You know how much money I could have made playing professional football as a tight end? But I can't jump, and I can't run fast. That was my problem.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

When I got into professional wrestling, I started, and I starved for two years, and I finally got some breaks. And then I got the biggest break, and I made the most of it and took wresting to its highest level ever.

To have six years of professional football under my belt already is really something.

When I went out and did what I did in the world of professional wrestling as Stone Cold Steve Austin, pretty much anything and everything thing I said was ad lib, on the spot, just let it fly and go for it.

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.