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I started wrestling professionally, I did my first television match at 16, but I was wrestling at country fairs and national armories when I was 14.

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.

When I was a kid, I wrestled my high school amateur wrestling in junior year.

I grew up watching wrestling.

I always said when I was younger that I want to wrestle until I'm 40 or even in the 50s as long as I can still keep doing the same style of wrestling that I do.

First of all, I was a wrestling fan when I was young. Even when I figured out what wrestling was, I was still a fan.

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

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 was 12, I was living in Iowa, and I emailed so many wrestling schools, and one of them was actually in Boston. I joined it at 18 - the New England Pro Wrestling Academy. They were doing a fantasy camp. I was 17 about to turn 18. I told my mom, 'I'm 18 now. I just signed these papers by myself, and I'm going to do this.'

When I was a kid at four years old, that's when I started amateur wrestling with my dad and family. And when that's instilled in you, it never goes away.