"TNA Is Not Going Out Of Business!" - 10 Questions With Matt Hardy

1. A few years ago, many people were concerned for your wellbeing, but now you seem to be on top of your game both in your professional and personal life. How have you managed to turn things around?

I think I learned from my mistakes. One thing you have to be very careful about in professional wrestling is letting your passion overrun you. There were times where I was trying to wrestle too aggressive a schedule with the WWE and my body wasn€™t up for it. I more or less burnt myself out physically, mentally and emotionally. I had to learn from those experiences. Nowadays, one of the reasons that TNA is such a great fit for me is because of the schedule. They work very much with me. I wrestle for TNA on their television every five or six weeks, three or four days at a time, plus I work some individual shows on the weekends for some of the bigger regional companies. But I have enough time to recharge my batteries, especially at my age €“ I just turned 41. That was very important. If you€™re an athlete, as you age, it becomes a tough thing, and learning how to deal with it and how to pace yourself is, I think, the secret to being successful at a later age. That€™s what I had to do. It was like my growing pain of getting to that phase of my career.