I'm the hype guy, I'm the high-energy guy.
I played football my whole life, pretty much.
Wrestling was always the first thing I ever wanted to do.
I made it to the NFL and I had an injury, a really bad injury, actually, where I was out for 18 months in football. And the doctor said it was career-ending.
You can't sign up for this kind of wrestling in school, so I went the football route first and I was successful at it.
The Full Sail crowd was one that I had a very special relationship with, when I first debuted they were right there with me and very supportive.
I need to get hit in the face. I need to get dropped hard before I can really circle the wagons and proceed. It breaks you out of being complacent, of being in your comfort zone.
I have a lot of shortcomings. I'm aware of that. I work on those things.
This is life right here. This is what happens. You get knocked down. You've got to step back up. How are you going to handle a loss? This is what Mojo Rawley is all about.
These losses, when they mount up it's hard to keep your cool.
Ever since I was a little kid the only thing I've ever wanted to do was be in the WWE, and not just be on the roster but to be a champion.
When I was a little kid, I'd always go to WWE shows and I was a huge fan of Razor Ramon.
Making an impact behind the scenes with 'Be-A-Star' and 'Make-A-Wish,' how cool is it to do those things?
I am not one of these guys that looks to the locker room and points fingers. That has never been my MO.
I watch a lot of tape. Anytime I have a match on TV, I watch it back, 10-20 times alone.
I don't make excuses.
You're always reinventing yourself and looking for what's new and what you haven't done before.
When I am a good guy on TV, my character tends to be almost identical to how I am as a real person. However, as a bad guy, I get to be the opposite. I get to be a jerk. I get to talk trash, I get to say all the things that I'm thinking but have to restrain myself from saying out of respect or decency.
I take my training very seriously but I also take fun very seriously too.
Even when I'm having fun, I'm constantly thinking of ways to incorporate it into my WWE persona, as that way I'm serving two purposes at once.
