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" 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. "

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I Am

Vacation

" You can't push the envelope at 10,000 RPM and expect to come out smelling like a rose and feeling like a million bucks on the other side. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

You

Expect

Rose

" I'm pro-WWE, but also I maintain my independence and speak my true thoughts, never bashing the product. But yes, I can be critical. I've earned the right to be critical. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Thoughts

True

Independence

" 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

" If it's the morning, and I had a late night, the worst thing in the world is a bright light. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Light

Late

Morning

" I found out in pro wrestling that it works better if you just try and be yourself versus working on something you're not, so I'm me, and maybe it's magnified a bit, but it's easier just being me. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

You

Better

Be Yourself

" 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. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Memories

Business

" Any time you go live with Vince McMahon it's going to be a very interesting experience. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Time

Live

Interesting

" 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

Look

" John Cena has done well for himself. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Well

Done

Himself

" I like pure pro-wrestling, when it's serious in its orientation and presentation - like it's a legit sport with Jim Ross calling the action. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Pure

Jim

Action

" 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

" Man, I had a good time working on 'Grown Ups 2.' First of all, when I read the script, it is hands-down the funniest script I've ever read. It's laugh-out-loud funny. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Time

First

Man

" It's like I tell everybody, if you get a chance to win the Royal Rumble or the King of the Ring back when they had it, that means you're gonna get a push. You getting an opportunity at something big, and it can really set up your future for you. So if you're that guy, boy, it's pressure. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Chance

Win

Opportunity

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

Stone Cold Steve Austin

You

Stone

" Everyone can have a rough day at the office, as they say. I've had those myself many times when the bell rings. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

They Say

Say

Office

" When you look back on anything in life, hindsight being 20/20, some things you'd like to have done a little differently. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Done

Look

Back

" The Rock is one of the biggest movie stars in the world. So give the guy his due. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

World

Stars

Rock

" Everything I've done goes back to pro wrestling. Had I not been able to achieve what I did, I guarantee you... my high school jobs were always working in the highway department - driving dump trucks, patching up roads, digging ditches, driving a forklift. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Roads

Driving

High School

" I think 'The Condemned' has a great story. It's a lot more than a mindless action flick. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Action

Think

" When I went out and did what I did in the world of professional wrestling as Stone Cold Steve Austin, pretty much anything and everything thing I said was ad lib, on the spot, just let it fly and go for it. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Fly

Professional

World

" Probably the greatest match in my career, and really put me on the match as a main event guy and paved the way for what I was to become, was Wrestlemania 13, with the one and only, Bret 'The Hitman' Hart. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Become

Greatest

" 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

" 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

" There's no reason to go back in the ring and prove anything. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Prove

Ring

" Earl Hebner should definitely be in the WWE Hall of Fame. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Fame

Hall

Definitely

" 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. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Attitude

Doing

World

" Don't look forward to me putting on the trunks and knee braces to get back in the ring and stomp a mudhole in somebody and walking it dry. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Ring

Back

Forward

" I'm for same-sex marriage. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Marriage

Same-Sex

Same-Sex Marriage

" Everyone out here in Los Angeles is trying to do whatever to break into films. It is a tough industry to get into, kind of like pro wrestling in a lot of respects when you think about it. "

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Tough

Think

You