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" I may be going out on a limb here, but I'm guessing Howard Finkel does not get a lot of chicks! "
Shawn Michaels
May
Get
Going
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" As a wrestling fan, I can remember years ago seeing my first Street Fight between Wahoo McDaniel and Tully Blanchard, and I remember thinking to myself that I will really think I've made it when I can come to the ring in jeans and cowboy boots with my hands taped and stuff like that. "
Shawn Michaels
Think
Myself
Thinking
" The Four Horsemen were limousines and Lear Jets, while DX was trailer parks and outhouses. One was white trash, one was upper crust. I always saw DX and the NWO as the natural rivals at the time. "
Shawn Michaels
Saw
Trash
Time
" When I returned to wrestling, I went back a changed man. I had adopted a new way of thinking. All I wanted was for God to help me be a good witness on the platform He had brought me back to. "
Shawn Michaels
Me
Thinking
Good
" 'WrestleMania' is pressure-filled anyway, and more so when you're going for the first time in what might be the main event. If you are being dubbed, or people seeing you as the next guy, those things mount up. "
Shawn Michaels
People
Seeing
Time
" If we're not a good steward of what God gives us, he takes it away. I think that's what happened. I wasn't a good steward of the gift that he gave me in this line of work. I abused it, so he took it away. "
Shawn Michaels
Me
Good
Gift
" I enjoyed the theatrics and the physical demands of everything that went on in the ring. But I was, initially, a relatively shy kid. I think that's probably what attracted me to hunting is that it was such a polar opposite of the other, and it was that opportunity for peace and quiet and to decompress. "
Shawn Michaels
Opportunity
Peace
Quiet
" I wasn't great at a lot of stuff, but I was good at not worrying about being a wrestler. "
Shawn Michaels
Worrying
Being
Good
" In all the years with WWE, I never really got to really establish the branding of The Showstopper as well as I would have liked to. "
Shawn Michaels
WWE
Well
Really
" No, I don't want to go back and wrestle again... But some big bubble could break, and I might need money like everybody else. "
Shawn Michaels
Back
Need
Money
" When I started, you didn't focus so much on production, certainly not - gosh - down to the finest little detail of how you shifted your eyes or how you turned to somebody. A lot of the shots were far away from a still camera. There weren't as many close-ups and intimacy. "
Shawn Michaels
Focus
You
Camera
" The only thing you have to have is patience and an attitude that you aren't ever going to give up. "
Shawn Michaels
You
Up
Patience
" I talked a bunch of crap for years and then went out and worked hard. That's the extent of it. There's no magical genius to it, as much as I'd like to think there is. I'm just a guy who works hard - and I hope guys are challenged by that. "
Shawn Michaels
Hope
Genius
Hard
" My life now is about my heart going pitter-patter for my children. "
Shawn Michaels
Life
Children
Now
" To WWE and to everyone who owns WWE, it's a business, and if you become something to the people, you're going to become something to the company. It's just that simple now. "
Shawn Michaels
Company
People
You
" I like learning new stuff, also, and I can sit there and watch shows on National Geographic and the Discovery Channel or stuff like that and learn something new. I think once you've gone through such a long stage of learning one thing, you're not as well-rounded as you'd like to be. "
Shawn Michaels
Think
Discovery
Learning
" In every aspect of my life, I live under the protection of and in accordance to the laws of this nation. At the end of the day, it's a wildlife biological fact and a conservation fact that the game must be managed. There's only so much habitat, i.e. food, out there. "
Shawn Michaels
Food
Life
My Life
" If I truly believe everything that's in that book, God is in control. He is in control. He's working for my good. Doesn't mean everything's going to be smooth, but that's all I needed to know. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. "
Shawn Michaels
God
End
Control
" That's what I love about my faith and Christianity. It's the polar opposite of darn near everything I experienced in the wrestling business. I still love the business, and I'm thankful for everything that it's provided, but the idea that it deals in the truth is the furthest thing from reality. "
Shawn Michaels
Truth
Love
Faith
" Whether it's NASCAR or whether it's football, or whether it's the NBA, any time something spills over to the point where somebody makes a WWE reference, I always think it's a good thing. "
Shawn Michaels
Think
Good
Always
" You see the standard hunting show; it's an outdoor television show. A lot of times, it's just a guy sitting in a tree, waiting on an animal. I don't think it does it justice, and I don't think it captures the enjoyment and the splendor of the incredible outdoors and the feeling of being out there. "
Shawn Michaels
Waiting
Justice
Think
" My faith is sort of where I got my confidence. And it was the confidence of, 'It's going to be what it's going to be.' "
Shawn Michaels
Going
Confidence
Faith
" I'm one of those people who would be OK with fading back into the background a little bit. "
Shawn Michaels
Back
Who
People
" I am to wrestling what Elvis was to rock n' roll! "
Shawn Michaels
Wrestling
Elvis
I Am
" Years ago, I was always serious, and now I chuckle and make jokes to create a calm environment because 'WrestleMania' can be a high-pressure atmosphere. "
Shawn Michaels
Serious
Environment
Calm
" Sometimes - and I don't mean it disrespectfully - the easiest people to work in the wrestling business are the people in the locker room. "
Shawn Michaels
Business
Work
Mean
" I don't consider myself a great multitasker, so I try to do one thing at a time, even though there were opportunities when I was wrestling. "
Shawn Michaels
Great
Time
Try
" You have to continue to hone your craft. "
Shawn Michaels
You
Continue
Craft
" I love wrestling, and I think there was something in me that needed to come out, and I was very fortunate to allow it to come out in the WWE and make a living doing that, and I enjoyed every second of that. "
Shawn Michaels
Out
Me
Love
" Regardless of what people think of the WWE, we're great at storylines; we're great at drawing money. We're great at causing controversy, and when the other sports do it, they usually do better. It keeps it interesting and makes it fun for the fans. "
Shawn Michaels
Great
Fun
Think
" The part inside the ropes, the part where people decide if it's a good match or a bad match, that's the part that I take very, very, very, very, very seriously and that I respect the most. "
Shawn Michaels
Bad
Seriously
Good