You can be a big fish in a small pond, but you're only going to be competing against people at that level.
Finn Balor
We're all humans living on this tiny little rock, floating through space at, like, thousands of miles an hour. We should all just get along.
I don't really pay attention to the news or stuff like that or what's going on in politics.
I really believe in the power of positive thinking and the collective power of people's thoughts spawning something into becoming reality.
It's almost like putting on a mask protects you from people's judgments and lets you completely flow freely, like, with all your aggression and our animosity against anything.
I think Finn Balor is more about confidence, a smarter version of Prince Devitt. Otherwise, they have the same core values, same techniques, and the same heart.
I think everybody in WWE and NXT want to be involved in WrestleMania. I can huff and puff and push all I want, but that's something you just can't rush.
I quite like walking out in my sweet new Balor Club jacket, popping my collar and being Mr. Cool.
A lot of people are under the impression that Finn Balor relies on the Demon King, but that is certainly not the case.
The 'Demon King' takes out a lot out of Finn Balor the man emotionally and mentally.
When you go out there, and you're in the ring, honestly, half the time you forget what city you're even in because you're so focused on what you're doing and the task at hand.
I grew up watching wrestling my whole life, so to get the chance to step in the ring that I've watched on TV so many times is a dream come true.
I'm the sort of person with a very short attention span, and I lose interest in things very quickly.
I still can't believe I'm a professional wrestler in the first place. That hasn't sunk in yet. I'm sure I'll look back when I'm 50 or 60, if I make it that far, and think about everything that's happened.
The Demon character is something I draw on occasion. It's something that requires a lot of focus to tap into and really requires the right situation for me to sort of draw on that darker side of my personality.
If you ever have a question or a problem, if you approach Triple H, he might say the most-obvious thing, but it was the last thing you were thinking. As soon as he says it, you're thinking, 'Oh my, why didn't I think of that?' He's very smart, and we're very lucky to have him at our disposal in NXT.
I'm going to look forward to the future as opposed to looking back at the past.
I can honestly say it was the greatest decision of my life coming to WWE.
When I came to NXT, it was very much a developmental brand.
I'm not going to throw in the towel a moment earlier than I think I have to.
I don't see why we should alienate anyone, regardless of sexual orientation, nationality, religion, ethnicity.
That would be a dream match for me to see Finn Balor versus The Undertaker.
If I'm going to draw something, I don't know the day before what I'm going to draw. It's just very much an interpretation of how I'm feeling that day and what I think is the coolest thing in my brain at that very moment.
I'm very lucky to be working at NXT with coaches, especially Matt Bloom, who is open-minded and a great ribber.
Japan took me in as one of their own and treated me like one of their own.
Nobody thought Finn Balor would be in the WWE. Here I am.
If you're going to learn about entrances from anyone, you might learn from the Undertaker.
Obviously, everyone wants to headline 'WrestleMania.'
When kids tune in and see Jordan Devlin, Trent Seven, Pete Dunne, Wolfgang on the WWE Network, and then they see a poster at the town hall for their local wrestling show, they're gonna say, 'Oh my God, that's Pete Dunne. I wanna go see him.'
Every child has played video games growing up and played WWE games. To be part of a video game, it's an unbelievable experience.
I didn't realize how much the paint was going to affect how I moved and how I walked. And it wasn't something that consciously happened. It was because the first time I'd done it was a Tokyo Dome show, I want to say in 2013-14, and I walked out there, and I was a completely different person.
I had to use a lot of the lessons I learned from fighting Samoa Joe and apply them to Bray Wyatt.
I was six years old watching wrestling on TV. I was eight years old watching Ultimate Warrior run to the ring at WrestleMania. I was eighteen years old starting out on a journey in the U.K. wanting to be a professional wrestler.
It was a big gamble to come to WWE, and it was a big gamble to come to NXT. Honestly, the gamble paid off.
How I feel as a person and what I support as a person always remains the same, and that is continuing to support LGBT communities around the world.
I've seen a lot of different training schools and dojos, and the sheer level of professionalism at the Performance Center and the state-of-the-art facility just knocked me for a six. It really blew me away.
2010 was an incredible year for me. I won the Best of the Super Juniors, and went on to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title. That was an unbelievable achievement.
Ireland has always been a nation of great athletes from the past: in the nineties, we had Sonia O'Sullivan and Steve Collins.
When you're in NXT, you're really fighting and trying to dig down deep and chase your dream.
The whole Demon character was designed for people to hate me more and to be scared of me, and it kind of backfired in the sense that people kind of like it now.
It's a very simple answer, how to get my abs so defined. I have a very healthy diet of a lot of laughter. If you laugh all the time, you're consistently flexing your abdominals all the time.
Going through secondary school in Ireland, everyone's like, 'What are you gonna do when you finish school? Go to college? Study business? Study electronics?' I was like, 'Well I kinda love wrestling, so I don't see why I should want to study anything else except wrestling.' For me, it was a no brainer.
The crowd down in Australia is always so energetic, some of the best crowds in the world to perform in front of.
You can kind of run drills and practice, rehab behind closed doors as much as you can, but there's nothing that simulates being in front of a live audience with live TV cameras.
Everyone that watches wrestling as a kid dreams of being a wrestler for WWE.
I came to WWE to be on 'WrestleMania' and to be in a 'WrestleMania' main event.
I came up in the U.K., which is a very catch-as-catch-can style, and then I somehow ended up in Japan and spent eight years there learning strong style. I got to spend some time in Mexico learning the lucha libre style, and the WWE is a hybrid style of everything mixed together.
Balor Club is for everyone.
I've got a pretty wild imagination, and a lot of times, I have to be reeled back in.
My parents have supported me everywhere I've went: U.K. to Japan, NXT.
