Don't get me wrong - our fanbase is super passionate, and I love them, but there's a difference between stalking me at the airport and just happening to see me.
— Seth Rollins
One thing I never thought I would get to do is end up on 'The Daily Show,' not once, but twice.
As long as the title's on the line, that's the match I want to be in.
My character is very polarising, sure.
In life, if you're not learning from every experience, even the bad ones, you're really messing up. That's the marker of a smart, intelligent individual.
I didn't have any pedigree or any last name that would get me an opportunity to get looked at by WWE.
You just can't be someone else all the time; you just have to be you sometimes.
As athletes, we train and travel so much, a lot of times our needs are not met calorically. But I don't like eating to be a chore, so I kind of just go with the flow.
Sometimes, if you go to the same gyms, the fans catch on to that, and they start hanging out at the gyms. It becomes a little bit of a circus.
SummerSlam is always huge. I look at it like it is Wrestlemania.
Breakfast, for me, is usually some sort of omelette with some meat and veggies and potatoes and some good coffee. Then I'll usually do that into a workout, and I'll follow my workout with a shake, which is mostly protein and a little carb.
Fake is, like, the worst word you could possibly use to describe anything, you know?
Dean Ambrose is somebody that I broke in with - The Shield - and we had a falling out, and things didn't go very well for us for awhile.
Ever since I was 3 years old, I wanted to be WWE champion. I got that belt during WrestleMania 31, and I want it back. It's what drives me.
The Pedigree was something that I feel very fortunate to have it as a finisher.
I've done bingo halls and tents in front of 10 people with a cow mooing in the background. Doing that and then going to WrestleMania and the Superdome and wrestling in front of 80,000 people is night and day.
I'm firmly entrenched in the Seth Rollins character. It is so close to who I am as a person, we're almost overtly intertwined.
My biological dad was Armenian. My last name is Lopez, and I have a darker complexion, which throws people for a loop. My mother's first husband is Mexican. That's where I got Lopez.
They can't hang outside my hotel or come to the gym and stare at me for a half hour and expect me to be like, 'Cool. Awesome.'
The Shield had run its course as a three-man group, and we'll go down in history as one of the greatest factions of all time.
Being able to be the guy that took down The Shield, there were a lot of people in the locker room who wish they could have said that.
As good as that first year in Ring of Honor was, the second year was really, really bad for me. In retrospect, it was great for me, but at the time, it was a tough situation to be in. I didn't have anyone around to mentor me where I needed to be.
My brother and I would wrestle in my grandparents' living room; that was our spot.
The Shield was only around for what? Two years? And we did a lot in two years. I think the fact that people even take those two years and put them up against the reputations of those other groups really says a lot about what we were able to accomplish in that short period of time.
I'm a huge proponent of eating real food and eating a lot if it.
Any time you have significant injury, it is about the perspective, how you attack it.
Summerslam was a huge part of my childhood.
I think everyone respects Rock. He's obviously been in our industry his entire life in some form or fashion. He's a guy that works really hard, and most of our performers can appreciate that one way or another, whether it's in the movie industry or our industry.
Getting to share the ring with guys I idolized is never going to stop being surreal for me.
If the opportunity came about, I would have no problem taking on The Rock at WrestleMania - sounds like a good time to me.
All my life I wanted to be WWE champion, so when I won that, that was great.
I was a big Hulkamaniac growing up in the early '90s.
Sometimes I wrestled in front of very small crowds for very small amounts.
A lot of celebrities who come on WWE, they don't know what to expect. And sometimes our crowd and our fans eat them up.
It's nice when I have days off to go home and relax and literally take the weight off my shoulders and enjoy the simple things.
I'm not mean to fans because I'm a bad guy. I'm mean to them because they're rude.
I'm well-versed on the mat, but I can pick up people much bigger than me.
At the end of the day, if you look where The Shield was, where else are we going to go? Are we going to share the WWE World Heavyweight Championship? I don't think so.
I was lucky enough at a young age to find out what I had a passion for, but whatever you've got a curiosity for, just give it a shot.
The joke we always say is that WWE doesn't pay us to wrestle, they pay us to travel.
The style is getting faster and faster. The athletes are getting better and better. The future is pretty bright for WWE.
Over the course of three years or so, I've been able to create a nice little Rolodex of CrossFit gyms. I've ingratiated myself to the community, and that allows for a much more accessible training session as far as privacy is concerned.
Injuries make you stronger.
Usually, I get a bowl from Chipotle with rice and veggies and some meat and gotta get some guac on there because that's the best part.
With social media now, everybody's faceless, but I assume these kids sending me pictures of myself of Instagram are twelve, thirteen years old.
I spent a few years cutting my teeth in the Midwest; I worked for Ring of Honor, then I went down to Florida and relearned everything there.
Wrestling fans are usually pretty passionate, but Philly is one of the cities that takes that to a different level.
I am determined and never give up. Ever. I always do my best.
I grew up a huge fan of the WWE.
I like a good suspense thriller when it's smart and well done like 'Armed Response' is.
