In a recent interview with Caroline Pierce for TNT Sports, WWE superstar CM Punk discussed several topics, including making the decision to return to the WWE after over a decade away.

“I answered this question earlier tonight, I think it’s just time, timing is everything. You know, I wrestled for a very long time before I signed a WWE contract, and I was on the road for 10 years, zero time off, that takes its toll.

I think one of the things that I never did before was trying to balance everything out, and I think a lot of fighters, a lot of wrestlers do that, balance is kind of key, but when you’re young and you want to go, and you have to take every opportunity that comes your way, you can’t say no, and then after a while you burn out, so I burnt out 10 years ago.

I left and did some other things, I got to do a lot of cool other stuff, time heals all wounds, you slowly start to realize that, a lot of this stuff that happened 10 years ago doesn’t matter, different people come and go, different people are in charge now, maybe I can go back and you know, it kind of fits like an old slipper, and it’s good to be back, and I’m super happy it happened and the way I came back, and how big it’s been never could have been what it was without all the other crap right, so that’s just like, like I woke up this morning, so it’s a good day.”