Ted DiBiase Sr.

“So I went to WCW for three years and quite frankly, it was the most miserable three years of my life in terms of business.”

“The real art of what we do, at least back in the old-school days, was improv. If you were a great worker, you were able to adapt and that skill developed over time because of all the traveling and working in different areas. You learned how to read a crowd.”

“You look at all the athletes who come out of high school and college into professional sports. And they hit it big, they make money, and instead of saving their money, instead of doing the right thing, they go out and buy the biggest house, and the finest car, and then they get hurt, and it's gone.”

“I made a promise to myself that I wouldn't stay too long. I would get out at the top of my career and not be one of those guys who's body had started to go away and sag and look like and old man trying to still make a living.”

“I am a minister and I preach forgiveness all time.”

“I remember when I was in Mid-South and they used to tape interviews every Wednesday morning, and I wasn't required to go to the interviews because I was a rookie and I wasn't cutting any interviews - I was a curtain jerker. But I went every Wednesday anyway because I was going to watch those guys and I was going to glean from them.”

“WCW started basically buying talent created by Vince McMahon because that's what they did with Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall and myself and gave us contracts.”

“I travel all over the United States basically in evangelism, speaking in churches, speaking in prisons, speaking in rehab centers wherever I can basically sharing my story of redemption and the turnaround in my life.”

“Wrestling is an art form.”

“Mid-South is what started my whole career.”

“It doesn't take a lot of preparation for the Rumble compared to how you would prepare for a match where it's you and another guy.”

“There's a lot of guys that made big money in wrestling because they just projected such a realistic character. And they weren't necessarily great athletes. Junkyard Dog played football, Junkyard Dog the wrestler, mechanically in the ring he was just not that good. His gift was, unbelievable work on the mic. He had charisma coming out of his ears.”

“Vulgarity, in my mind, is not cool.”

“Dusty Rhodes was a great athlete. Actually, he was a baseball player as well. He played football but he played baseball. That was his number one sport. He wasn't always heavyset like he is. But Dusty Rhodes, The American Dream he just gets charisma.”

“Yeah, the first television match that I'm going to have, I got put out there with Danny Hodge and I was scared to death.”

“Reality is, I could have made Japan a career. I could have just gone to Japan and I'd have been great.”

“I was real close with Jim Duggan and Jake Roberts. We all came out of Mid-South, so we all had that in common.”

“You can't promote change standing on the sidelines.”

“I was supposed to be the mouthpiece and financial backer of the NWO but what really happened as this thing got hotter, Eric Bischoff saw where he could slip himself into the role that he hired me for. And that's what he did.”

“I tell everybody all the time: I had a 25-year wrestling career, and I'm most known for laughing.”