Having The COURAGE To BELIEVE In Yourself...

You don't get confidence by thinking about having confidence, you know? You get confidence by action. And I never had confidence before I started wrestling. And I think that's why I was always trying to fit in with the kids that were drinking and that would make me cool and then I'd be smoking and it would take the edge off from the self-consciousness and everything that was going on at home at the time. And then when I was 15 and I just failed PE. And at the time, even though I was a little degenerate and I wasn't doing good in school, I was drinking, I was smoking, I was doing everything that I shouldn't be doing. Like I still had ambition, I still wanted to do something good in my life, I still wanted to be a lawyer or something productive in society. And I realized on one random Monday when I wanted a beer, at 15. At 15 that I needed to turn my life around, I needed to do something different, that I couldn't keep going down this pathway of failing PE and just not applying myself to anything.