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  1. “I'm almost explaining it to myself as you ask me, I never thought about it that way. So I'm kind of explaining it to you going like, yeah, that's really cool. Not long.”

    2015-04-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #72: Triple H on Pre-Fight Rituals, Injury Avoidance, and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Yeah, www.com is for our company and our site and all that. I do stuff on Twitter and whether anybody believes or not, I actually do it. It's not somebody else doing it. It's me. So if it's terrible, it was me. If it was really good, it was me. If you want to go back and look at my career, the WWE network is a great place to do it, all the historical content is on there. You know, that's really me. But, you know, for me, I know you, Sam, I'm fascinated. I'm fascinated by this process and what you do and how you do it. And I'd love to do this again because I think these kind of things, it's funny, a lot of things I said in here when you asked me questions today, like I feel like I gave you long-winded answers. I apologize if I did, but like...”

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  3. “So Twitter, what's my Twitter handle? It's like at HAA. I don't know I just know how to push the buttons on it. If you search.”

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  4. “to not be so absorbed in what I was doing in my moments going for that I could have said by this guy he could teach me so much and men I should call it and just you know foster that relationship because he put the he put the put the handout and I was like I don't need a hint you know and it's those are things that I look at there's other opportunities in my life that I wish oh man I wish I that was right in front of me and I could have grabbed that but I was too narrow-minded to see it you know”

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  5. “And, you know, one of those two second chance meetings in an elevator, right? And this really impressed me that I get back a couple weeks later and I get a big box of like the cassette and his books and all his stuff that he had written me this handwritten letter and sent it. Didn't know how to get a hold of me, sent it to the WWE office, whatever, two weeks, a month later when I come back through the office at some point in time in my travels. They give it to me. And I'm like, wow, this is amazing. I was too young and stupid and unopened at the time to foster a relationship or I listened to the tapes and I read the books and all that stuff. And if I'd have thought about it, maybe I would have reached back out to say thank you and like, hey, like, this is really cool. And he invited me to one of his seminars. And, you know, I was just at that time like, I'm doing good. Like, I don't, you know, it was closed to it. I wish I was more open to it. I wish I could have had the bandwidth.”

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  6. “I was just kind of like getting to a high spot in my career. And I just happened to be in a hotel. I look over next to me. He's checking in next minute. It's just a big giant dude, you know. But I recognize him from TV. And he looked over me. He said, how are you doing? I was great. How are you? Good? And he, you know, I got my keys and I went and get in the elevator and he gets in the elevator with me. And he looked at me and said, forgive me, I don't know what you do, but I clearly see people looking at you and I clearly see you're somebody and I don't, what do you do? I tell them who I am and what I do. And I said, I've seen you on TV. I'm, you know.”

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  7. “You need to keep that perspective of where everything lays out. There's times when over the years when we've looked at each other and my friends within the business, little group of guys, and we'd always look at each other at a certain point in time, you just laugh and go like, it's the phony fight business. You know what I mean? What am I getting all work up about? You know what I mean? And I think that is the biggest thing is just not taken so seriously. And then being open to stuff, you know, it's funny. I mentioned that I listened to the Anthony Robbins interview with you, and I was fascinated with it. I met Anthony one time, and it was probably 2000.”

    2015-04-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #72: Triple H on Pre-Fight Rituals, Injury Avoidance, and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “Don't take it all so serious. And be more open. It's man, when you're so focused on making it and you're, I always had fun in the business and it was one of the things that I like I could, I can look at it now and say like I didn't take everything so seriously that it was detrimental to me, but like there were times when it just something happened. It just eat me up, you know what I mean? And I would be just couldn't take it because I was so hungry to get to that next place.”

    2015-04-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #72: Triple H on Pre-Fight Rituals, Injury Avoidance, and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “Wow I think if at this age, if I could do like freestanding just body weight squats and like push-ups and kind of body weight exercises would be where I'd be at because I think you can stay in phenomenal shape doing them and you don't need a whole lot of space or equipment.”

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  10. “So lately it's been anything heavy. Metallica Motorhead, I mean, I'm in like training mode for WrestleMania, so at 10 o'clock at night, I need to put something on the stereo that just makes me gets me in ass kicking mod”

    2015-04-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #72: Triple H on Pre-Fight Rituals, Injury Avoidance, and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  11. “Marvel at how many hats he wore and how quickly he could change them. You know, he'd be talking about a foreign tour and box off his receipts or, you know, a touring strategy or a marketing strategy for that. And then two seconds later, he's looking at a t-shirt design and approving colors and that. And then that would go away. And now he's looking at some new talent or he's like, just with so many hats that he wore. And it used to amaze me at how quickly he could change gears. And I find myself now having to do that same thing. And it's really cool to see yourself growing that way because I used to think, oh my God, how does he keep that all straight? And at first, I couldn't keep it straight. And now you just, you learn it. You learn that you adapt to that process.”

    2015-04-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #72: Triple H on Pre-Fight Rituals, Injury Avoidance, and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  12. “It's a lot of hats. It's funny. I used to marvel at Vince's ability when I first started coming in the office. I've had a working kind of behind the scenes relationship with Vince since probably I started in the WWE 95 since like early 96. I just was always fascinated with the behind the scenes of the business and how it actually all came together as much as I was doing it in the ring. And he and I just kind of clicked in that sense. And we started working together. And I didn't meet Steph, his daughter until quite a few years later. And then we ended up having a relationship and the whole thing. But I had this working relationship with Vince. And as time went on and I got more and more involved in that, and then kind of later in my career, he kept always asking me, like, when are you going to stop messing around in the ring and come do some real work at the office? You need to be in the office. I need to get you in the office.”

    2015-04-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #72: Triple H on Pre-Fight Rituals, Injury Avoidance, and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “Through to how do they then evolve and get into the main roster of the WWE? So basically what we did is kind of created college football to get guys ready for the NFL. And then the last part of what I do is creative, which Vince is kind of the ultimate filter of creative. I'm more While I weigh in a lot on that stuff and the content that's going to go in the network and all these things, and I weigh in on it from a creative concept, but I'm also approving t-shirt designs and banner designs and going through all that stuff through all the different departments and doing the approvals of all that day-to-day process”

    2015-04-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #72: Triple H on Pre-Fight Rituals, Injury Avoidance, and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  14. “Anything that has to do with them, all the logistics of WrestleMania Week, you know, what talent they're doing, there's a thousand appearances for talent literally in the week of WrestleMania. They have to handle all the logistics of getting who where, making sure nobody's late and all of it, it's a maze from to talent development, which is the biggest probably thing that's closest to my heart that I do, which is where do we find talent? Where do we recruit them from? Where do we... Where do we recruit them from? How do we train them? We opened a performance center in Orlando, Florida to a developmental territory or a developmental system that I have called NXT. Has become kind of like an alternative brand.”

    2015-04-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #72: Triple H on Pre-Fight Rituals, Injury Avoidance, and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  15. “So I am the executive vice president of Talent Live Events and Creative. If you look at the core of what we do as a company, like from the product itself, Ross Mackdown, all that, and we're a lot more than that because we have movies and music. I say all the time it's like saying Marvel's a comic book company, but that's the core of what we do. I control those aspects. So talent, and that goes from we have a department talent relations, which is like their HR and they handle everything that has to do with talent from their travel to...”

    2015-04-20 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #72: Triple H on Pre-Fight Rituals, Injury Avoidance, and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  16. “Two scoops of isolized protein. And some ice, blend it all up. It's a Starbucks smoothie kind of concoction, but very healthy and has enough caffeine in there to at least make me realize what's going on. Them ready for school, my wife and I get them ready for school, jump in the shower, either depending if I'm getting ready for like WrestleMania, it's either throw sweats on because I'm going to bring them to school and then get a workout in because usually I train twice a day when I'm getting ready for WrestleMania or something, but train and then off to work if I'm not getting ready for WrestleMania, it's shower, get ready, suit, bring them to school, we drive them to their school, get them to school, get them in their class, do all the stuff, and then drive to the office, start the day. Get home at 7 30, 8 o'clock at night and repeat.”

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  17. “Yeah, Dave has been friends with him for years and he's a big. Ketogenic diet guy, so he works with my diet a lot when I'm getting ready for a WrestleMania stuff. So Dave's kind of my diet guy uses protein powder species protein. So every morning roll downstairs two scoops of whey protein, a bunch of Starbucks coffee, powdered Starbucks coffee, some macadamia nut oil, and I make a shake and that's the start. You just got to get the kick in going.”

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  18. “You train and do all the stuff. By the time we get done, usually it's one o'clock in that ballpark, and then you're getting to bed after one o'clock. They're up at like six at the latest, you know, and they're in the room. So there's no really cool ritual, I wish I could say jumping a crowd chamber. It's usually me stumbling downstairs with them to try to make every morning my ritual is I'm also ironically out of your book, Dave Palumbo is Jumbo Palumbo.”

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  19. “When the kids wake up in the middle of the night, unless they're scared, they might call dad if they're scared, but usually it's mom because they just mom's more the comforter, right? So it's all those things. So that's even harder job. But, you know, we train late at night. We get home. We try to get home every night no matter what, to spend a little bit of time with them and put them down and read them a book, whatever, get them in bed.”

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  20. “The cryo chamber. He's like at this elaborate ritual of mind altering spiritual, like jumping in a hot tank and a cold tank. Mine involves my kids waking me up in an ungodly hour after I, you know, like. We work under the premise of my wife and I. And to me, she gets this even more than I do because she's got all the roles and all the stuff. And then she's mom. And when you're the dad, it's a big responsibility. But the mom, like if anything happens, if they wake up, they go to her first.”

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  21. “We just stood there looking at her for a little bit. Like, what are we, like, what do we do? Eventually, she cried and we had to feed her or whatever, but you don't know what to do. It's like, you don't, we have a kid. Holy crap, you know, just comes with this.”

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  22. “But you want to teach them right from wrong. You want to teach them a path and a direction. But at the same point in time, you learn as much from your failures as you do from your successes. So you can't. You can't give them everything. You want to help them so bad. Like I'm watching you make a mistake and I want to help you, but go ahead and make the mistake because you got to learn from that mistake. You know what I mean? And it's tough to do, but you have to. And there's no manual. That's the hard thing about kids, right? There's no manual that comes with it. And you're just doing the best you can. I remember when we got our first one home, the hospital, they put it in the car seat and you take the thing home and then we walked in the door and we put it on the step and we were like, what do we do now?”

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  23. “Yeah, and that's it. We're done. Yeah. But it's, man, it's hard when the pressure as a parent, if you, you know, hopefully if everybody takes the job seriously, you're giving them the examples of how they're going to live their life. Kids don't do what you say. They do what they see. So, how you live your life is their example. I've heard it said, and I believe this is like, Way I treat their mother and the way I treat them is what they're going to look for in a significant other. You got to think, oh yeah, like so what do I want them to have in their life? Holy cow, now I got to do all that stuff. It's a lot, you know? And then you add in all the other things of life. It's a very... It's a very difficult challenge.”

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  24. “Stamina and endurance stamina. You know, and I've heard you say it before when you have that goal in mind, now it's not, I got to do this thing to get that done. You can't wait to do that thing to get that done because it's going to get you closer to your goal.”

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  25. “My stuff that way. So the people that were successful models to me were people that had structured goals and then put a plan in place to get to those things. And I think that's what impressed me about Arnold. What impressed me about my father-in-law to this day? He's still very much, you know, here's the goal. Here's how I'm going to get there.”

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  26. “He told me that he was giving his speech and he said that his coach at one point in time told him very like his very first day he said you could be the next Muhammad Ali and he said do you want to do that and he said he had to ask his mom and then he went back home and he came back and he said I want to do that and he said okay is that a dream or a goal because there's a difference I'd never heard it say that way before but it struck to me so much so that I've said it to my kid now like is that a dream or a goal because a dream is something you fantasize about that just will never happen probably a goal is something you set a plan and work towards and achieve that a dream or a goal Kind of always looked at”

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  27. “I say it's like life, the more you put in, the more you get out, the harder you work, the better the results. You know, if you're willing to prepare, to sacrifice, it's not just about going to the gym, lifting weights, and then going out and goofing off the rest of the time, it's your life. So if you discipline your diet, if you discipline your rest, if you don't go to the party with your friends, if you don't do all these things, your results follow suit. I just did inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame Arnold International Sports Hall of Fame. Congratulations. Thank you. But I bring it up because Vander Hollafield was there and he told this story. And I never heard it said this way before. And I'm sorry, Evander, but I'm going to steal this”

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  28. “The gym taught me everything I need to know for life. You know, I walked in a gym at 14. I fell in love with it. I fell in love with the end result look, right? I was always in awe of these big, powerful, impressive guys. I think it was part of what I dug about wrestling. I enjoyed the physical and all that stuff of it and fell in love with that really holy. That's probably what led me to the gym at first. But just the discipline of it. And the going to the gym.”

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  29. “that everybody watches because the world's getting smaller. So he had this vision, and then he just kind of set out doing it. I looked at Arnold. I remember, you know, as a kid reading education of a bodybuilder. Very structured, methodical set of here's what I want to do, here's what I want to be, and here's how I'm going to get there. Those kind of things and those kind of people were success models for me. Arnold... Was that in the structure? I just said it to him a few weeks ago. Like for me, I say this in interviews a lot.”

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  30. “So I always felt like the control was mine to take because it was what I could count on. I couldn't rely on, you know, this might get screwed up because maybe there's a confusion between those two guys over there supposed to do their thing. So I always took it on me to make sure I was there to tell them this is coming up. Be ready. Here we go. Get the chair, whatever. Flair was very good at that. So that was like for me from that point of view was a success. Component. But there was a lot of things that I looked for. Wrestling didn't define me as far as what I saw was successful. I looked at and I looked at my father-in-law now, Vince. I looked at that as a guy that. Saw a business that was one thing, but had a vision of it being something else. He saw this little territoried business and thought there should be one global.”

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  31. “Could tell you at any given time if there were six people involved in something, I could tell you at any given time if I closed my eyes in the ring where they all were, like no matter how much they were moving around and what they were doing, I knew where they were. I knew what they had in their hands. I knew, like, just on glimpses as I was moving around the ring. I always felt like it was my job. If something was going to screw up, that was my fault. It wasn't because he didn't know what was coming. It was because I didn't control that.”

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  32. “It's hard to say because I looked at an inside of our business there were guys like for me my favorite performer character was Rick Flair just kind of felt like overall he had the best package of everything to offer you know there were guys that were great showmen very popular or guys that were great at one thing very popular he had that kind of the combo of great in-ring performer it made everybody look good this great character all these things inside the wrestling business that was a component of success for me just That level of performer, the way he handled himself in the ring, I always wanted to be the in ring kind of general and understand. And it's one of the things I prided myself on at the peak of my career was...”

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  33. “That's a fair point. I sat back down. We watched a game for them. You're like, all right, want to be here? Yeah. He just is very calm and relaxed. That's amazing. And I think when you feel in your mind that you're ready, you're ready and you're going to have those nerves, but you know it's there.”

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  34. “Run, Floyd. I don't want to be in your way. And he goes, Hunter? I'm telling you, I'm just chilling watching the game. And I said, you're not wound up about this at all. And he goes, why would I be wound up? I'm either ready or I'm not worrying about it right now. I ain't going to change a damn thing, right? Whatever's going to happen is going to happen. So I've either done everything I can to be ready for this or I'm not”

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  35. “Yeah, and I was walking him to the ring one time in, I think when he fought Marquez and we got there early and his guys came and got me and I wanted to watch some of the undercard and then they came and got me and they said, you know, Floyd just want to say hi before he starts getting ready and stuff, chat with you for a few minutes. So Steph and I went backstage with my wife. Get in his locker room and he's laying down on the couch watching basketball game. And we come in and say hello and all that. And he's like, have a seat. You know, now we're talking a little bit. But I'm trying to be ultra respectful of him. He's about to go and, you know, this massive fight. And so the second there's like a lull in the conversation. I'm like, all right, man, we're going to get out of your hair and head back and we'll come back here when it's time for us to get ready for your deal. And he's like, man, you don't got to take off. You can sit down. I'm enjoying the conversation. Have funny. And he's like, completely relax. And I said, so another low in the conversation. I go, we're going to.”

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  36. “Undertaker and I had a conversation a couple of years ago about this. It's a little bit of like you can still do this and calming yourself down. But at the same point in time, like don't forget to enjoy this moment. Like when you're out there because you might not get another one. You don't know, you know, and injuries do happen, especially as you get older. And you can't think about it once you're out there. And that's the thing for me. It's always been. This emotion and nerve and my music hits and the second I walk out it's gone. Like I don't have any of it. When I'm in the ring waiting for the other guy or whatever, I don't have any of it. And it's an interesting thing to me that I'm friends with Floyd Mayweather. Incredible.”

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  37. “Um So it's changed over the years. I used to get really intense and really like Almost like that same level of intensity if you were going to go for a personal record squat or something where you just get in that zone of intensity and just nothing else is around you and you're in your own little world and just on fire ready to tear through this thing. And that when I was younger, that used to be the thing. For me now, it's much more of an inner dialogue of you have been doing this for 20 years. You know how to do this. Like relax and this is fun. In somewhere there's that inner dialogue in me saying could be the last time you do this. Enjoy it. You know what I mean?”

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  38. “Not short and sweet. Yeah, it's not, you know, I just go right from one thing to the other. It's awesome. It's a good little deal.”

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  39. “To then have your body just kick in and wake up. Boom, and you're there, you know what I mean? And that's really what it is. But it's just a, he varies it, but it's a little series of exercises. It just makes me go.”

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  40. “No, no, he'll, well, it depends, but usually I don't like if I'm getting ready to go for a match, but like he'll have me do cossack squats. Maybe just like a squat, but when I come down, I'm pushing my knees out to the side to stretch my groin out into some type of eccentric explosive push-up, but just getting things to fire my nervous system, wake my nervous system up, but then also just open my joints up a little bit and just warm my body up. But it's never anything like I see guys running up and down hallways and doing all these things to get a sweat going. I'm never at that point, but when I'm done it, I always feel like alive, you know, as opposed to just kind of physically shut down but mentally aware because I'm about to go to the ring. So, you know, no matter how many years you've been doing this, you're still like nervous and like freaking out.”

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  41. “Because my knees were killing me. I've torn both my quads. My knees were really bad and all that. I have zero knee pain now. I'm as strong as I've ever been. I don't have physical issues, but it's because of that type of training. And Joe, and he was one of the guys that got me. Like, when you do wrestle, here's what we're going to do. We're going to get you in this kind of shape. And then you're going to be your pre-match ritual of, you know, you're stretching and your mobility. We're going to light your body up, get your nerves kicking and firing, and then you're going to go, you know, and that's what I do now. And it works out a whole lot better.”

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  42. “Just wealth of knowledge, incredibly smart, and he said to me, so this will be a difficult transition for you because your mindset is totally different. You know, I'd never been with a strength and conditioning guy. Everything I learned in the gym was from bodybuilders or powerlifters. I just went to the gym and trained with guys and learned everything I could, but I was a sponge for it and Arnold was my hero. And, you know, like just was a sponge for all that stuff. But that's how I learned it. So strength and conditioning and the whole stretching and mobility was totally foreign to me. And he said, this is going to be a tough thing for you. We'll see if you can do it because tough with old dogs new tricks. And I just went to him and I said, dude, I will tell you this. I'm all in. Tell me what to do. I'll go do it. But it changed my life. Changed my life athletically. I went from a guy with, you know, gimping going upstairs.”

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  43. “He came and said after we met, he's like, You seem like a really great guy. I'd like to take a stab at doing this with you. I'll drive up here. I'm willing to do it and drive up. And that's the thing he's awesome.”

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  44. “Ironically, I end up probably where you did in your quest to do when you did for a body, which is you start researching all these guys that become the best at what they do. And I come across Joe Defranco. It keeps coming back up, Joe DeFranco. And I call Joe DeFranco out of the blue one day and just say, Know, I was actually because he was in Jersey and I was in Connecticut, I was thinking maybe he could recommend me to somebody. And he said, can I come and meet with you? I'd like to meet with you. And just so I can analyze the thing. I still had my arm and a sling and everything and just finished making the movies. I didn't have the surgery until after I finished making the movies.”

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  45. “And I was like, everything came back. And hey, wait, my neck doesn't hurt. It was all from like this bicep. And I had to get surgery and the whole thing. But it got me to a point in my head like I'm getting older. I'm falling apart a little bit. Like I have to start maybe I should think about trying to train like an athlete instead of just like going to the, just being a bodybuilder and just looking good or whatever. So I'm not like a guy that just like called a local gym. Like I have to then like dig into it. So I start like researching trainers and Everything and um”

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  46. “I can't believe I just tore my biceps. So I'm like mad. I put my weights down. And like literally, I was done training. I was just going to do like a couple extra sets of biceps or whatever. And I called the guy to come back and get me. And as I went to go outside, like I was sweating and out and piss, so I'm just going to leave. And I go to put my sweatshirt on. And as I did, I put my sweatshirt, like threw my arm up over my head to put my sweatshirt on and realized, wait a minute. I can move my arm all the way around my head like that. I couldn't do that.”

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  47. “No, it tore at the top, so it just popped down and made like this divot there, right? And I heard, I had headphones on and I heard it and I looked down and there was this divot. I was like, son of a bitch.”

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  48. “Went to the gym one day and tore my bicep, and it didn't hurt at all. It snapped. I looked down. I had the big gap in my arm. I was just mad more than anything. I was like, oh, it just rolled.”

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  49. “And I got into a position with a company where I needed to go make a couple of movies for them. Long story. But I went to go make two movies. I ended up taking about a month off from the ring to go make these two movies and then was supposed to come back while I was making the movies. One day I went to the gym to train. And it had gotten to a point where I couldn't raise my left arm over my shoulder and my neck was really bad. And I'd been going to see our team physician, you know, the guy that runs our medical and I'd been, you know, getting stuck with needles and dye and MRIs and things. And they kept saying like, it looks great. We don't see there's clearly something nerve going on here, but we don't know what it is. And they kept doing all this stuff.”

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  50. “Four years ago, as my career was kind of winding down, and I was still wrestling fairly regularly, and I had had this problem, I thought it was a neck injury. And really having all this problem with my neck and my shoulder.”

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