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Since the day I was born, wrestling has sustained me and my family. It's the way my father fed me; it's the way I feed my kids. More importantly, wrestling is my greatest release. It's been such a blessing for me. I can step into the ring and let it all go - all my anger, all my frustration, all my pain.

Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.

I was a striker before a wrestler. I've always wanted to knock people out.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

The wrestling world is unique. There are things that happened, and there are things that didn't happen, but in wrestling, you just say they all happened. Some of it's fun to let stay out there - it adds to the mystique and wrestling lore.

You know a lot of times wrestlers get too full of themselves. They can't separate themselves from the characters. They get used to the excitement, the energy, the lifestyle and the money and with a lot of these guys, when it stops, they self-destruct.

Wrestling's a form of expression, and it expresses vastness.

To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.