I want to inspire people and show people no matter what happens, no matter how much you get knocked down, you can pick yourself up. Just keep pushing forward, keep being positive.

It was very clear I wasn't giving my all in the past - not even close.

There are a lot of people very sure of themselves that need to be brought back down to Earth. As good as they think they are, they're really not.

I was 21 years old when I first signed with WWE. I finished my university degree and came straight to America.

I am happy to do anything that comes my way, and I will always do my best in anything that presents itself.

I appreciate when people give us some positive feedback, and in the past, when I was younger, I might have allowed it to get to my head and have a bit of an ego.

My goal is to actually top him and be bigger and busier than John Cena.

When you're relaxed, the crowd can see it. They can feel it. They can tell when you're being real, or they can tell when you're forcing it.

I focus very much on the job and my goals and dreams.

Opportunities came because WWE built my name, and I've made the most of it.

Partying isn't as important to me anymore like it was when I was younger.

I started training when I was 15.

Roderick Strong - we've had some of my favorite battles.

It would have been very hard to grow if I hadn't stepped outside the WWE bubble and gain a clear perspective on everything.

For me, the obvious examples of tag teams I was a big fan of, Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard. I would watch them and be blown away by how incredible they were.

I was always impressed by the Road Warriors and Legion of Doom. They were just so large and bigger than life in every possible way.

Oney Lorcan is such a hard-hitting dude, just like me. We go in there, two hard-hitting dudes, and the crowd are going to be taken aback, and that's our goal.

Why would I ever be bitter and negative and focus on the past?

All I want is wrestling to grow while living my dream, and if I can help, then that's beyond my dreams.

I've been so lucky with people giving me an opportunity to showcase the real Drew.

I will never say anything negative about WWE.

From a boy who left university as a student straight to WWE - those experiences, those ups and downs in life and work shaped the wrestler and man I am today.

There are superstars that deserve to be at the top and do give everything.

'WWE' Raw is the No. 1 sports-entertainment show in the world. If it starts to suffer, the rest of the sports-entertainment world starts to suffer.

The Shield has been up at the top for so long now, they're just living in their own little world. They're not working for the boys; they're working for each other.

The Shield is fantastic. They're everything they say they are.

You want to earn that opportunity to be part of WrestleMania, the biggest show of the year.

On the road to WrestleMania, this is where everyone's giving 110 percent.

When you are against a guy like a Bobby Lashley, you have to be smart because he can snap a leg in one second. I treat him with that respect.

I sent away to America for 'The Inside Secrets of Wrestling' that Percy Pringle and Dennis Brent wrote, and Volume 1 told me to keep kayfabe of the book. So I used to keep it in a briefcase, and I'd go to school every day, and everyone would talk about wrestling, and they didn't know what was going on, but I knew what was going on.

When you're by yourself and not with WWE, you are your own business. And I was very successful in that business because of all the lessons I learned.

I truly learned how to be a top brand myself and be what I needed to be.

In WWE, a lot of people took my passion as me thinking I was better or knew more.

I am very passionate about this business, and I always have been.

I'm not a 'Yes Man,' and I've always preferred to go back and forth and find something we both agree on so I can do it to the best of my ability. That was taken in WWE as trying to do what was best for me. In reality, I was trying to be different.

I may look like the stereotypical, prototypical wrestler, but I've always wanted this my whole life.

I know this business better than most people, and I'm extremely passionate about it.

That's all I ever wanted - to go out as myself and have the success or failure fall on me.

In OVW, it was like a different world, pretty much. They had the talent ready to stay around for a while, with guys who weren't over yet and guys who weren't retiring yet. With FCW, WWE were a bit more hands-on with the writers.

I was in FCW for about six months. It was roundabout 2009; a lot of guys started to retire, and they didn't have guys coming in from other companies to replace them.

William Regal is one of my mentors, and I had been talking with him the whole time I have been away from WWE.

NXT is the top roster in the world as far as I'm concerned, the work ethic and fans.

Keeping a secret in the social media age often is impossible.

I've been lucky that I've got myself through various opportunities and platforms and people believing in me - my wife helping in a lot of different areas - and growing up a lot, I've shown I am ready now to be a top guy, to hold that position for the company and show what it is to represent a giant, publicly traded company like WWE.

There is so much more than just what you do in the ring and what you do on the microphone.

I've experienced the highest of highs and been in every single position, and that has taught me so much.

I started wrestling at 15 and signed with world's biggest company by 21 and then had to rebuild myself again.

Most people jump for joy when WWE come calling, and rightly so.

The WWE and World Heavyweight Titles are the ones everyone is aiming for, and if you're not aiming for them, you are in the wrong business - and I like to think that when the time is right, I will get my shot.

I have always been a big rock fan and remember dressing up as Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose for my high school Halloween disco when I was 17. My teacher painted tattoos on, and I wore a small leather waistcoat and not much else.