Black culture - we dance and sing. We're entertainers. James Brown said it best: the things we are make people want to be like us.
Learn how to humble yourself, and be able to take advice and not feel like you know everything.
I never in my career did appearances, like where you go and sign autographs, and you do the comic-cons and all of that stuff, because I wanted, when I stopped wrestling, to go and do that stuff and have it really mean something to somebody, that it hadn't been watered down.
Originally, nobody knew John Cena rapped. It was just something he did in the car. I told Bruce Prichard, and that's how the whole 'Thugonomics' run began.
Ribbing is a part of wrestling. That's the way they show a fondness for you - they play practical jokes on you. They put your wrestling gear in plastic bags and throw it in the shower. Just stupid stuff.
I was called everything ugly and black in the world. Man, those where some tough times. They called me Fat Albert, Magilla Gorilla, black ape. It all hurt.
Personally, I had no confines: there were no bounds, no boundaries that I felt when I got in the ring.
It may be the swansong of my wrestling career, but definitely not the end of Mark Henry!
I usually eat whatever I want... about 5,000 to 7,000 calories a day.
Daniel Bryan is one of my favorite wrestlers - as a talent, as an entertainer, the way our fans love and revere him. There's never been a match he and I have been in where it was bad.
Daniel Bryan is a good athlete, but he's a better entertainer.
I've always been a big guy. I weighed 220 pounds in the 5th grade.
Indian wrestlers definitely have a place in the industry.
Nobody will ever top Owen Hart. Owen was like a brother to me. I loved him so much because he made me laugh harder than anyone's made me laugh in my life.
I remember being in a situation where everybody, as much as they loved seeing Jerry Lawler's gimmick, they loved to hate him. That's one of the things I learned early on, that if you're going to be in a situation where you're taking on a dominant competitor, you have to get to the point where you love to be hated, if that is what is required.
The only thing better than winning a gold medal is going to Heaven.
I was kind of sheltered. I grew up in Silsbee, Texas, a town of 3,000 people.
I'd like to be a tag titleholder, I'd like to be the WWE champion, but more than anything, I want to make guys leaders.
My kids are jaded, spoiled, entitled as hell.
To know that you will be in the International Sports Hall of Fame and that people for hundreds of years will know who you are and what you did, it means everything.
