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" With all the... success that I've been lucky enough to get? That doesn't happen unless the home life is solid. "

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" I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I'd do everything to get through those cracks - scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it's as big as a garage. "

" When I was ten, I won the horseshoe-throwing contest at summer camp. I was also the Wiffle ball champion in my town. "

" Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training. "

" When I was a kid at four years old, that's when I started amateur wrestling with my dad and family. And when that's instilled in you, it never goes away. "

" I knew credibility would come only in time and through earnest performances. "

" Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining. "

" Come on, you can't name a truck after a chick. "

" The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and I thought, 'That can be me.' So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn't realize back then that I was having a defining moment. "

" When I say I'm going to take care of a woman, I don't just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I'm going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I'm going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today. "

" For 'Hercules,' I went for the demigod look: big and mean. When you're playing a character like the son of Zeus, you only get one shot. "

" I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents. "

" I'm a passionate, hardcore fisherman. Biggest fish I caught? A 200-pound tarpon. "

" In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time. "

" If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that. "

" I don't have a need for speed. I'm not that guy. "

" I played with two lines of action figures when I was a kid: G.I. Joe and Star Wars. "

" Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights. "

" In the '60s and '70s and early '80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something - they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling. "

" I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar. "

" My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school. "

" I have good friends who are politicians on both sides. "

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" My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she'd seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country - all around the world - who show that type of fortitude. "

" Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything. "

" I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting your own personality into it. "

" If I want to be called 'The Rock,' I'll be called 'The Rock.' If I want to go back to wrestling, I'll go back to wrestling. "

" I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it. "