TYRUS

I loved my time in Deep South Wrestling. We trained so hard and I got a crash course into the world of sports entertainment and pro wrestling.

If you commit to something, you believe it and you have fun with it, people are going to respect that.

Watching 'WrestleMania' growing up, it was like a neighborhood party. It was like the Super Bowl on my block, the only difference was, football was only around for 16 weeks while wrestling was every Saturday.

The biggest thing about Snoop is, you gotta understand, everybody wants a piece of him. They want to touch him. They want to talk to him.

I cracked one joke and I was the 'Funkasaurus.'

I got catfished by WWE constantly. You're 26 - 0, and then you run into the Big Show and then you're 0 - 26.

Make America Great Again was a political slogan. It was used before, I believe Ronald Reagan used it before. It was about making America great and rallying America. Unfortunately, I would say 10 percent of the population that voted for President Trump has a different view. They have embraced it as 'Make America White Again.'

Probably the biggest thing for me was my Wrestlemania match getting cut; I don't think I ever really mentally recovered from that.

We need term limits desperately in this country.

If you're good at what you do regardless of what is thrown in front of you, you will make it work.

The Funkasaurus character was great and it taught me about being humble, about the character, about not being concerned with what people think you should be.

Yeah, no desire to live in New York. Giant buildings and it's cold and I'm a big Patriot, Red Sox's fan. What can I possibly do for fun in New York?

I really didn't find myself… I was trying too hard to be too many things so I wasn't really anything.

You know, anytime you take one group and you blame them for a problem, there is an issue.

I went to a wrestling school in Canada. That did not work out well, I think I was out there for like a week.

Wrestling, football, basketball, and baseball were the four things I was obsessed with as a kid.

I think if I was like Fred Astaire out there or like break dance fighting and doing crazy splits and stuff like that I think people would be like, 'ehhhh, I'm just going to watch him,' but the fact that they're like, 'I can do that,' it's fun and I think they lose themselves.

I knew Funkasaurus wasn't winning the World Championship, but I knew Brodus Clay could have.

It's hard to be mad, it's a lot of energy.

I wanted, if anything else, Brodus Clay to be remembered as somebody who got you out of your seat and I think that'll be remembered so you've got to come 100% with that.

There's always a Cena fan that wants to talk to me about it, and it drives me absolutely nuts. They'll come up to me in Cena stuff saying 'Why didn't you wrestle Cena?' Bro, I don't know.

Actually, the original nickname that I was told - it scared me to death - was Heavy G. I think the last thing you want to be known as is Heavy anything. No offense to Heavy D - rest his soul. Worked for him, wasn't really my bag.

I packed my bags and went back to California and actually put wrestling behind me. I actually thought, well you know what, I thought it was crazy I made it once and to think I'm going to come back or whatever was unrealistic goal. So I went back to bodyguarding and substitute teaching.

WrestleMania's the accumulation of a lot of things. All the shareholders come in for all the meetings with the suits and everything.

I'm always teasing and clowning around and laughing and in the locker room I tend to always have something to say.