Half Quote by Hornswoggle

I didn’t have any plans to become a wrestler until about a year before I started.

— Ric Flair

I wrestled in Detroit many times before getting to WWE.

— Kevin Owens

I was the first WWE developmental talent. When I moved to Connecticut to start training, I had no idea what wrestling was other than…

— Mark Henry

After college I started training to be a wrestler which led me to the WWE.

— Mandy Rose

I used to live in Philly, so I was in Baltimore a lot wrestling before I got to WWE, wrestling for different promotions.

— Cesaro

I did not watch a lot of wrestling while growing up. I started following after I came up to WWE.

— Bianca Belair

I grew up a wrestler; for a long time in Oklahoma I was a wrestler.

— Christian Kane

I started doing wrestling just as a fun thing and I ended up getting some breaks and made a job out of it but…

— Ric Savage

Back in 2004 I trained at an independent wrestling school and performed in front of crowds of around 200, then I got signed to…

— Wade Barrett

I did high school wrestling. I was first in the state of Florida and ninth in the nation in folkstyle. Freestyle and folkstyle wrestling…

— Lacey Evans

I did start wrestling after I moved to Iowa, I think in the seventh grade. It's really a part of the Iowa culture so…

— Robbie Lawler

I got hooked up with WWE pretty early on in my career.

— Aiden English