Finn Balor

As a kid growing up, I was a huge gamer - The NES, SuperNES, N64, GameCube - and I had a GameBoy, which went everywhere with me. ”

Every child has played video games growing up and played WWE games. To be part of a video game, it's an unbelievable experience. ”

The NXT women are changing the way women's wrestling is viewed. It's an inspiration to be able to watch. ”

I came up in the U.K., which is a very catch-as-catch-can style, and then I somehow ended up in Japan and spent eight years there learning strong style. I got to spend some time in Mexico learning the lucha libre style, and the WWE is a hybrid style of everything mixed together. ”

I spent two years at NXT and a lot of times questioned, 'When is this going to happen?' or 'Is this actually going to happen? Am I going to make it to 'Raw?'' ”

Ireland has always been a nation of great athletes from the past: in the nineties, we had Sonia O'Sullivan and Steve Collins. ”

I'm going to look forward to the future as opposed to looking back at the past. ”

I spent a lot of time in Japan. To me, I felt like my career was kind of marooned out there. I didn't realize the extent of the reach that New Japan had in America and around the world. ”

My whole career, I've been climbing or chasing or hunting something. ”

It wasn't until later in my career that I really focused on the importance on making an entrance. ”