“I was thinking about this for quite some time trying to figure out why I am where I am mentally and physically and all that stuff. And, again, I never lost an appreciation for pro wrestling. It’s always meant the world to me. But after the two incredibly challenging injuries — one of them being career-threatening, the other one just being so, so difficult physically and mentally — it gave me this whole new appreciation of this job and how much I love it. So now coming back from those two things and still being able to do what I love to do, and getting to travel every week and wrestle and be with my friends and stuff like that. Not that I did, but I will absolutely never take this for granted. So that’s kind of the mentality.”
