Creative satisfaction is highly underrated. When you don't have it, the money doesn't spend nearly as well.
I don't want to discount the nWo stuff because that was huge, and I'm so grateful to be a part of it. And I'm grateful that Eric Bischoff gave me that opportunity. And I had a ton of fun there. But it was nothing compared to the fun and creative satisfaction and just to be part of something amazing that I got from that whole DX experience.
You can get wider. You can't get taller unless Herman Munster's in your shoes.
I'm all about people being able to redeem themselves.
Nobody is exempt from being respectful to the business and paying homage to the guys drawing money. We all have done it. Steve Austin did it; The Rock did it.
For me, I had that reputation as being a guy that did a lot of stuff early on in my career, but to me, at the time I needed to do that in order to be noticed. Eventually, my style evolved and started making it to where every match wasn't about a dive outside of the ring.
When Vince McMahon did ICOPRO, that was ahead of its time. If it had came along five years later, it might have taken off because the products were good, but at the time, nutritional supplements weren't a thing back then.
My name was Lightning Kid; it was pretty much a copy off of Dynamite Kid.
My first memory of King Kong Bundy was on TBS, and he was a member of Legion of Doom.
You hear the word 'fake' thrown around wrestling, but it doesn't get more real when you hear the sound of 20,000 people coming unglued.
A lot of the best villains are the ones that think they are right. That think they are the good guy.
Lars Sullivan and EC3 are made for the main roster, more so than NXT. Obviously, Lars because he's just freakish in so many ways. But EC3, I look at him, and I look at his mannerisms, his mic skills: he's tailor-made for a good push on the main roster.
I like Wade Barrett a lot. I think he has tons of potential.
I've always been a big fan of Jim Neidhart.
The character of Jim 'The Anvil' Neidhart added so much. He was solid in the ring too, really good. His role in the Hart Foundation - he was great. He was a really good, solid power guy that could move in there, too.
The Hart Foundation versus The Brain Busters, if you can find that match, it is fantastic.
Here's the thing: I consider myself pretty well - for somebody that didn't go to high school, pretty well educated.
Actually, the only thing that I can honestly say I really regret now is the blackface thing. I did not understand.
We just get comfortable in our routines, and that's how it worked before, but now you can see wrestling from around the world and all the promotions, and everyone has something online you could see. And many years ago, you could do these routines, and they weren't routines to the fans because they didn't see them as much.
Not every time someone gets hit these days with a kick, they don't necessarily take a flat-back. Maybe less flat-backs add time to a career, but if they miss some of it, it just seems like you're done.
