Rob Van Dam

I'm a strong believer in modern medicine. I think it has its use in society. I think it adds longevity to our life expectancy.

I'm a real-life action hero.

In Total Nonstop Action, individual wrestlers have a lot more freedom to artistically express themselves versus WWE.

In front of millions of people that paid to see you at your best, who expect you to be in action-figure shape and condition on that particular night for that moment, you've got to deliver.

Acting is fun. I especially like the action sequences. That's what I do best.

I'm proud of my independence. And certainly from a business perspective, that's always been a main agenda for me - to make my own position, don't try and be like somebody else, because there already is that somebody else.

In any business that you pursue, if you belong at the top, and you're perceived as having that caliber, and you do qualify, then it's something that you want to hold on to.

You can't patent a move. It's challenging enough to come up with a move that nobody else does... I try and do things that I would want to see done that I haven't seen other people do. Most wrestlers obviously don't think that way, and instead they steal somebody's move as soon as they've gone on to the next company.

For me, the fans missing me and wanting to see me on TV is very important, but the business end of it also has to be right.

Anyone in the entertainment business, respectively, is a show-off.

I have an incredibly dry sense of humor.

WWE didn't want RVD to get over when I was there. They tried so much to... to... not get me... to... to... keep me from that. They didn't understand why the fans liked me, because I don't fit the cookie cutter formula, because I am a non-conformist.