Every child has played video games growing up and played WWE games. To be part of a video game, it's an unbelievable experience.

That would be a dream match for me to see Finn Balor versus The Undertaker.

NXT is its own kind of animal, and you're never quite sure how much of that transfers over into WWE and into Monday Night Raw.

Wrestling has a funny way of regenerating itself, and I'm sure, in the past, a lot of people have asked questions about 'Who's going to replace Sami Zayn in the locker room?' or 'Who's going to replace Kevin Owens in the locker room?' People always step in.

I spent two years at NXT and a lot of times questioned, 'When is this going to happen?' or 'Is this actually going to happen? Am I going to make it to 'Raw?''

I've got a pretty wild imagination, and a lot of times, I have to be reeled back in.

I often find out, once people have trained, you can never really re-train. When you get trained, you learn to lock up; you learn a wrist lock and, okay, onto the next thing, onto the next thing. You never really go back to the fundamentals.

I found, going to Japan, working in the dojos, brushing up on the fundamentals, that's where I really mastered what I was doing.

As a kid growing up, I was a huge gamer - The NES, SuperNES, N64, GameCube - and I had a GameBoy, which went everywhere with me.

Nobody thought Finn Balor would be in the WWE. Here I am.

I heard Samoans have hard heads, but it turns out what Enzo Amore told me about Samoa Joe's head was true. His head is S-A-W-F-T.

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.

I thrive under pressure.

I'm very lucky to be working at NXT with coaches, especially Matt Bloom, who is open-minded and a great ribber.

When I came to NXT, it was very much a developmental brand.

It wasn't until later in my career that I really focused on the importance on making an entrance.

Japan took me in as one of their own and treated me like one of their own.

If you're going to learn about entrances from anyone, you might learn from the Undertaker.

The 'Demon King' takes out a lot out of Finn Balor the man emotionally and mentally.

Myself, Karl Anderson, and Luke Gallows are best friends. We travel together, we train together, we eat together, and we do a lot of things together.

I had to use a lot of the lessons I learned from fighting Samoa Joe and apply them to Bray Wyatt.

It's been a bit of a struggle getting used to life in the States, adapting to a new lifestyle.

Just the extent of the reach that the WWE Universe has around the world is incredible.

Hopefully, I can be a good role model for kids, and they can grow up to follow their dreams just like I am.

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.

The NXT women are changing the way women's wrestling is viewed. It's an inspiration to be able to watch.

Obviously, everyone wants to headline 'WrestleMania.'

For a long time, we had Raw and SmackDown, and there wasn't really anything else. The NXT Universe kinda opened up channels for wrestlers to come in from the independent circuits, like myself.

There wasn't one defining moment that I said, 'I wanna be a wrestler.' It was just something that was always inside me.

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.

I have no intentions of getting in a UFC cage at all!

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.

I want to be part of the growth of NXT.

I spent a lot of time in Japan. To me, I felt like my career was kind of marooned out there. I didn't realize the extent of the reach that New Japan had in America and around the world.

I've always got a couple of tricks up my sleeve.

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'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.

I've been put into a lot of situations that could be stressful. That's really helped me mature, both as a performer and as a man.

I don't do well in social environments.

People won't believe this, but I don't really like being the center of attention.

The dojo system in Japan is something very unique. It prepared me not only for wrestling in the States and around the world, but it also prepared me for how to handle myself as an adult in the real world.

I'm not a very emotional person.

When I first went to Japan, I was wrestling under my real name. The Japanese people have a great amount of difficulty with the letters f, r and l. So three out of the six letters in my first name they couldn't say. It was a bit of a mouthful for those guys.

I'm normally a really humble guy.

I don't see why we should alienate anyone, regardless of sexual orientation, nationality, religion, ethnicity.

Ireland has always been a nation of great athletes from the past: in the nineties, we had Sonia O'Sullivan and Steve Collins.

You can only get better by challenging yourself.

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.