A biography for Tommaso Ciampahasn’t been written yet.
“I don't know that I like the idea of having NXT television superstars in the crowd. I don't want to have people from Raw and SmackDown in the crowd while I'm wrestling.”
“I had finally come to the point where I was catching the momentum but then I had torn my ACL, which is kind of the story of my life where I keep getting injured from an ACL.”
“That NXT title, in character and out of character, it means the world to me.”
“Actually going to WrestleMania, then going home and sleeping in our own bed is a pretty wild concept.”
“I grew up on these long, drawn-out stories with four pay-per-views a year where things paid off. Everything was done for a reason. Then all of a sudden, I find myself in NXT and I get to play that out. I'm playing out my childhood.”
“NXT and CWC have truly changed my career, my life and my family's life.”
“Early in my career, playing a character was vital. I had to be Thomas Penmanship because I couldn't be Tommaso because he is a shy kid, so I had to create an alter-ego.”
“I feel like I do my best work when I am put into scenarios where there's some in-depth story to be told.”
“The reaction from the fans has, quite possibly, been the most rewarding part of the journey thus far. I feel as though the fans have grown with me over the past 12 years through both triumph and disappointment.”
“When 'In Your House' became a thing when I was a kid, it was just the coolest ever and people are winning houses... So when NXT is bringing out the old-school graphics, the only thing I'm wondering is if somehow we could have that old 'In Your House' set. That's all just the fan in me.”
“I love that when I got to NXT, it was a couple TakeOvers and now it's more.”
“Sometimes injuries can be the best thing that happen to a guy because it allows you to freshen up and allows the crowd to miss you.”
“In my own mind, I don't want to be the weak link of the team.”
“Luckily, I'm not afraid of heights.”
“I enjoyed those last eight to 12 independent bookings, just took them and appreciated them for what they were.”
“For me, my layer came so organically, 'oh, he went and got neck surgery,' and you see a bit of real life with the baby, my wife and home life. It opened up this whole new insight into me for the viewer.”
“The old saying goes, 'Hit me with a cast once, shame on me, hit me with a cast twice, you're a dead man.'”
“I ended up voluntarily leaving Ring of Honor when my contract was up because I was making so much more money on the independent scene.”
“I bleed black and gold. NXT is home.”
“The amount I got to experience in my home life really did outweigh what I was missing in wrestling.”