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" When you see me on TV as Stone Cold Steve Austin, that's definitely a part of my personality. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

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" They made a three-hour 'Raw,' but two hours is about my time limit. I ain't got that kind of attention span. "

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" Say the average arena is 20,000 people. You're in the very center of that arena, and you're playing to the worst seat in the house up there. So everything is very big, very large. It's like a very violent form of Broadway in a 20x20 ring. "

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" You're in there, you're having a match, and you're feeding off that crowd. That's the gasoline that fuels the match, and that's how you make your decisions. If you're not listening to that crowd when you're working, you're missing the biggest part of what working is all about. "

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" 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. "

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