The Ultimate Warrior

If I was young again and wanted to be a professional wrestler, first thing I'd do is get jacked all to hell is what I'd do.

The Ultimate Warrior character relative to professional wrestling or WWE, he's definitely a Hall of Famer. He's a Hall of Famer whether he gets into the Hall of Fame or not.

Back at the beginning of my career, I had to make all these sacrifices - sleeping in a car on nights where I'd wrestle in front of 20,000 people - because I wasn't making any money.

I remember travelling up and down the road, and I kept journals during my whole career, and I was always making notes about things I wanted to say, words I wanted to create, actions I wanted to do, things I wanted to do to make the character more imaginative and fantastical.

During the second term of the Clinton presidency... I thought, 'Here is the literal and figurative role model for the United States of America behaving like a perverted little kid.' I just found it all really unmanly and undignified.

I could have been in a house show the day before being flown in to do the Survivor Series. I'd do that pay-per-view, then fly out the next day to go do another house show. The pay-per-view just happened in the middle of a 30 or 40-day road tour. For us back then, the WWF talent, it was just another day of work, another day of being on the road.

I remember Wrestlemania VI, being in my locker room painting my face, about halfway done, and the production guys came, and they knocked on the door, and they came in. I was looking in the mirror at them, and they said, 'Hey, Warrior, we've got a cart to take you to the ring.' I just looked at them, and I said, 'I'm running to the ring.'

Thanksgiving Day, the holiday, has a certain feeling to it.

There's a frenetic energy in screaming and yelling and being a rebel in a way.

Live your own life; practice what you preach.

I own my life. I get to do what I want when I want.

I have an intense personality, and a lot of the qualities that the Ultimate Warrior had still apply to my everyday life.