Stone Cold Steve Austin

“When I came to WWE back in the day, I'd been working seven-and-a-half years, and I was very frustrated. I started getting some momentum, and my work was very vicious, and it was very believable.”

“My run cannot be touched. If you want to talk about longevity, you can speak the name Hogan. If you want to talk about white-hot, selling tickets, and taking the business to a height it's never been - and, with a hell of a supporting cast, I might add - you're talking about Stone Cold Steve Austin.”

“You're in there, you're having a match, and you're feeding off that crowd. That's the gasoline that fuels the match, and that's how you make your decisions. If you're not listening to that crowd when you're working, you're missing the biggest part of what working is all about.”

“Everyone can have a rough day at the office, as they say. I've had those myself many times when the bell rings.”

“John Cena has done well for himself.”

“With the Monday Night Wars, it was almost a pay-per-view every single Monday between the two factions because they were trying to throw everything but the kitchen sink to win the ratings war.”

“I love my fans, and I love my relationship with the fans, but when you're a performer, and you're used to being the mac daddy, the main cat, and all of a sudden you're not that guy anymore, it's kind of a whole different spectrum and a whole different level.”

“Probably the greatest match in my career, and really put me on the match as a main event guy and paved the way for what I was to become, was Wrestlemania 13, with the one and only, Bret 'The Hitman' Hart.”

“When I got into professional wrestling, I started, and I starved for two years, and I finally got some breaks. And then I got the biggest break, and I made the most of it and took wresting to its highest level ever.”

“I've got a chance to host a show called 'Redneck Island' on CMT. I love doing that show.”

“Say the average arena is 20,000 people. You're in the very center of that arena, and you're playing to the worst seat in the house up there. So everything is very big, very large. It's like a very violent form of Broadway in a 20x20 ring.”

“As much as I love the business and I love my fans, I don't want to be at every WrestleMania.”

“I don't have the talent of Daniel Day-Lewis. I'm Steve Austin, so when I get to hang out and be who I am, and I live on set, it's like a paid vacation, man.”

“When you wrestle for 15 years, you don't want to go back to driving that forklift.”

“I think 'The Condemned' has a great story. It's a lot more than a mindless action flick.”

“In 'The Condemned,' if you saw the movie, that's all me; I'll go toe to toe with anyone in an action movie.”

“The thing that's so tough about 'Broken Skull Challenge' is you're going head-to-head with another human being who may or may not be stronger than you and may or may not want it more than you.”

“I love my mother to death. I'm pretty much a reflection of her.”

“I own a ranch in Texas, so there's always something to do as far as work goes, whether it's tractor stuff or tearing down fence.”