I don't want to say that my yelling was the reason — there were a lot of factors at play. Coming back to Oklahoma, focusing and learning about my health, and recovering was a lot more important than being on Monday Night Raw.
Now that I've had my intestines removed and re-attached, am getting treated for sleep apnea, quit smoking, and am going to the gym 4-5 times per week, I'm going to live longer. That's a helluva lot more important than some juicy story about Vince and me not getting along. I still communicate with Vince, he still communicates with me. We have great respect for each other. We share a lot of the same values regarding the product, and we disagree on some.
I think it's pretty damn cool that at 62, I'm healthy enough and motivated enough to reinvent myself and try new things. It'd be easy to retire and play golf and go fishing, but I can't turn that motor off. I like staying busy, and I really like being involved in new entities. I don't need the money. I really have fun doing everything that I'm doing right now.
Switching gears, let's say you had to design an ideal wrestler from scratch. For both a face and a heel, he would have the mic skills of ________, the physique of ________, and the ring skills of _________.
For the face, I'd do Austin on the mic, body of Ricky Steamboat — you want someone that's big enough to be believable, but small enough to be vulnerable — and the ring skills of Shawn Michaels.
How do you feel about Stephanie and Triple H as prospective leaders when the baton eventually — and who knows when that will be — gets passed?
I think they're going to be great leaders because they have an inherent love and understanding of the genre. I don't think anyone can lead WWE without understanding the two key components of talent and television. This is a different field than being the president of the New England Patriots, for example. Bob Kraft is smart enough to leave the football operations to Bill Belichick and company, and he's also smart enough as a businessman to hire really good people to manage the other aspects of the business.
I think that Triple H and Stephanie will have good instincts on which people to surround themselves with. More importantly, I think they'll have thorough understanding of the core business as far as to assemble a team of wrestlers, prepare them, manage them, and produce compelling television.
This is not like a job for them — it's not like going to a headhunter and hiring an executive. This is their life, and I'll take my chances any day with somebody who has that kind of passion in managing a company.
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