A biography for Stone Cold Steve Austinhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm telling you, there have been some great finishers in the world of pro wrestling or sports entertainment. Whatever you want to call it. Man, I enjoyed the Iron Claw back in the day. I believed it was real.”
“Don't look forward to me putting on the trunks and knee braces to get back in the ring and stomp a mudhole in somebody and walking it dry.”
“A great gimmick is a great gimmick, but on a dud, it just doesn't work. It comes down to talent.”
“When I see things through my eyes, I don't want to ever just be really negative towards someone's performance. There are many ways to skin a cat. Sometimes I watch the guys, and they're doing different things than I would have done, but I don't ever want to be too critical.”
“You know how much money I could have made playing professional football as a tight end? But I can't jump, and I can't run fast. That was my problem.”
“I had a lot more creative freedom back in the day.”
“I found out in pro wrestling that it works better if you just try and be yourself versus working on something you're not, so I'm me, and maybe it's magnified a bit, but it's easier just being me.”
“When I went out and did what I did in the world of professional wrestling as Stone Cold Steve Austin, pretty much anything and everything thing I said was ad lib, on the spot, just let it fly and go for it.”
“My exit strategy from pro wrestling wasn't carved in stone. I retired because of a few neck issues, some neurological issues.”
“I'm really proud of 'Broken Skull Challenge.'”
“I really value my days down there in ECW in Philly.”
“In the ring, if someone hits you too hard, you can only take so many of those, and you have to send back a receipt, meaning 'Hey, settle down.' If a guy has a bad night at the office and catches you in the chin, you pop him so he knows what's going on.”
“I love the business of pro wrestling, and it is something I know better than anything else I know about.”
“I am not a coward.”
“When that glass broke and 'Stone Cold' was making an entrance, and that roof blew off that building, that sends you higher than life or anything that I know of. It's an adrenaline rush you can't explain.”
“Wrestling is a very serious subject for me.”
“I got pile drived in '96 or '97 and was a quadriplegic for about a minute and a half. I couldn't move anything. It was in the Meadowlands at a pay per view with a million or two people watching, and I couldn't move. That cost me a surgery, but I healed pretty quickly, so that was probably my worst day at the office.”
“I appreciate everyone that had supported my career.”
“Diamond Dallas Page is one of my best friends.”
“I got out of the business when I got out. The hunger was out of my system.”