Mick Foley
If you're in my shoes, and your goal is to leave people with the biggest possible smile on their face, then doing the meet-and-greet afterwards makes sense.Collection: Smile
Even though 'SmackDown' has been kind of like the Internet darling, I believe that if they had three hours instead of two, they would find out that it's tough to be a darling when you've got that massive three-hour anchor around your neck.
I love, for example, 'Full Frontal with Sam Bee.' I just love her show.
There was a time when Vader and I had a main event Pay-Per-View match, back in 1993 at Halloween Havoc, and I firmly thought that it was going to be the biggest match of my career and that everything after would just be going downhill.
I think doing The Improv is a little more ominous than doing a college campus because it was so different than anything I'd done.
Everything's relative. I don't think any new pursuit will be as difficult as trying to break into wrestling 25 years ago.
One thing I was proud of when I did the college talks was that, although stories revolved around experiences that I had in wrestling, one did not need to be a wrestling fan to enjoy them.
I really enjoy Sarah Silverman's fearlessness.
I can still remember the first time I heard Tori Amos. It was the fall of 1993, and I was in the back of a colossal '79 Lincoln Coupe Mark V, embarking on some otherwise forgettable road trip somewhere in the Deep South.
I always had an appreciation for diverse musical styles.
As a halfway decent college DJ, I had been exposed to some great progressive stuff and always took pride in unearthing musical gems.
The first few songs of the album 'Little Earthquakes' were unlike anything I'd ever heard.
The truth is, pro wrestling is such an incredibly vast, incredibly surreal world. There's no telling how many words could be written about the subject - especially when the subject involves WWE.
It might surprise people to know that the person who convinced me to write the third memoir - 'The Hardcore Diaries' - was actually Vince McMahon.
For me, announcing wasn't the ideal working condition.
I'd like to see Dolph Ziggler get involved in a really intense, personal feud that will bring out another side of his personality. Because the personality is there, and the wrestling is there, so I'd like someone to come along and bring out his ugly side.
I don't have much choice but to be a WWE fan in my house.
Political parties could learn a lot from pro wrestling, as we have our passionate base, too, but we don't necessarily gear our show around them.
A lot of my loyalty is to the wrestlers - the guys who put their heart and health on the line.
In 1999, I had my back against the wall, and WWE had a ghostwriter working on an autobiography for me. He was halfway through, and it was awful, just boring. I took over as a way of trying to fix things, as I thought I could probably do a better job.
My mother wanted me to be a writer, which I have ended up taking a long road round to.
I wanted to be a baseball player, but I became fascinated with wrestling as a teenager.
When people see my show, they may not laugh out loud as they do with some of the classic comedians, but they do enjoy it. I regret that I called it comedy to begin with; I should have called it 'An Evening With' or put it down as spoken word. But the emphasis is always on funny stories.
I was given a chance to try announcing, and it was a job that, in the end, I did not care for very much.
I always felt like the wrestling business was better off with two viable mainstream promotions.
Probably better than anybody, I realized that I could have easily been one of those guys who was not seen as being a WWE-type guy.
I think what limited my role when I was WWE commissioner in 2000 was my reluctance to get back in the ring every now and then.
I'm still a big wrestling fan. I buy the Pay-Per-Views. I think that gives me the right to speak out just like any other fan.
Bray Wyatt is one of the most captivating characters to come down the pike in ages.
I really enjoy watching the younger talent like The Shield rise up on the card and make a huge impact.
In a sense, I think the WWE Universe has become one of the greatest characters of the modern era.
I leave my editor to put the periods and commas in.
I am a roller-coaster addict.
There is nothing like the indignity of not fitting into a roller coaster.
I remember being really hurt by a relative of a good friend of mine when I mentioned that someone was a great wrestler - she said, 'What do you mean? How can you be great at wrestling?' I stopped them and said, 'Do you think that what I do takes no talent whatsoever?' She realized how hurtful those words were.
The fans still want to see me, sweat pants and all.
At heart, I was always a performer, not a competitor.
My goal in wrestling was always to take people on a journey to get a reaction and make people feel like they had seen something special. Thankfully, I get reminded of that every day.
You can't satisfy everybody. If you do, you're probably doing something wrong.
You want the match to be like a roller coaster, so you can't predict it.
I look back on my career and my time as commissioner with great fondness.
There are guys who thrive completely on the action in the ring and see the promotion as a necessary evil, whereas I think it's so much easier to tell people what a tough guy you are, as opposed to backing it up.
Mother Nature and Father Time have not been happy with me.
Sooner or later, The Rock's going to get tired of that empty space on his mantle where an Oscar should be, and that's when I'll get the phone call for the buddy movie that finally makes his career.
I always welcome being part of something positive in WWE.
My greatest personal Survivor Series moment was facing The Rock in 1998 and having Mr. McMahon turn on me. That set into motion one of the best series of matches I've ever had and some of the most important with The Rock. Not only did we have great matches, but then we became teamed up following the rivalry, so that was big.
Triple H was one of the main proponents of women's wrestling.
President-elect Trump wasn't my choice, but I'm going to be like Dave Chappelle, and I'm going to give him a chance - but I think there are people out there with legitimate worries.
I see The Rock running in 2020 and being a two-term president. I think he would be great, and I'm joking when I say I think Stephanie McMahon wouldn't be a fine president of the United States. I think she's got the leadership qualities. I see those two as potential candidates, and I see Kane as a congressional leader.
I just feel like there's a better mind-to-pen connection for me than a mind-to-keyboard connection.