“It’s been such a frustrating process. We’re letting my spinal cord heal as much as we can on its own before we go in for the surgery because how extensive the surgery will be depends on how my spinal cord looks when we go in there.”

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“We’re waiting till mid-July to do the surgery. Hopefully, it’s a normal neck fusion. It might not be, we don’t know.”

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“So since then, I felt fine. My neck’s been fine. I’m not in pain. I have no really any symptoms of what you would expect somebody with spinal cord injury have to have."

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“In the last week, for some reason, the symptoms all came in one shot. Every symptom you’d expect me to have, the pain in the neck, the stuff going down the arms, the legs not really responding, it’s all been happening. So it’s been pretty fucking brutal. I can’t wait for the surgery. And then to move forward, whatever that looks like but it’s been very frustrating.”

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“If you wanna take a tumble in the desert in a golf cart with people, Jamie Noble, Cathy Kelly, best people you could do it with.”

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“Going through the dunes, great time, amazing time. And then as we go up a dune, I see the buggy in front of us, almost go. And in my head, I go, ‘Oh, we’re gonna go.’ And as we start going, in my head, I go, Cathy doesn’t know how to keep her fucking hands in. So I just reached around and grabbed her arms and as we’re rolling, I’m holding on to her.”

“I didn’t save her life, I didn’t save her arms, but I tried to make sure she was safe. And then both of us experienced this incredible thing, which is we’re upside down in the golf cart, there’s sand pouring down our face, our ears, everything. And all we hear is Jamie Noble going, ‘My ribs, my ribs, my ribs, my ribs, ahhh…I’m okay.”

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“When we were Tag Team Champions, we had a bit of a sh-t run. I remember before we won the titles, we kept saying we just hope we can live up to the Usos, what the Usos did, and we didn’t. But our role as Tag Team Champions at the time was closing out Raw, and it didn’t matter. Raw is a long show, three hours, make sure they’re awake by the end. And dude, we wrestled Judgment Day about 17 times in a row. We had them rocking every time. And 95 percent of that credit for that goes to Sami.”

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“No one hates that process more than Damian Priest. He will, oh my God, I’ve seen him lose it. And then we come back and they’re like, ‘It worked.’”

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