The best time in wrestling was with the nWo and the Monday Night War between WCW and WWE.
I loved WWF as a kid.
McMahon 3:16 says 'I just pissed my pants!'
I've probably done 1,000 interviews about the 'Monday Night Wars' and how 'Nitro' was made.
When I went out and did what I did in the world of professional wrestling as Stone Cold Steve Austin, pretty much anything and everything thing I said was ad lib, on the spot, just let it fly and go for it.
I love Stone Cold. It's a weird obsession, and he should probably get a restraining order.
Nobody, especially Vince McMahon, tells Stone Cold Steve Austin what to do, and that's the bottom line!
I'll tell you right now, man, if WWE was to call me and say, 'Hey, Book, we want you to do a match with 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin,' I'd do it!
Mike Tyson was probably - positively or negatively - the most recognizable face on the planet: the 'baddest man on the planet.' And you had our new resident baddest man on the planet, Stone Cold Steve Austin, whom fans were just gravitating to in a way they'd never done before, walking out and flipping off Mike Tyson.
When you see me on TV as Stone Cold Steve Austin, that's definitely a part of my personality.
I'd read Stone Cold's biography about how he lived on, like, raw potatoes, and I thought, this is all part of it. This is what wrestlers do, and this is what I'm going to do.
I go back to the old school days of that Attitude Era stuff. Everybody knows when I speak of the Attitude Era, my favorite stuff is of the mid-'80s, all that NWA stuff, the World Class stuff, the stuff that Bill Watts was doing.
The Attitude Era was something special.
The Attitude Era had the crazy rock & roll girls and stuff.
You know what I liked about 'The Condemned?' It's Stone Cold being Stone Cold, and that's what was awesome to me.
A guy that I was supposed to face - and I think that he was just plain downright scared to get in the ring with me because he was one of those guys that was on top and saw a huge threat in Brock Lesnar at the time - that's 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin.
That used to be what I grew up on - which is the Attitude Era, because you never knew what was going to happen next.
I am the Rock's greatest fan.
I used to imitate Stone Cold Steve Austin. Identical. I literally made my own waistcoat like Stone Cold, put a little '3:16' I cut out of newspapers for it.
