In the ring, it's fun to be the bad guy, but 24 hours a day, when you have to talk to kids, and you see Make-A-Wish kids that love you, the bad guy stuff is not fun. I'd rather be a good guy 24 hours a day than a bad guy just for a few minutes in the ring.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

Everybody's out there wrestling like a robot.

I've always felt from everyone I talk to that the fans feel like I'm tangible and they can talk to me and they know me.

You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.

I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.

We're probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship.