Quotes from Xavier Woods

Videogames tell stories on good and evil, and so does the WWE, so that's the core of both things.

I feel like we have the opportunity as WWE Superstars to make some sort of impact on lives, whether it's one kid or whether it's an adult.

I used to live with, like, Tyler Breeze and Rick Victor when I lived in Florida. Yeah, Breeze is, like, one of my best friends in the business.

On some very real levels, seeing what has happened to guys and girls who have been in the wrestling business when they have to transition out is hard. It's very difficult.

For me, there are so many art forms in wrestling. There's the Ring of Honor art, the New Japan art, so whatever you enjoy, there's a facet of wrestling out there for you to watch.

I can have a job where I get paid to travel around the world in shiny pants. Why would anyone want to do anything else?

I listen to this mix of smooth jazz, independent hip-hop, chiptunes, and anime music.

I want everything. So my next goal - and this is the first time saying this - is to gain enough money to whatever means and create a mobile games studio.

There are so many different types of games, so it helps bring people closer together.

I was really into more over-the-top, entertaining kind of characters, larger-than-life types of things. That's the part of wrestling that I really enjoyed.

I wish I was agile like Spider-Man and everything we do that draws on the childhood inspirations and the adulthood inspirations, for that matter. They're definitely the reason how I am, how I am today, because I was a smaller kid who was a nerd.

It's a briefcase with my laptop, my DSLR, a microphone, my mouse, and rechargeable batteries. I could set up right here and film an episode if I wanted to. And that's how I like to keep it, small and compact, so I can do it anywhere in the world.

I've got two undergraduate degrees: one is a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy and a Master's in Psychology. I'm gunning for my Ph. D. in Psychology but that's currently on hold.

I didn't have very many friends growing up. I was very much a nerd. I read comic books, and I wanted to do well in school.

Wrestling is a never-ending storybook, so sometimes you start going one direction, but the beauty of it is we could go in whatever direction we want, but things just changed.

If you were to explain The New Day to a new fan, you can't do it.

I have no desire to go to work and not work with my friends.

If there's a kid who's out there in the world watching wrestling, and they see me, and they know I have my Ph.D. while I was wrestling, that could possibly inspire them to not drop out of school, to not drop out of college, to go and obtain that type of educational status, and that, to me, means a lot more.

As African-Americans, we don't start with a blank slate, while other people may. In our position, there's always some sort of stereotype that is being scrutinized or that is being assumed when we come through the curtain.

I know, for me, that I love wrestling, and I love games, so there was already an overlap there because all of my friends growing up were the same.

I do a bunch of cosplay stuff with a guy by the name of Michael Mosley. He's fantastic. We always go to an event called DragonCon together every September.

I sleep a lot in the airplanes. That is where I get majority of my sleep.

Video games - just like wrestling - that's always been my happy place.

Without video games, I don't think I'd be where I am today with anything else in life.