rey Mysterio, with John Cena - who, even though you, the fans, want to criticize him, John Cena is one of the best wrestlers of the universe.
When I was first starting to achieve success in the WWE, I got to be surrounded by the last class of true greats, and they all had little tips and secrets. You learn a lot from watching somebody work.
My mind thinks in wrestling. As I'm thinking of things and my mind is being creative, it constantly keeps going back to wrestling. That's my inspiration, and to not be able to express that puts me in a spot where I almost don't know what to do with myself.
I try to keep up with everything - all wrestling across the board. I want to know what the competition is doing, what the up-n-comers are doing.
