I focus very much on the job and my goals and dreams.
It would have been very hard to grow if I hadn't stepped outside the WWE bubble and gain a clear perspective on everything.
When you are against a guy like a Bobby Lashley, you have to be smart because he can snap a leg in one second. I treat him with that respect.
I will never say anything negative about WWE.
From a boy who left university as a student straight to WWE - those experiences, those ups and downs in life and work shaped the wrestler and man I am today.
When you're by yourself and not with WWE, you are your own business. And I was very successful in that business because of all the lessons I learned.
I truly learned how to be a top brand myself and be what I needed to be.
In WWE, a lot of people took my passion as me thinking I was better or knew more.
I am very passionate about this business, and I always have been.
I'm not a 'Yes Man,' and I've always preferred to go back and forth and find something we both agree on so I can do it to the best of my ability. That was taken in WWE as trying to do what was best for me. In reality, I was trying to be different.
I know this business better than most people, and I'm extremely passionate about it.
That's all I ever wanted - to go out as myself and have the success or failure fall on me.
I was in FCW for about six months. It was roundabout 2009; a lot of guys started to retire, and they didn't have guys coming in from other companies to replace them.
Keeping a secret in the social media age often is impossible.
There is so much more than just what you do in the ring and what you do on the microphone.
I've experienced the highest of highs and been in every single position, and that has taught me so much.
I started wrestling at 15 and signed with world's biggest company by 21 and then had to rebuild myself again.
Most people jump for joy when WWE come calling, and rightly so.
I love tag team wrestling.
RVD is the most chilled man on planet Earth - if he was any more relaxed, he'd be asleep - and he is a really nice guy, too.
