Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.

Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.

Since I knew wrestling was all choreographed, I thought, Oh, they don't get hurt at all. But I walked away with a renewed respect for the sport. Because I was very ignorant before - I knew nothing about it.

A reputation is really hard to live down.

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.

It was either therapy or die.