I always wanted to become a good role model for kids as a professional football player. Unfortunately, I didn't attain that through football, but I was smart enough to realize that professional wrestling provided another opportunity for that.

I made the final decision to become a professional wrestler because I was able to look at Sting and what he was able to do inside and outside the ring.

All those guys wanna be us. All the fighters wanna be in professional wrestling; I don't care what they say.

As a professional wrestler, it's not my position to be the booker, to formulate a match, unless you're asked to do that.

Until having kids, I had never really thought about mortality so much.

Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.