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I became a wrestling fan in college. So, I was more of a wrestling fan as an adult than when I was a little kid.

I grew up watching wrestling.

One thing I was proud of when I did the college talks was that, although stories revolved around experiences that I had in wrestling, one did not need to be a wrestling fan to enjoy them.

I just started watching wrestling in 2008, and I've loved it ever since. I told my mom I wanted to become a wrestler.

When I first got into wrestling as a kid, I would read all of the wrestling magazines I could get my hands on. There was a satisfaction discovering that there was a whole wrestling world that existed that you didn't see on TV on Saturday morning. There was this idea that there was this stuff going on there that they didn't want us to see.

When I was wrestling, I was 19, I was young.

My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports; we were all big into sports as kids, and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on, because he didn't know about sports, but he knew about wrestling.

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.

I love wrestling, and I think there was something in me that needed to come out, and I was very fortunate to allow it to come out in the WWE and make a living doing that, and I enjoyed every second of that.