I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

[The tension] between the Christians and Muslims goes back to the Crusades, doesn't it? It's too easy to blame everything on one guy. These are unpredictable, dangerous times, and I don't think that anyone really knows quite what to do.

All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.

The two sports are as different as Ping-Pong and rugby. In boxing, you don’t know what’s going to happen. In wrestling, it’s already prearranged. But the thing I didn’t know about wrestling is that you really get hurt. Because, you know, you’re wrestling in front of a live audience, and you end up doing things like jumps or slams, and 40 percent of the time you don’t land right.

I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.

People ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out of the question."

Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers.