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

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

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.

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.

I try to take each moment at a time.

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