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I drink a lot of beer.
I am pretty transparent how I do things.
I never liked D-X since they invaded WCW.
I consider myself an authority on drinking beer.
You're going to have haters no matter what you do.
Mr. McMahon the character is a very effective heel.
Shakespeare is still Shakespeare because story rules.
I don't reflect back too much on moments in my career.
A lot of respect for Ric Flair; he's just a great guy.
Tony Schiavone - I have always liked and respected Tony.
Social media is an evolving media. It changes every day.
Florida was a hotbed of professional wrestling, one of the hottest in the country.
You could cure every disease known to man, and still, someone's going to hate you.
I'd like to manage someone, a young talent that maybe doesn't have the mic skills.
The fact that we are watching a live 'Monday Night Raw' every week is due to 'Nitro.'
I had zero exposure to creative in WCW up until 1993, 1994. Even then, I was at a distance.
I've probably done 1,000 interviews about the 'Monday Night Wars' and how 'Nitro' was made.
Clearly there's value in Twitter and Facebook; otherwise, none of us would be involved in it.
You can't just run through a cookie cutter press and crank out a wrestler that looks like Bill Goldberg.
One of the advantages and disadvantages of WCW had to deal with was being a member of Turner Broadcasting.
There's a way of getting heat that works for you, and there's a way of getting heat that works against you.
Diamond Dallas Page didn't have that larger-than-life persona, but he had a different connection with the audience.
To many generations of fans, Hulk Hogan really represents the beginning of what became this amazing industry that we have.
I have a lot of respect for the folks over at WWE, and I have a ton of respect for what they've accomplished within the industry.
Booker T, Diamond Dallas Page, myself, and even Bill Goldberg, for crying out loud, main-eventing Wrestlemania. That is WCW's legacy.
The television business, by virtue of what's happened to streaming, it's really turned the traditional television business upside down.
I couldn't pass a senior high school math test right now, but I could probably teach intellectual property and trademark law at Harvard.
You know that Vince Russo... when Russo and I agreed to work together, one of his big ideas was that he wanted Lance Storm to be my son.
WCW had its moment, and that's what it was: it was a moment. And we created some great stories and changed the industry to a large degree.
Let me just say this, Dolce Maria Garcia Rivas: You are not 'sexy,' you are not a 'star,' and you are certainly not a professional wrestler.
When I ran WCW, I obviously had a lot of control over the business, but when I was in TNA, I had no control over anything other than creative.
Take the main event of WrestleMania and put it in front of 75 people, and it will dramatically affect the way everyone watching feels about it.
When WCW first really began to enjoy the success that we enjoyed, it was because of the story lines that we were putting out in front of people.
I've always believed that the audience and the energy that the audience creates is sometimes just as important as the action inside of the ring.
Professional wrestling, the WWE, and being in the Hall of Fame represent such a large part of Hulk's life, as does his connection to the audience.
One of the reasons The Bullet Club is what it is, while it may be kind of a wink and a nod to the nWo, it's also young, fresh guys of a new generation.
WWE had years to develop and train their staff. WWE makes sure the production team got exactly what Vince McMahon was looking for and how he wanted it.
People are finally figuring it out that, at the end of the day, that WCW created some of the best talent in the history of the world. It was a great run.
AOL-Time Warner didn't want a WCW property on their platforms - being TNT or TBS or anything else - in any way, shape, or form, and that was the death nail.
When you hang on a little too long, you disappoint your fans, and deep, deep down inside, you're disappointing yourself, and that's the part that hurts you the most.
Turner Broadcasting went from a very entrepreneurial, risk-taking company where I had a tremendous amount of freedom and autonomy to a corporate, bureaucratic nightmare.
We formatted our shows so that, at nine o'clock, we were in the heat of hard-hitting, fast-paced cruiserweight action, and it was so different from the WWE that it worked.
Here are the facts: when Eric Bischoff came to work for WCW as a 'clean up batter' on the announce team working alongside Tony Schiavone, I came with a guaranteed contract.
DDP was the common guy, the everyman, a blue-collar guy from New Jersey. He represented something that the average person could believe in, in a way that was a little unique.
Bumps often require giving yourself completely to the talent you're in the ring with, and that's what makes wrestling such a performance art that is different from every other.
If you go back in time and look at a map of all of the television markets where wrestling was most popular, historically, the deepest concentrations of those markets were in the northeast.
Bret Hart, you don't really understand the business of the Pro Wrestling business. You only understand the Bret Hart business of the Pro Wrestling business, and they are two different things.
When I came out for the 25th anniversary of Raw, I got a great reaction, and it made me feel very good, but as amazing a moment as that was, I know, after two months, fans would want to move on.
I didn't mind when Paul Wight came to me and said WWE offered him $1 million a year for ten years. I was like, 'Dude, you need to take that. You need to go now. Lemme give you a ride to the airport.'
I think most people, most rational people, most people that I would feel comfortable sitting in a room with, understand that wrestling is scripted entertainment. But they don't want you to remind them of that.