I don't want to wrestle past 35. There's just too much physical strain with 250-pound men slamming into each other.

It's been a wonderful, wonderful career. It's been just a great run that the Lord gave me and I damn sure appreciate it and thank Him for it and for Him giving me the body and the ability to do what I have done for years.

I have had about 15 operations due to the wrestling profession, and I have a problem with an abdominal hernia.

I'm not gonna squeal out that this is my 23rd retirement, my real, real retirement. But you know there comes a time where you need to look to go in another direction in life, and I have entered that time.

Why does any novelist keep writing long after they've made money? Because they've failed to write the perfect novel.

If you have a sense that your money is somehow, even indirectly, contributing to a cause that you find morally problematic, then it seems somewhere between reasonable and obligatory for you to vote with your dollars.

I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.

I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.