The Undertaker

I've had several joint surgeries just to get floating bone chips and different things removed.

When I was on the road full-time, there was about an eight, nine year stretch where I averaged, conservatively, 250 days a year out on the road. That's basically you fly into a town, you get a Rent-A-Car, find a hotel, go to the gym, you eat, you go to the arena, go back to the hotel, you wake up, go to the airport and go somewhere else.

Jake 'The Snake' Roberts, man - brilliant mind.

I was living in my truck, bouncing in bars - a 20-year-old kid trying to break up all these red neck fights. But hey, I did what I had to do to survive.

Even when the business took a real nose-dive, you're thinking, 'OK, how are we gonna get out of this? What we gonna do? We can work harder.'

Back in the old days, you had to work. If you didn't work, you didn't get paid.

As long as I can compete with the 20-somethings out there... I have a burning passion to do what I do. Financially, I don't need to wrestle anymore. I do it because I enjoy it.

I always felt like, if I started feeling stale, my audience is probably feeling it before me.

I've never put a lot into being a celebrity, that just flies over my head because that's not really who I am. But as you can imagine, you get exposed to a lot of different things because of what you do and I lived a pretty excessive lifestyle.

At the end of the day, whatever you're doing in the ring, you want it to look real, and genuine, and authentic.

In the past I led such a mysterious life. I didn't give interviews.

If you see me out on the street, you would see me in jeans and cut-off shirt riding a motorcycle.

I evaluate myself at the end of every year.

Roman Reigns never asked me for my help, that's not who he is.

Everybody's calling, they want to backflip off this and into that. Once you do that a couple of times, it's like, 'OK, what do you got now?' Well, now I gotta do two flips into that, then two and a half. When they get used to that, what do you do?

When I started out, I was a basketball player at Texas Wesleyan University.

For me, I didn't have anyone in the wrestling world... trying to get my foot in the door was virtually impossible.

You know, obviously I've been around for a while, so I've got a little sweat and blood equity built up.

We use wrestling moves to tell a story but it boils down to the character and being able to bring either love or hate out of your crowd.

I never, like, once I got to the WWE and then, I kind of started to realize that we have something special with that character, I was never satisfied. I was like, 'we're here and we're getting a great reaction, but what's next?'

I'm always looking down the road. Like, 'okay, I need something. I've got to bring something new to the table, but I have to stay true to what my fanbase and my audience, what they've accepted and this is what they want.'

I hate, and I hate using that word, that's twice, but people that will do the old take the camera out and do the sneak pic. Like, the guys that are afraid to come up to you, so they'll like try to video you.

I think I'm a little tougher than I am smart.

I learned really late. I started leasing a tour bus, which I wish I had done a lot sooner.

Sometimes you have to set the angle within the match, but you gotta give a reason for one guy to be loved and one guy to be hated.