I buy companies I want to own. I buy companies that make a lot of money, that don't have a lot of debt, and that I can understand.
— John Layfield
I told myself after my football career was over that if I ever started making good money again, I would invest it wisely.
I grew up a huge wrestling fan. My grandfather, who was a minister and retired when I was a young kid in Sweetwater, Texas, lived right near us. He was a big wrestling fan.
I played a little pro football, didn't make much money.
Shawn Michaels I just think the world of. I would love the opportunity to be in a meaningful match with him.
I just don't think our best are in politics. I think these guys are inept.
Ron Simmons had a lot to do with Rock's success.
I'm a kid from a small town in West Texas, and I've gotten to travel the world. I got to live all over the world.
When I first retired, I had short-term memory loss, and I started reading about neuroplasticity in the brain, about how the brain can regenerate itself, and I don't know if it can or not.
Guys do dives because they don't know how to work. Guys do flips because they don't know how to work.
You want to get something changed, you send sport. Look what happened when Pee Wee Reese puts his arm around Jackie Robinson. That did more for racial relations in the United States through sport.
I've spent 7 Christmases in Iraq and Afghanistan with WWE.
When people look at Bermuda, they see the beautiful beaches, the golf courses, the fishing, and that's what they should see. That's Bermuda. What they don't see is the almost predominant black-on-black violence that is unfortunately pervasive throughout the local neighborhoods.
I've always been a news junkie.
It's been a part of my entire life: I've wanted to be a wrestler since I was a little kid. I don't think that ever leaves you.
When I got hurt - I broke my back in a match in London, England - I had to retire and became just a commentator.
The biggest rivalries I've had were with Eddie Guerrero and The Undertaker. I had long, long feuds with both of these men, and both were groomsmen at my wedding.
When I was a kid, I always dreamed about climbing mountains. I read every book about it. I formulated this plan to accomplish it.
My dad was a banker, and I've always had an interest in it.
I went to work on Wall Street for about three or four years with an investment bank, got certified: series 3, series 7, and all this stuff.
I really enjoyed working with Michael Cole. I think he's a great play-by-play guy.
My back's not great, and I can't wrestle a full schedule.
I think people really liked Bill Clinton. They'd like to see him get elected, but Hillary's just a different animal.
I got the honor of traveling some with Kerry Von Erich. He was as close to a rock star as I've ever seen. He had a presence that when he walked into a room, it was like Elvis walking into the room.
I do a mind game every day. I play chess, sudoku. I learn something different: a language, a few words of a different language.
I enjoyed the Bradshaw character - the beer-drinking character from Texas. It was just fun.
'Stone Cold' came in with a monster push as 'The Ringmaster' with Ted DiBiase. That didn't work out.
We have a mass incarceration among minorities that is disproportionate to our population. It's a travesty what's going on with our mass incarceration specifically of minorities.
Look what we did with Cuba. You isolate a country, and all you do is impoverish that country.
I started up this program here in Bermuda, working with what society deems under-privileged kids, at-risk kids.
The JBL character, I had had in mind for a long time, a character very similar.
You can't be critical of Dana White.
I grew up a big fan of the J. R. Ewing character of the 'Dallas' TV show, and I grew up around people who were very similar to J. R.: they had come into a ton of money. And they loved to flaunt it and loved to drive fancy cars and wear the big cowboy hats and nice suits.
Rugby is just a ball. I would be much more versed to coach American football, but you need 22 players and all of the equipment. With rugby, all you need is some green grass, a ball, and a bunch of kids who want to run into each other really hard, which they enjoy.
Texas was a hotbed for professional wrestling when I was growing up.
If we lose Saudi Arabia because of sanctions or by avoiding them, they're going to China; they're going to Russia.
In West Texas, where I grew up, I had a wind farm planned. I'd gotten the turbines bought and the land acquired, and then the renewable energy credit imploded, and it killed the margins, so the deal never worked, but the investment bank I was working with asked me and said, 'We really like what you did. Would you come to work for us?'
Triple H and I have wrestled many, many times, but never on a real meaningful stage. I would really enjoy that.
I didn't have a ton of success as Justin Hawk Bradshaw, but it wasn't a failure, either.
I retired because I had to, not because I wanted to. The temptation to get back in the ring is very much there.
I've been to over 70 different countries, all seven continents. It's been just a wonderful ride, and all that is because of professional wrestling 100%.
I should be a poster child for CTE.
Do you want to talk about matches that matter? Randy Orton can go out there, John Cena can go out there, AJ Styles can go out there and put together matches that matter and not have to do silly dives because they don't know how to work.
I'm happy about the fact that I got to do what I wanted to do since I was a kid. The fact that I got to live the dream that I wanted to live.
You look at something like Russia, or you look at something like China, where you actually allow free markets to go in. And you haven't seen the change that we, in the western world, would probably like. You still have a bit of a dictatorship - some people would say more than a bit of a dictatorship - in Russia and in China.
I tore my biceps and had two hernia surgeries.
I had some physical problems with my back that caused me just some really bad problems.
I always wanted to try Mt. Everest since I was a kid. I never thought I would be able to do anything like that.
When I broke my leg in college my first year, they were worried that I wouldn't walk straight again. In fact, I'm pretty pigeon-toed, and most people think I don't walk straight anyway.
I'm doing cardio five days a week and will do anywhere from 30 minutes up to an hour each session, but never under 30 minutes.
