I Spent A Lot Of Years Trying

The Two Sports Are As Different As Ping-pong And Rugby. In Boxing, You Don’t Know What’s Going To Happen. In Wrestling, It’s Already Prearranged. But The Thing I Didn’t Know About Wrestling Is That You Really Get Hurt. Because, You Know, You’re Wrestling In Front Of A Live Audience, And You End Up Doing Things Like Jumps Or Slams, And 40 Percent Of The Time You Don’t Land Right.

It Was Either Therapy Or Die.

Change For Me Was Really Hard Because I Had Built Myself Up To Be A Certain Kind Of Man My Whole Life, As Men Are Where I Come From. I Thought I Got To Handle Things Different That's Gonna Make Me Feel Like A Real Pussy. For Me It Was Hard To Turn The Other Cheek. Even Though It's A Stronger Choice. It Was Very Hard To Make The Change, But I Had To In Order To Survive. Otherwise They Would Have Won.

I Tried To Change My Name For The Fights, But The Only Way They Could Pay Me Money Was If I Used My Own Name. I Wanted To Change My Name To, Like, Romeo Something-or-other, And They Said, "no, We Can't Do That. We've Got To Use Mickey Rourke." Because They Paid Me A Lot Of Money To Go Over To Europe And Asia To Fight.

All That Prosthetic Makeup Drains You. By The Time It's Lunch, You're Done.