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I belong in the ring.
I hate the word 'annoying!'
You have to stand by your beliefs.
I'm bad at fishing for information.
Your priorities change when you get older.
I have that inherent performer personality.
I've been beat up pretty badly back in my day.
I always wanted to be a wrestler when I grew up.
I want to leave a legacy behind that is undeniable.
I'm a Canadian citizen, but I do have a green card.
I am very privileged. I have everything I want and more.
Any time I'm donating to charity, I feel it's very daunting.
I'm very much an Arab, although I need to practise my Arabic more.
I always consider myself Syrian. I just happen to be born in Canada.
Man, it feels great to do anything that might brighten someone else's day.
When I was playing street hockey, I really thought that I had some skills!
I do feel, in a lot of ways, that I'm living proof that anything is possible.
I believe in just being yourself, and the whole kit and caboodle comes with it.
Even when you just hear the word 'Syria,' it packs a lot of political connotations.
Russ Courtnall was my absolute favorite player. Patrick Roy was there, too, of course.
I have been in the ring with Kevin Owens for about 12 years; I'm used to getting beat up.
I'm an idealist. You do things your way well enough, for long enough, you'll get rewarded.
Not every magical moment in your career is going to happen on the biggest stage of the year.
Selfishly, it feels great for me to do something that might put a smile on someone else's face.
The thing, in general, about being a good person is just do the right thing as often as possible.
A crowd's a crowd, and to me, it's not so much about the size as much it is the energy we're getting.
I have always loved wrestling and grew up watching it - my earliest memories include watching Hulk Hogan.
I don't think it really serves to make the world a better place, when you're only concerned about yourself.
If my parents didn't come to Canada in the '70s, I probably wouldn't be living my dream to be a WWE superstar.
I don't know if it's a male thing, but a lot of our emotions end up manifesting themselves in the form of anger.
I just want to win the world title; I don't want to be a guy that Vince McMahon looks at and says, 'Never. We can't.'
If you work really hard at something for a really, really long time, you do it well. Eventually, somebody will notice.
I was always a wrestling fan, and being an Arab kid who grew up in Canada, there was no representation for people like me.
I love hearing positive things; somewhere, way deep down, I'm sure I'm an egomaniac. I guess all performers are, in a way.
The heel I want to be is real mouthy, which is fine, but I want to be a guy that can be taken seriously to win the world title.
The game has changed since the '80s, where you could punch and kick and headlock and do one suplex, and that's a 25 minute match.
I was born in Canada, but both my parents are Syrian - they moved to Canada in the '70s, and I was born in a 100-percent-Arab house.
I don't want to tell fans what to think or what to believe or whatever, but at the same time, some things just hit you very personally.
I feel like you almost have to have this mentality: wherever you are is the place to be, and any show you're on is better because you are there.
I don't think there's anything that defines WrestleMania more than Hulk Hogan and The Rock standing across from each other and the crowd going ballistic.
When I was a teenager, a friend of mine got a job on a wrestling radio show in Montreal, and he found a local professional wrestler who was able to train us.
Sitting on the sidelines is so painful because it's very difficult for me to watch wrestling and not be a participant in the ring, since that's just where I belong.
The Hardys were a huge influence on me becoming a wrestler. Not so much the moves themselves, but the concepts behind the moves: trying to be innovative and just being exciting.
If I can be a positive Arab figure on such a large platform such as the WWE, and become some sort of an inspiration to an Arab kid in Lebanon, Egypt, or Jordan, then that's amazing.
Neville and I are big fans of ska. He's actually more into original, Jamaican, skinhead, two-tone ska from England, but I'm more into punk ska - Operation Ivy and stuff Rancid would do.
It's definitely a sensitive topic to discuss, but I have felt, since I signed with the WWE, I was in a unique position to reestablish how Arabs were perceived in the WWE and western media.
A lot of people think I reacted a little too emotionally when I said, 'If I can't beat Adrian Neville, I'm done.' But the truth is, my whole life, I've always followed my heart and my emotions.
It's a slow process, getting hired by WWE. First, you get noticed; you're on their radar. Then you come for a tryout. Then you wait to hear back. There's the physical. It's a very long process.
I want to do something that has never been done, and that's become the first two-time NXT Champion. In a sense, that's a strange distinction to want, but that has to be my goal while I'm in NXT.
As a kid growing up in Montreal, I wanted to become either a hockey player or a wrestler. Since my family didn't have a lot of money, my parents never put me in a hockey league because it was so expensive.