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" Our line of work is very cynical, and a lot of it is driven by cynicism, cruelty, and meanness. It's easier to believe the negative stuff than the positive stuff. The feel-good stories don't usually spend a lot of time on the front pages. "

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" 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

" Being a good husband and father... that's the most important thing I'm going to do on this earth. "

" The life of a WWE superstar is awesome, but I want my kids to have a life balanced by more traditional ideas about what our life and our country used to be. And still can be if we want it to be. "

" There are faith-based movies that some people don't consider good, but every time it comes to the scene where someone's life is changed, that still affects me. "

" 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. "

" I am to wrestling what Elvis was to rock n' roll! "

" There's no one of us that's perfect; there's no one of us that can't do just a little better. "

" My life now is about my heart going pitter-patter for my children. "

" Even though I wrestled Ric Flair very early on in my career, it was a short match, so getting to wrestle him later on in my career was a benchmark. Wrestling Hulk Hogan was a benchmark for me. "

" 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. "

" For me, being in retirement, it was just having the opportunity to watch other stuff and do different things. "

Shawn Michaels

Just

Watch

" You have to continue to hone your craft. "

" Being called 'The Heartbreak Kid', 'Mr. Wrestlemania,' and all those other names doesn't even begin to compare to what it feels like to know that the Almighty God who created the universe calls me His child. "

Shawn Michaels

Universe

Child

" 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

Thinking

Good

" I live in a constant state of gratitude, thankfulness, and appreciation for the second chance I was given, so anytime in any film, when that is given to someone, I always appreciate it. "

" 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. "

" The only thing you have to have is patience and an attitude that you aren't ever going to give up. "

Shawn Michaels

You

Patience

" I've always wanted to be a rebel. I've never wanted to do what everybody else is doing. Man, I've got news for you, that is what I am really doing now, and it's the coolest thing ever. I got to know the person of Christ. I see him as one of the greatest rebels of all time. That's what really appeals to me. It's hope. It's victory. "

Shawn Michaels

I Am

Man

" 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. "

" I may be going out on a limb here, but I'm guessing Howard Finkel does not get a lot of chicks! "

" If you have 100 acres worth of food, and you've got 500 animals out there, the young ones and the old ones are going to starve to death because they can't compete. When they starve, they start to eat things they shouldn't be eating and spread disease not only to them but to us. "

" Sometimes - and I don't mean it disrespectfully - the easiest people to work in the wrestling business are the people in the locker room. "

" As long as I did the good things associated with religion, I thought I was in good shape spiritually, too. "

" I'm the 'Showstoppa', the Main Event, the icon! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'll go out there and give you a show like you've never seen. Why... Because I can! "

Shawn Michaels

Never

I Can

" 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. "

" We can bring it all down to the subtleties of the shifting of an eye because we know the camera will catch it. That has been a great thing to learn, and it makes it interesting for a guy who has been in it as long as I have. "

" 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. "