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Paul Levesque

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  1. “45. But so, you know, for years, when I was doing all that stuff with wrestling, you know, wrestling all those dates and everything. It's funny because some of the younger guys would joke with me about it, like you're like the old school guy. I would literally be sitting in a chair up at, we call it gorilla position, right, before you walk out the curtain named after an old wrestler gorilla monsoon. But I would just be sitting in a chair. My music hit up and go to the ring. And like they would say, you don't warm up at all. Walk to the ring. It's good warm-up. I'll start slow. It'll be fine. Now I have to stretch and warm up and Joe DeFranco, you mentioned my strength and conditioning, guys. One of the things when... I'm really bad with years and dates”

    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. “Your brain will get stuck in like it's like when you go to sleep and you can't stop thinking about something you've got going on at work and you can't get it out in the morning, you realize like it was actually gibberish that was in your brain going on. I think training when you do it well if you're into it, like you can't focus, you can't be in the middle of trying to do a heavy set of something and be thinking about another project, you have to be in that moment and it allows you to reboot, which I kind of believe is what meditation and all that stuff is. Anyways, it's just a reset button for a second that just allows you to go like, okay, start over, clean the plate, and now let's do this again, you know? And that's really, to me, what training is”

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

  3. “It's bad memory on my part is what it Oh, I know what I was going to say. Yeah, I believe that training is almost like a meditation, right? Totally agree. Anthony Robbins say he didn't meditate because he didn't like shutting off. He's the opposite. He wants to just keep going. But I also believe you need to reboot.”

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

  4. “On audio. No, no. But, you know, you put something in your head and then get there and go, that's not what I expected at all. So I listened to I sounded more like Barry.”

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

  5. “It's funny, I heard you talk just recently, I listened to your podcast and my research for this because I've read your books, but hearing somebody speak is different than what you put in your mind of how they speak.”

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

  6. “And then go, okay, now I can cruise because now I'm the guy. And now that means I can say no and I cannot do these things. I felt the opposite. When you get there, now it's your responsibility to not say no. So, you know, I've had times where I've worked 64 straight days and just everybody else went home. I went on a media tour. Everybody else went back home. I went to something else. I did that for years, you know, and. That regimented having those distinct patterns, so to speak, I think helped keep that.”

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

  7. “Same with my training. When new guys would start a lot on the road like internationally when we're all traveling together, it's hard when you go overseas, you're on a bus. There's a gym set up for you, but they don't know how, like, how do I get to the gym? I'm not sure. Am I supposed to go downstairs, get on a bus? I don't know. The guys would always come to me and say, hey, look, we've always heard that you go to the gym every day. Can I go with you? So yeah, I'd meet downstairs, a bunch of guys who come down. We'd all go to the gym together because I would go every day. I didn't like missing it. I didn't like, you know, it was, to me, it was that regimented thing. And I can look back at my career and say, I think part of that regimented stuff is why I was able to maintain it or maintain that schedule because I was one of the guys also that really truly believed in that when you make it, the job gets harder. It's not the other way around. You don't make it.”

    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. “Into the hotel. Second, we checked in. I'd ask them to is the gym open. Can I go train? Even if it was to get on a bike and ride for 15 minutes, reset that. I learned early that it seemed to me anytime I did that, I didn't get jet lag. Anytime I did that, I seemed to like we can use wrestling terms. Like I'd kick out faster, right? So while everybody else would be in the building dragging that day, I'd be like, I feel great. Like, you know, I don't feel so bad, getting your blood flowing, resetting your clock. If we were in Australia, I would always like that last day there, I would force myself to stay up because then I could sleep the whole way home. And by the time I landed, I'm landing in the morning and it's perfect. Like I'm just waking up and it's great. You know, I'm going to do the same thing. I'd land, I'd try to find a gym, whether a hotel, something, ride a bike, reset my clock, do the deal, you know. So those routines and regimented stuff.”

    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. “In the beginning, there wasn't as much supplements and it was a little bit more difficult. But as supplements became more available, I would, I'm like big on the preparation part. So like if I was going to get on a plane to fly to Japan, I would take either containers or later when they were there. I would make my own protein shakes, right? I'd put the two scoops of protein in the thing. I'd put some oil in there. I'd put whatever I needed. I'd put the top on it, no liquid in there, and I'd stick it inside my carry-on bag. And I would time it in my head. So I'm on the flight for, it's a 16-hour flight. I've got three hour, I need to eat every three hours. I'm not going to count on the food on the plane. That will just be bonus food. So every three hours, I have a shake for every three hours. And I'd set my watch to go off every three hours time to eat. And I'd get a shakeout, get water, drink my shake, put it in, go back to sleep, right? Whatever I needed to do. When I landed, I would check.”

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

  10. “I think You speak a lot in your podcast and in your books and everything about routines and having things that you do. And I'm very big in that way. And I like to have my life kind of when it gets chaotic, it bothers me. And which sounds silly because what we do is chaotic at all times. Like my day varies. And, you know, people talk about when you do live TV, like Monday night raw for us. Work on that show and it isn't done until like sometimes guys are walking out the curtain and somebody's shouting a change to them as they're walking through the curtain. So the chaos is there. But having that consistent thing, so for me, I had very distinct things like if I”

    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. “Yeah, yeah, it chronicles the story of those epic contests, you know, and that's the reality of the story. You know, say it all the time if you know who's in the ring fighting, you'll tune in and you'll watch to just watch two guys fight for no apparent reason. It's not that interesting unless you're a connoisseur of what they're doing. If you're watching the FC and you're a big mixed martial arts fan of all those things and there's a lot of those, but they're very into the what's going on scientifically and the chess game, the technical chess game that's going on. But that's not the general public to hit the general public they need to know something about the two guys and why they're fighting right”

    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. “And even when you go back and usually watch those fights, you go back and you watch them in a show that now chronicles the story of”

    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. “Exactly. Yeah, yeah. And that's the thing of it. And you'll watch, it's one of the things that works. We have the WWE network. It's a lot of old content. People will go back and they'll watch WrestleMania One. Over and over again and how great it is or WrestleMania 3 and all these things is because it's an emotional story. If it was just about the moves, it wouldn't be so impactful to you still. The emotional story. That's why people will go back and watch the movie Rocky over and over again because it's a great story. They very rarely go back and watch there's exceptions. Muhammad Ali and Foreman or something moments in time. But the average person, unless they're like a boxing connoisseur, doesn't go back and watch boxing.”

    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. “About the story that you tell. So if the story is really good going in and you care about the two characters and then you make that emotional story play out through those two characters nonverbally in the ring, that's the magic of what we do. It doesn't matter if, you know, yeah, it makes the highlight real. Like, oh my God, he did this one spectacular move was crazy. I don't know how he made it through that or whatever. It's not really about that. Tomorrow there'll be another guy who can do that move better than you just did it, right? And it'll be even more spectacular. He'll come up with another way to do it that's even crazier.”

    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. “For me, it was never about. He was never about individual moves. And I think as the business, maybe some guys now look at that and they think differently because they might look at my style and say, like, I was never an over-the-top spectacular guy. But I wasn't supposed to be. I was usually the bad guy. So I wanted to have that. I wanted to be that constant and let the other guy be spectacular around me. And for me, it was never about the spectacular moves. It was about the drama of the match. And I look at what we do as... We're more like Rocky, the movie, than we are legitimate, you know, like boxing.”

    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. “Yeah. You know, and to me, I don't know. I've always been the kind of guy if you're doing it. Why wasn't everything what you wanted it to be in there? This shouldn't be wasted movement. There shouldn't be things that aren't what you want them to be. I don't want to do something just to get to the next thing, you know?”

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

  17. “And they say, oh, that was really good in the overall picture of things, right? It was really good. People really liked it. It was, but there were some things in there that weren't really good.”

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  18. “Right, from the inside and hit it with their shoulder. I just, it's one of those mental block things for me. Like I can't, I just like can't seem to navigate going between the two turnbuckles and getting the thing. Like I always get stuck somehow. I try to do it before. And it's just one of those things like doesn't work out well for me. So I never do it. And if guys will grab me in the ring over the years and say like take the post and I'll just nope, you know what I mean? Because I don't mid-flight correction. I just don't do that well. I'm not going to do it. And I think there's little things like that that guys don't analyze what they do. They do what they do and then they go.”

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

  19. “Well, just in how to be spectacular, but also how to break things down and to just look at what you do, like never be. Never be satisfied with what you do if you don't do something well, don't do it unless you want to spend the time to improve that. And still to this day, I see a lot of guys do stuff in the ring that I'm like, he doesn't do that well, but he does it all the time. You shouldn't do that. I have things that I don't do well in the ring. Just don't.”

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  20. “But yeah, he would just teach all the, he wouldn't say a whole lot. And then all of a sudden he'd come in and he would say, you know, you need to be spectacular. Make everybody look at you, no one else. And then he would just walk away. And then you'd be like, what does that mean? Like, I don't, you know what I mean? But you kind of had to figure it out. Now there's a lot of things that he said to me then that I find myself telling the young guys now in a different way, but it's the same lessons kind of, you know.”

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

  21. “Yeah, yeah. You know, it was a very, it would have worked very well in today's millennial age. But like he had his theory of telling you did something wrong was hitting you in the back of the head with a phone book that was in like a shopping bag.”

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  22. “It's funny, a lot of the things I think as in life he taught me a lot of things that I didn't know he was teaching me at the time. He would tell me a lot of things and I would be like, he's just like.”

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  23. “Yeah, he was one of the first guys to become kind of like globally known. And I started training with him at a school, if you want to call it that. It was like a little rundown mill building with a boxing ring in it in Malden, Massachusetts. And I started training with them there. So if you break it down from there to today of 20 plus years, and then once I made it to the WWE, which was 95, even if you just want to look at it from there and just say 20 years, 20 years, I probably, for a lot of those years, wrestled 250, 280 days a year. Sometimes in the weekends we did double shots. So we'd wrestle on matinee in the afternoon and then a night show. So it's a lot. A lot of mileage. Yeah, it's a lot of mileage. Yeah.”

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  24. “Thousands, you know, if you break it down simplistically and math is not my strong suit. But I started wrestling, I think, in like 93-ish, just training, 92, 93 training.”

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  25. “We're just that the WWE is just a bunch of guys in its simplest form that just go to the ring in their underwear and pretend to fight with each other. But when you really break it down, it's a massive global business.”

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  26. “I think they don't see what they see on TV. They see, you know, The misconception for me is that I'm very much what you see on television or I'm this character or they see the simplistic things of what we do. It's funny even if you're this huge fan of the WWE, they get so upset over things like, well, good, why would this guy beat that guy? Just, you know, it's one of the terms right now. He buried him. It's a show. And what they don't get about our show is we are like this never-ending, if you can compare it to whatever you want, comic books, soap opera, TV drama, movie, but it never ends. So it's always another chapter. And they get so upset in the moment of not knowing not liking.”

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  27. “To people that don't understand what we do. So I always went with that. Right now, it's kind of a combo. We have a saying that we use at WWE, which is our job is put smiles on people's faces. And it's kind of the overall thing of what we do. I spend 90% of my day as an executive. So there you go.”

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  28. “It's funny now because I'm kind of in that weird kind of combo twilight zone of the last bits of my in-ring wrestling career, you know. Even then when I did it, then I used to say I was an entertainer because the WWE is a weird thing. It's one of those things like if you're not into it, no explanation can explain it to you to make you like it. And if you are into it, there's no explanation necessarily. You know, it just is what it is. So, to say sometimes, oh, WWE, like they would go, oh, like the wrestler. You know, and it just had a weird connotation to it. When you say entertainer, oh, what kind? Oh, you know, WWE, it just took on a different meaning.”

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