“You have to believe you’re great. You have to have an air about you. My success wasn’t because I was a great talent, but because I wanted it more than anybody else. Every minute I step on that field, I want to prove I’m the best player in the league.”

You’re never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they’re in front of you.

With each game I play, with each season I play, I’m running out of chances. You’re never guaranteed next year. You’re never guaranteed the next game. You have to seize the opportunity when it’s there in front of you.

I consider adversity being good sometimes you know.

I’ve always been a Packer, always will be a Packer.

Most talented players don’t always succeed. Some don’t even make the team. It’s more what’s inside.

It’s been a wonderful career, I couldn’t ask for anything more.

It’s been six years since I have had a drink and I have two girls, and my priorities are a lot different now and I just can’t believe I was that guy. And I would not go back, I would not trade the way I am now for anything.

You know, I’ve had my ups and downs.

It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.

I know I can still play, but it’s like I told my wife, I’m just tired mentally. I’m just tired.

I know it’s not a one man team win or lose.

I don’t need to have a retirement, retire your jersey, all that stuff to solidify my career.

If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.

Dusty Rhodes and Sapphire. They’re a lovely twosome, or threesome, or foursome, or twenty-fifthsome.

I once asked him what came at the end of the sentence… and he said “parole”.

Confidence is only born out of one thing ­ demonstrated ability. It is not born of anything else. You cannot dream up confidence. You cannot fabricate it. You cannot wish it. You have to accomplish it.

The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis.

The fact that it was entirely possible for someone to be all three simultaneously is why good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport – like BASE jumping or crocodile wrestling.

Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.

I had never imagined myself doing [wrestling]. Once I came to the realization that it was a possibility, I just tried to concentrate on what I thought people would enjoy.

…good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport – like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.