I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.

A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.

Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.

I vowed I wouldn't ever let anyone destroy me again. I was going to work at it every day, so hard that I would be the toughest guy in the world. By the end of practice, I wanted to be physically tired, to know that I'd been through a workout. If I wasn't tired, I must have cheated somehow, so I stayed a little longer.

There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.

I can take anyone down at anytime; they can't take me down; no one can ride or turn me; I can control anyone.

But we've got to work. We can't just live on reputations at all - by any means.