Top 24 Quotes & Sayings by T. J. Perkins

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American wrestler T. J. Perkins.

Last updated on November 5, 2024.

Theodore James Perkins is an American professional wrestler of Filipino descent, better known by the ring name T.J. Perkins currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling where he is a member of the United Empire stable and current IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion. He also makes occasional appearances for Major League Wrestling. He is best known for his tenures in WWE and Impact Wrestling.

American - Wrestler | Born: September 3, 1984

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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.

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

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Part of the reason why Kobe Bryant is such a big inspiration to me is because he was shipped off to the Lakers right out of high school. He went from English class to the Great Western Forum.

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I've been hit in the head a lot, but I don't think I have any problems, but I can't, for the life of me, remember a lot of my road stories and good times. When times are bad enough, that's all you can ever think about.

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I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.

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Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.

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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.

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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.

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So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.

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I'd really like to go back to New Japan because it feels like home, and I love that place so much.

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It's really exciting to be able to represent the cruiserweights and go to Monday Night Raw. I grew up watching Monday Night Raw, and it's really a big dream of mine to perform on that stage.

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

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I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.

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When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.

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I try to take each moment at a time.

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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.

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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.

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I could program the VCR when I was really young.

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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.

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

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I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere, which was part of the reason I was homeless. I couldn't get a job pumping gas. I couldn't get a job working at a warehouse, I couldn't get a job at Baskin Robbins, I couldn't get a job anywhere.

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