When you become a professional wrestler, your name becomes company property.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If I didn't have the wrestling name that I have, I wouldn't have gotten the financial contract that I got with Strikeforce or the long-term contract or the television contract. That's all because of wrestling.
To WWE and to everyone who owns WWE, it's a business, and if you become something to the people, you're going to become something to the company. It's just that simple now.
I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I signed on to work with a wrestler.
Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there.
I'm the man that made wrestling famous.
I don't want to be the kind of wrestler that has to do it because he needs the money.
We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.
Everyone wants to call wrestling 'the business.' Why don't you treat it like a business? I don't care if you're running a diner, if you're running a car wash or a wrestling company. It's all business.
If it took professional wrestling for people to recognize me as a person, then all the other endeavors I embark upon will explain me as a person, define me as a person, but wrestling will not define me.