If it's dead, I'll eat it. If it's alive, I'll eat it, too. Jus put it in front of me and get out of the way.
— Mark Henry
I don't want to be the second-strongest man in the United States or the second-strongest man in the world. They don't get much attention. I definitely want to be No. 1.
Wrestling went from being sometimes comical to very serious, and there was a lot of depth regarding the vastness in which people performed.
What I want to be is James Bond.
I had to decide whether I should try to play pro football after high school or try to pursue my powerlifting career.
A lot of athletes are stuck on themselves and don't want to socialize and that kind of thing. When I see that, I hate it.
I guess I'm a romantic. Call me rough and romantic. Girls like that.
I hate drugs. I drank a beer once and threw up.
The more you shine, the more positively people start looking at you.
I wasn't always 6' 4'' and 400 pounds.
I'm a Christian, and I forgive people. That's the mature thing to do.
When my mother bought me my first concrete weight set when I was 10, I was hooked. I was doing stuff with the weights that a kid shouldn't have been doing.
Oh, man. I think if anybody deserves to be inducted into the Hall of Pain, it's Donald Trump.
Damien Sandow, he's a good entertainer. He keeps your attention.
I want to go out in dramatic fashion. Win, lose, or draw, I want to have a retirement match, and a lot of guys have done it.
Your political views should be your political views. I believe in business being non-partisan.
I challenge anybody to go through their career and not have a failure as a talent.
Small? Nah, I never want to be small. Big people usually push small people around. Why would I want to be small?
My brother and I loved to body-slam each other when we were kids. We tore up a lot of furniture.
The Rock moved in with me at my apartment, and we trained together after that.
I will be the most marketable of anybody to come through weightlifting ever. With my personality and my size, I mean, I can make people buy things, try what I say.
I'm not fat. There's a difference between being big and being fat.
I usually eat whatever I want... about 5,000 to 7,000 calories a day.
If you have a great woman, you don't need family and friends.
It may be the swansong of my wrestling career, but definitely not the end of Mark Henry!
I was an unusually big kid for my age and did not know how to express myself after being targeted as the odd one out. I thus landed myself in trouble for reacting aggressively. But with time, I succeeded as an athlete and people started respecting me.
I have a good sense of humor. I'm not Martin Lawrence by any means. I'm a little too country to be Chris Rock. But I fancy myself as being somebody with a good sense of humor.
I may be one of the very few people on earth that have won a championship in everything they've ever done.
When I do retire, you won't see me in the ring, but I will be working in the back with the young guys.
Me and Sheamus have a natural chemistry.
I like to play around a lot. I would always flirt with the girls in the office and everybody just hanging around, sweet talk.
Back in the old days, guys used to wreck hotel rooms and trash rental cars and all that dumb stuff. When I came into wrestling, they were like, 'We're out of cars. You're one of those wrestlers. No, we're not renting a car to you.' It was like that. We had to re-create, re-establish the trust.
I understand marketing. I understand licensing. I understand the business side of our business. That comes from paying attention and wanting to do better, not just as an in-ring performer but as someone who loves the industry.
The Attitude Era was something special.
There's a lot to being a weightlifter. People think it's all brute strength. But it takes strength, quickness, flexibility, and technique. And it can cause a lot of stress.
I'm blessed to be able to say that at every juncture in my career, I succeeded.
I was the first WWE developmental talent. When I moved to Connecticut to start training, I had no idea what wrestling was other than what I saw as a fan.
When somebody says I can't do something, it motivates me to do it.
The only thing better than winning a gold medal is going to Heaven.
I've always been a big guy. I weighed 220 pounds in the 5th grade.
I didn't know my own strength. I wasn't a bully or anything, but I'd be out playing and end up hurting someone. So I had to sit out or play with older kids.
Indian wrestlers definitely have a place in the industry.
John Cena has granted more wishes than anybody in history. He goes the extra mile.
Oh, I was a big Tony Atlas fan. I think I tried to throw my first dropkick because of Tony - and almost broke my shoulder.
I was called everything ugly and black in the world. Man, those where some tough times. They called me Fat Albert, Magilla Gorilla, black ape. It all hurt.
I believe in freedom of speech. I believe people have the right to say whatever they want to say. As long as they're ready to own what they say. Because there's a price to pay when you say something that's against the grain that is not correct.
I'm kind of glib.
Daniel Bryan is one of my favorite wrestlers - as a talent, as an entertainer, the way our fans love and revere him. There's never been a match he and I have been in where it was bad.
I like structure, and I like discipline and people doing the right thing.
If you're going to lose to somebody, losing to a guy like Brock Lesnar is not something that people will laugh at. Brock is arguably one of the top ten fighters on Earth.
