If WCW and Eric Bischoff hadn't brought in the cruiserweights, I don't think the company would have ever gotten to where it was.

All the competitors knew the importance of Halloween Havoc. It was the WCW equivalent to SummerSlam.

Without Dusty Rhodes, there is no Diamond Dallas Page. He took me under his wing and believed in me when nobody did - nobody.

Wrestling and horror just sort of go together.

I always saw myself working a WrestleMania.

The run that I had - which really was, like, four months in the WWE - it wasn't great. But my opening day was great. My opening day was humongous. And then WrestleMania was pretty much my closing card. I did one 'Raw' after that, but that WrestleMania 18 match that I had with Christian, that was a hell of a match.

I started wrestling when I was 35, but my career didn't take off until I was 40.

When my career took off like a rocket in '97 - me against the nWo and Randy Savage - I wasn't just a top guy, I was the top guy, and then in '98, I blew my back out.

I'm all about owning your life.

When you look at me in the beginning of '96 and at the end of '96, I'm two different people.

I didn't develop DDP YOGA for yogis. DDP YOGA is its own animal; if yoga was a bicycle, DDP YOGA would be a Harley.

That diamond cutter sign became my moniker.

From wrestling, I learned what I'm not going to do again.

I let the WWE control my destiny, and it didn't work out so well.

I'm not going to have anyone tell me what I can do promoting my product.

Originally, when I was introduced to yoga, I kept resisting. I kept saying that I wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga.

When I blew my back out at age 42, I said, 'Okay, I've got to be more concerned about food and health.'

Bottom line is don't ever be afraid to fail.

I live by the business model that there is a better than, a less than, or a different than. Those are the three categories. I chose to be different than. The one that's different than will stand out with the proper work ethic.

When I came into WWE after Monday Night Wars, it wasn't my greatest time in the business... but they kept bringing me back.

God has blessed me on a lot of levels. Have I worked for it? Absolutely. But it still takes that blessing.

How could I not be the underdog, starting at 35 and a half and going from a manager and a fourth-string color commentator to being a wrestler?

I was sort of like a scout for Eric Bischoff if I saw people who had the talent. Sometimes I wouldn't bring people to him until they had the gimmick, like Raven.

I don't think there is anybody, including Jeff Hardy, who puts their body through as much abuse as A. J. Styles.

People don't understand that, when I was at WCW, if I wasn't wrestling that night, I was down at the Power Plant teaching. I was teaching people how to do stuff, but every time you teach someone, you learn more. The more you learn, the more you teach. The more you teach, the better you get.

One of my biggest supporters is Gerry Briscoe.

No one iced their body in professional wrestling before me. I did it because I was 35, 36, 37. I was already what would have been considered an old timer.

I stretched my whole career - it didn't save me when I blew my back, and of course, that's where the whole things of DDP Yoga comes from.

I would have always liked to have worked with Randy Orton because of the Diamond Cutter and the RKO.

I knew no one had better ring psychology than Jake Roberts.

As great as Hulk Hogan was, he still wasn't that great a worker.

Wrestling is cyclical. And if you look at the '80s, it had an unbelievable run, and then it just fell down. '90s had the biggest run ever because of the Monday Night Wars.

Some of my biggest victories have come directly after some of my biggest failures.

Vince McMahon made me a much better businessman, and I'm super thankful to him.

My business wouldn't be doing as strong as it is without the support of WWE.

DDP Yoga was never developed for yoga users: it was developed for people who wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga - the people who really need it.

Yoga is 'so hum,' spiritual and all that, and I get it, and I respect that, but that's not what I do. What I do with DDP Yoga, we have changed the face of how it's represented. The spiritual stuff for us is about the power of positivity along with giving people that inner confidence.

The biggest thing I've learned, on the inside of my Hall of Fame ring, normally people put their name. I've put 'Work ethic equals results! DDP.'

My first match with Bill Goldberg, it was for the World Title in 1998. Bill had only been wrestling a year. Well, we stole the show. Because I was going to make Bill look as good as he was, and he was great. He had that incredible charisma, personality, and that 'it' factor. Rousey has that same thing.

Rock has the ability to make you feel like you're the only person in the room.

People don't understand, and I do, is what happens after wrestling. What do you do when people stop chanting your name? For me, I already had that with the nightclub business before wrestling and now with DDP YOGA.

I can bend over and put my head between my legs, stick my foot over my head, and stand one leg.

I used to say Page Joseph Falkinburg - which is my given name - when Page Joseph Falkinburg stopped trying to be this over-the-top professional wrestler, Diamond Dallas Page, and Diamond Dallas Page became Page Joseph Falkinburg, that's when my career took off.

I'm that guy. The guy that you think I am, I am. Not everybody can say that.

I'm a big fan of Denzel Washington, and when I met him, he was just cool. And I was glad.

You can meet me - and I won't disappoint. That's how I am.

I was reading at a third-grade level until the age of 30 before I made the decision that I was going to learn how to read.

I don't need to prove anything in that ring anymore. I've done all that.

Kevin Dunn is great at what he does.

I don't think I'll ever be out of wrestling, because I was that kid at 8 years old that dreamed of being a world champion.