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“Brock Lesnar is soft, I'm going to say it, he's soft.”
“I do know if you lace up a pair of boots, Kurt Angle is someone you want to get in the ring with.”
“I have a fascination with Egypt. It's the greatest civilization. When the rest of the world was still in darkness, there were universities in Egypt and there were monetary systems, the pyramids.”
“Crime does pay, it pays well. But what they don't tell you is you have to pay it all back with interest.”
“If somebody comes to me and asks advice or for a criticism, I have no issue giving it to them because at the end of the day, we all win and the fans win, and that's what it's all about.”
“I've known Miz for a long time. We were both at the now-defunct Deep South developmental territory, and dude works hard. He works really, really hard at his craft. I remember him vaguely as that kid from 'The Real World,' and I had no respect for him, but he earned my respect by working hard and practicing and improving his craft.”
“Years ago when I had my first dark match against Norman Smiley, Norman took me to the side and introduced me to Booker and we spent a few minutes talking and he gave me some advice and back then he was kind enough to give me his number and told me to give him a call if I ever needed any advice.”
“I don't want to see a kid get hurt trying to imitate me or trying to do something he or she has seen one of my peers do.”
“Any time you have two talents on the screen, the whole point is to create compelling television. You want to create something that the fans are going to tune in to watch.”
“I'm the black sheep in a family of cops. I understand how difficult the job is.”
“For me Japan was my dream and the WWE was my goal, so making it to the WWE and actually standing in that ring for the first time in front of millions of people nationally and tens of millions of people internationally, I was there, I was at the show! it was so real, that's the best way I can describe it.”
“We Americans have a lot to learn about how sports should be done.”
“I will say this: love Vince McMahon or hate Vince McMahon, no matter what you feel about him, he has always treated me well.”
“I never really saw myself as a producer but there were times when I thought after my in-ring career perhaps I could go into being a commentator or coming back as a general manager.”
“Those who have read the book and followed my tumultuous life understand that in many ways my life parallels 'the Count of Monte Cristo' - the only difference is his friends sent him away and he did nothing.”
“Historically all of the greats, Stone Cold Steve Austin, that's Steve with the volume turned way up to his personality, Dwayne Johnson is The Rock, he just turns his volume on his personality way up.”
“There was a prison guard that introduced me to pro wrestling and I needed a hobby, so I devoted myself to it - I lived it, ate it and slept it and that's how I became MVP. So people might think MVP was an overnight success, but I had to travel a long way to get there.”
“I don't like orange soda, but I don't wish Sunkist goes out of business. I just don't drink it.”
“New Japan is my personal favorite wrestling company, working there was my dream; it was my dream to wrestle in the Tokyo Dome.”
“I sprint to keep my wind up.”