Having the security of being in a series week in, week out gives you great flexibility; you can experience with yourself, try a different scene different ways. If you make a mistake one week, you can look at it and say, 'Well, I won't do that again,' and you're still on the air next week.
Of course I want to be champion because that means you're the best, but I just love wrestling, and if I can have good matches week in and week out, that would make me happy.
When I was playing week-in week-out, I was playing 46 games a season, and there's nothing better than playing every week.
I wanted to get experience of playing a season on loan at a club, to play week in, week out.
The thing that people should remember, is that back in the day, because wrestling does not have a season, every week is a week of first run TV. In the territories that I worked in, specifically, we never had a rerun. So those shows that aired, aired one time to their constituency.
One of the only things that bothered me with WWE and being on every week was blowing off so many great storylines so fast, just out of necessity.
I think people overplay the 'Saturday Night Live' schedule. I mean, yeah, it can be some late hours. But the late hours are usually only one or two nights out of the week. You might have a crazy six-day week, but you'll work three weeks, and then you get a week off work. I'd take most jobs if it was hard work and then I got a week off.
People think it's just a 16-week season, but this is a 52-week kind of job. You're always thinking about how to improve and what to get for the next year.
My hobbies are random. One week I want to exercise, one week I just want to eat all day. One week I'm going out every night and the next week I'm totally locked in my house, not going anywhere. I'm a little bit all over the place, socially. I don't have another passion or hobby - it's really music. I'm in the studio constantly.
I have total admiration for the Renault guys in the garage that are working their socks off, week in, week out.
You imagine running 120 miles a week, week in, week out, for the past four or five years. It takes a little bit out of you.
Every week, I'm faced with, and aware of, 10-14 different reviewable albums that, in a perfect world, I'd be able to pop a review out of. But I'm just one person who, while maintaining my sanity, can only do 5-6 reviews per week.
Football has an off-season. Basketball has an off-season. TV has an off-season. Everything has an off-season except wrestling.
I put my body through hell. I run 120 miles a week, week in, week out.
WWE definitely gives you the forum, the stage to do different things and see what works. That's the cool thing about being in front of a live audience every single week in WWE. You get instant feedback.
I think what is most important to me is to be competitive week-in and week-out - not winning a race one week and then not finishing.