I am not bragging - it may sound like it - but there was nobody in this business that had the aggression and had the body that I had - nobody!
You have to realize in this life and in your life that timing is everything.
Bret Hart was a nobody from Canada, and Hogan was the greatest star in wrestling.
Holy cow, she was tough as nails, man. When I was starting, Moolah was the head woman. She could kick 90 percent of the guys' butts.
I like being a bad guy.
I knew how to upset the people, and I did it in such a way that it was believable. That's how I made a living at it for 20 years. I don't regret a thing I done or said in wrestling. Nothing.
Tito Santana was one of the hardest working guys in the business. When Tito used to make that comeback, the people went crazy because he had so much fire. He had so much damn energy. He could just go and go and go.
I was drafted by the New Orleans Saints, and quite frankly, I got worn out playing football. I got tired of it. With wrestling, there were so many variables that could go with it, so many directions you could go. Every night, it was different. Every night. It was a different town 7 nights a week and twice on Sunday.
I can go any style - hook up, lock up, take you down - and do all kinds of amateur moves.
I believed in making it look real. I was probably hard to work with because I wanted it to make real, and I knew how to wrestle.
When Terry Funk, Harley Race had world titles, it meant more.
I don't care much for Canadians.
The good Lord gave me something, and he gave me intensity. He gave me a body, and he gave me the work and how hard I worked the body the way that it was.
I went to the gym six days a week, three hours a day, and it was part - and it was my life.
I could have been Mr. America if I wanted to be, but I chose wrestling. I could have played pro-football, but I chose wrestling.
I was drafted by the New Orleans Saints and was tired of dealing with injuries. I just got tired of playing football, if you want to know the truth, and I was sitting on the floor at my father in-law's house and started to watch pro wrestling. I've watched it for a little bit before, so I thought to myself, 'You know what? I can do that!'
God made me to be a sports player. He didn't make me to be a professor or any of that other crap.
I like contact sports like football. I like collisions, and I was good at it.
I worked every night, and I'd go 25, 35, 45 minutes, and that is what made me, and that is that I knew how to work, and I knew how to work the people.
Roddy actually was in the business longer then I was and started sooner than I did, and Roddy was a smart guy.
