Thanks to Dr. Keith Lipinski:
Page 3-4 (on writing this book)
What do people want to know about me? And why do they want to know? I don't pretend to be a deep thinker. I don't talk that much. When I do, I say what I honestly feel, and I say it plainly, in just a few words. That's rare today, maybe - enough to have gotten me in trouble at different times - but that's not a reason to write a book.
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Page 19-20 (on his favorite wrestler with a HUGE picture of the WARLORD in his phantom of the opera style gear)
I watched a bit of pro wrestling as a kid. I think my favorite wrestler was The Warlord. Sometimes I get teased about that. Most people don't know who the Warlord was. If you ask them who their favorite was when they were a kid, they'll always say Hulk Hogan or Macho Man, Ric Flair or maybe Dusty Rhodes.
I say the Warlord and people say, "Who?"
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Page 62 (after a story about puking at the Power Plant and Sergeant Buddy Lee Parker)
I wonder how much talent he chase out of there. The goddamn WCW went under not too much longer after that. Maybe there's a connection.
(later)
Hey, Sarge, if you're reading this-I think about you every day, you f' piece of sh*t.
Yeah. You're a f' piece of sh*t.
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Page 84 (on OVW)
I think on a lot of interviews since I've become famous, just because of the questions I've been asked, I've focused in on a lot of the negatives of Ohio, what I didn't learn, what I failed to figure out. I never really got to speak about what I did learn. So let me take the time now to focus on a few other things I did pick up there, and that I am grateful for having been taught.
One thing that I always loved about Jim Cornette is the fact he's a huge buff on the history of wrestling. He would make us study. We read Lou Thesz's book, Hooker: An Authentic Wrestler's adventures inside the bizarre world of professional wrestling, to get a feel for the industry, especially as it was during the eighties and erly nineties. He gave us another book whose title I don't recall, but which had a lot of information on older wrestlers, guys who passed away. And we watched shoot interviews with Cowboy Bill Watts. Watts was an old-school wrestler and wrestling promoter who had a tremendous store of information and stories about wrestling.
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Pages 141-142 (on Bubba)
BUBBA DUDLEY IS AN ASSHOLE
The match continued for a while, and it was just a nightmare. When it ended, they haulded Randy out in an ambulance. I followed in a car. Even Bubba Dudley got hurt, injuring his back.
Or so he claimed.
See, the thing that really, really drives me crzy about that night was that Bubba Dudley bitched out Randy while he was being put into the ambulance. Bubba started yelling at Randy, claiming that because of landing on Randy's foot, he had hurt his back.
Excuse me?
Because Bubba broke Randy's foot by landing on it and crushing it, Bubba's back hurt and it was Randy's fault.
Yeah, that's it. Randy's in the ambulance with a broken foot and Bubba's screaming and yelling at him.
And you know, usually if somebody gets injured in your match, or even if it's ajust a guy you work with, at some point you try to give him a call to check on him and see how he's doing. You want to show a little bit of concern. He's a coworker, and whether you were responsible or not, it's just a polite thing to do. The right thing to do. Show you care.
Needless to say, Bubba never gave me or Randy a call just to see how we were doing. Nothing.
In my opinion, Bubba Dudley is a jerk-off. He's one of those people who used to always bully guys and throw his weight around just because he had a good position in the company. He'd been around for a long time and he was one of those veterans who'd always treated the rookies like sh*t. He treated me like sh*t. He treated Randy like sh*t. To this day, I can't forgive him.
I don't have a whole lot of bad things to say about people, but Bubba Dudley will always be a piece of sh*t in my book.
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Page 113 (on Chris Benoit)
It's difficult to mention Chris now without thinking of the horrible events in June 2007, when the police say he killed his wife and son and then committed suicide. I don't know what demons were possessing him. The Chris I know wouldn't have done that.
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Page 203 (on the Undertaker calling him out for saying Smackdown wasn't as good as Raw)
"If you have something to say, or you want to light some fire under out asses, you go to the guy and tell him. Directly," said Undertaker. "That's what being a leader is. Bring this sh*t up in the locker room. Don't go to the goddamn press and put it out there. We got all these guys who are very talented and working their asses off and who think you're dogging them, for no reason. You're just setting yourself up to be a target."
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Page 206 (on his series with JBL)
You would think, two big guys like us, the matches ought to be great. But for some reason we didn't have very god chemistry. We were like oil and water. We struggled, and I could never quite figure out why. I almost think that sometimes you get a much better match when you have a mismatch between the wrestler: you know, a bigger guy and a smaller guy. Or contradicting wrestling styles.
I have more of a brawling style and so does JBL, so maybe that was the reason we didn't quite click. We tried, but it just didn't take off.
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Page 215 (the night before Eddie's passing)
Eddie called me that night, pretty late. I think it was about two in the morning. I was already sleeping, so he left a message.
At that time, I was champion. The plan was to pass the title back to Randy. But I wanted them to put it on Eddie. I'd told him earlier that I was going to Vince to ask him to do that.
Well, Eddie called me and left a message saying that he really appreciated what I was going to do, but that it was the wrong decision. Randy should be champ, not him.
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Page 225 (on Mark Henry injuring him in 2006)
I felt he was compeletly reckless. We try to give our best in all our matches, but he took me out for a long time. He took a lot of money out of my pocket, a lot of money away from my family. And the injury took a lot of money, I believe, out of the company. I still to this day can't figure out what he was thinking.
Mark's got a good heart, and like I said, he didn't intentionally hurt me. But it was still careless.
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Page 249
King Booker had become champion while I was gone, and I think in his opinion I didn't give him the professional courtesy or respect that any veteran wrestler, let alone the champion, desceves. Which was true. I showed up at the photo shoot and I pretty much said hello to everybody except him.
I had a personal problem with Booker, which was why I was rude. People have pushed me to talk about the person aspects, but I don't care to go into it. We move ahead. And the point is, no matter how I felt, I should have at least been respectful and said hello, not acted as if he didn't excist. He's e earned respect in this business. I didn't show it, and I was wrong.
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Page 263
My wife thought I was sleeping with Melina right off the bat, while we were still married. It wasn't true, but it did make me feel guilty about being friends with her.
Since then, as I've said, Melina and I have gotten closer and our relationship has become physical. That's caused a bit of controversy, but I don't give a sh*t. She's my friend, and I love her very much
