24 Quotes by T. J. Perkins

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

I try to take each moment at a time.

At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.

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

I could program the VCR when I was really young.

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.