Quotes from Finn Balor

Hopefully, I can be a good role model for kids, and they can grow up to follow their dreams just like I am.

I always go back to my days in NXT and look at my feud with Samoa Joe. That was one of the best periods of growth for me.

I didn't realize how much the paint was going to affect how I moved and how I walked. And it wasn't something that consciously happened. It was because the first time I'd done it was a Tokyo Dome show, I want to say in 2013-14, and I walked out there, and I was a completely different person.

You can only get better by challenging yourself.

My parents have supported me everywhere I've went: U.K. to Japan, NXT.

Balor Club is for everyone.

I quite like walking out in my sweet new Balor Club jacket, popping my collar and being Mr. Cool.

I really believe in the power of positive thinking and the collective power of people's thoughts spawning something into becoming reality.

The crowd down in Australia is always so energetic, some of the best crowds in the world to perform in front of.

I started playing soccer when I was 6 years old and started lifting weights when I was 16, so it's not like I never exercised.

The whole Demon character was designed for people to hate me more and to be scared of me, and it kind of backfired in the sense that people kind of like it now.

When I came to NXT, it was very much a developmental brand.

The Demon character is something I draw on occasion. It's something that requires a lot of focus to tap into and really requires the right situation for me to sort of draw on that darker side of my personality.

I think Finn Balor is more about confidence, a smarter version of Prince Devitt. Otherwise, they have the same core values, same techniques, and the same heart.

I've seen a lot of different training schools and dojos, and the sheer level of professionalism at the Performance Center and the state-of-the-art facility just knocked me for a six. It really blew me away.

It's almost like putting on a mask protects you from people's judgments and lets you completely flow freely, like, with all your aggression and our animosity against anything.

I've got a pretty wild imagination, and a lot of times, I have to be reeled back in.

I was big into hip-hop as a kid, and when I was eighteen, I got into dance and rave music, which was popular in Ireland at the time.

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?''

It's a very simple answer, how to get my abs so defined. I have a very healthy diet of a lot of laughter. If you laugh all the time, you're consistently flexing your abdominals all the time.

We're all humans living on this tiny little rock, floating through space at, like, thousands of miles an hour. We should all just get along.

I don't see why we should alienate anyone, regardless of sexual orientation, nationality, religion, ethnicity.

You can kind of run drills and practice, rehab behind closed doors as much as you can, but there's nothing that simulates being in front of a live audience with live TV cameras.

I can't speak of anything but greatness for Roman Reigns. He's one of the all-time greats.