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" Part of the reason why Kobe Bryant is such a big inspiration to me is because he was shipped off to the Lakers right out of high school. He went from English class to the Great Western Forum. "

T. J. Perkins

High School

School

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" I got thrust into some great things when I was really young. "

" I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines. "

T. J. Perkins

Environment

Kind

" It's really exciting to be able to represent the cruiserweights and go to Monday Night Raw. I grew up watching Monday Night Raw, and it's really a big dream of mine to perform on that stage. "

" So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up. "

" Lucha libre culture was part of my wrestling upbringing. I'm Filipino, so it wasn't a part of my normal upbringing, but it's what gave me my start. I get a lot of my technical and high-flying wrestling from that. "

T. J. Perkins

Start

Culture

" I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young. "

" I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying. "

" I'd really like to go back to New Japan because it feels like home, and I love that place so much. "

" Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time. "

" I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool. "

T. J. Perkins

Things

Pretty

" I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada. "

" I grew up on WWE. Eddie Guerrero is my everything. He's my hero, as are Shawn Michaels and Tiger Mask. I tried to model myself after them. "

" A lot of the ups and downs for me, especially the downs, I feel like it came in a lot of indirect ways because I didn't appreciate what I had. "

" Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match. "

T. J. Perkins

Only

" I've been hit in the head a lot, but I don't think I have any problems, but I can't, for the life of me, remember a lot of my road stories and good times. When times are bad enough, that's all you can ever think about. "

T. J. Perkins

Think

Problems

" Things will come and go, and your life will go on, but you don't want to get too ahead of yourself. "

" I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere, which was part of the reason I was homeless. I couldn't get a job pumping gas. I couldn't get a job working at a warehouse, I couldn't get a job at Baskin Robbins, I couldn't get a job anywhere. "

" I try to take each moment at a time. "

" When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place. "

" I could program the VCR when I was really young. "

" I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal. "

" I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship. "