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" I respect Hulk Hogan because his career lasted some 30 odd years. I think I lasted about 15, but during my peak years, I took the business to a height it never seen before. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Business
Career
Think
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" I got out of the business when I got out. The hunger was out of my system. "
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" I go back to the old school days of that Attitude Era stuff. Everybody knows when I speak of the Attitude Era, my favorite stuff is of the mid-'80s, all that NWA stuff, the World Class stuff, the stuff that Bill Watts was doing. "
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Attitude
Doing
World
" Once I came up with the 'Stone Cold' thing, it was like a snowball rolling down a hill; it just kept getting larger and larger, and I wasn't afraid to push the envelope. "
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" I have so many great memories of the wrestling business. I've worked real hard to get to the top, and how many flukes and breaks to have happened that had allowed me to have the success that I did. "
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Me
Business
" If it's the morning, and I had a late night, the worst thing in the world is a bright light. "
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Light
Late
Morning
" The thing about the 'Broken Skull Challenge' is that there's really nothing else like it on television. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Nothing
Broken
Challenge
" I'll tell you what, the chemistry that I had with Bret 'Hitman' Hart in the ring, and the respect and the trust we had for each other, was unbelievable. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Respect
You
Chemistry
" It goes - for me - WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, Summerslam. The big three. "
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Three
Goes
Big
" My favoirte wrestler is 'Nature Boy' Ric Flair. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Boy
Flair
Wrestler
" I love the business of pro wrestling, and it is something I know better than anything else I know about. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Business
Better
Wrestling
" When I see things through my eyes, I don't want to ever just be really negative towards someone's performance. There are many ways to skin a cat. Sometimes I watch the guys, and they're doing different things than I would have done, but I don't ever want to be too critical. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Negative
Performance
Doing
" I didn't do choreographed fighting for a living. I was a professional wrestler for 15 years; there's a big difference. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Professional
Living
Fighting
" I am not a coward. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Am
Coward
I Am
" Wrestling is a very serious subject for me. "
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Wrestling
Me
Very
" I've got a chance to host a show called 'Redneck Island' on CMT. I love doing that show. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Redneck
Love
Chance
" 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. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Run
End
Football
" I've been in the entertainment industry - wresting, but the entertainment industry since 1989; if you have thin skin, you're going to have a tough time in this town, but I've got thick skin. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
You
Tough
Time
" 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. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Professional
Two
Wrestling
" People go into that arena, and they know the fix is in. They know what pro wrestling or sports entertainment is. That being said, they want it executed to the highest level so that they can suspend their disbelief and buy in, and so, in a world of make believe, you make people believe in you. It's as real as it can be. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Know
World
Sports
" In 'The Condemned,' if you saw the movie, that's all me; I'll go toe to toe with anyone in an action movie. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Movie
Go
Me
" On 'Redneck Island,' a show I love, there was a lot of drama and storylines going on because someone's always voted off the island through process of elimination. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Redneck
Love
Island
" With the Monday Night Wars, it was almost a pay-per-view every single Monday between the two factions because they were trying to throw everything but the kitchen sink to win the ratings war. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Trying
Win
War
" A lot of people say, 'What set the Attitude Era up?' or, 'What started the Attitude Era?' To me - and I was allegedly the leader of it - sports entertainment, pro wrestling, whatever you want to call it has always had an attitude. So, why that particular generation got labeled, I don't know. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
People
Attitude
Leader
" WWE dropped the ball with 'Tough Enough.' "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Tough
WWE
Ball
" I want to be careful when I'm breaking down matches because I don't want to offend anybody or knock anybody's work. It took me a long time to get where I was at, so I know how it feels when someone knocks on you. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Time
Me
Long
" I made a good living being a tough guy on TV, but I'd rather laugh and joke all day long than try to be a tough guy. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Long
Tough
Living
" I'm really proud of 'Broken Skull Challenge.' "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Proud
Broken
Skull
" When Savage died, that was hard on me. I didn't even hardly know Randy, but I just turned 51 this past December, and he was 58 when he died. I'm like, 'Hey man, just because I'm in that line of work, do I have an expiration date? Am I supposed to go?' I always wonder, but I don't harbor it. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Know
Wonder
Past
" I wear decent shades, but if I lose them, I'll go right to the store and get cheap ones because my eyes are that sensitive. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Lose
Eyes
Cheap
" In the wrestling world, you had WWE, WCW, and smaller promotions that were like the independents. I look at it as craft beer being the independent beer makers. It's the indie scene. "
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Beer
Craft
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