The Undertaker
I've always been fascinated with death and darkness, and I still am.Collection: Death
Wrestling and sports entertainment is not about the moves, it really isn't. It's about being able to evoke emotion in one facet or another.Collection: Sports
Just taking a piece of dirt and envisioning the building you'd like to put on it - it's an amazing process.Collection: Amazing
Your transgressions will be punished. Dr. DisRespect, you will rest in peace.Collection: Peace
Regardless of anything, I'm gonna write my own story and my own ending.
Everything is happening for a reason, it's preparing you for bigger things.
You have to want it and put the work in to be great.
I am and have been the reaper of wayward souls for a long time.
Roman Reigns never asked me for my help, that's not who he is.
My biggest fear is becoming a parody of myself. That's something I struggle with.
At the end of the day, whatever you're doing in the ring, you want it to look real, and genuine, and authentic.
The old-school Undertaker is my legacy. It's probably what I'm going to be remembered for.
You know, obviously I've been around for a while, so I've got a little sweat and blood equity built up.
You either have to make people love you or you have to make them hate you, it doesn't really matter either way. If you can't bring that emotion out of your audience then you're not going to have them for long.
I never, like, once I got to the WWE and then, I kind of started to realize that we have something special with that character, I was never satisfied. I was like, 'we're here and we're getting a great reaction, but what's next?'
I've never put a lot into being a celebrity, that just flies over my head because that's not really who I am. But as you can imagine, you get exposed to a lot of different things because of what you do and I lived a pretty excessive lifestyle.
I'm always looking down the road. Like, 'okay, I need something. I've got to bring something new to the table, but I have to stay true to what my fanbase and my audience, what they've accepted and this is what they want.'
I hate, and I hate using that word, that's twice, but people that will do the old take the camera out and do the sneak pic. Like, the guys that are afraid to come up to you, so they'll like try to video you.
I've had both my eye sockets crushed, I've been set on fire, uh, that was not fun, I've torn a pec, torn biceps.
Everybody's calling, they want to backflip off this and into that. Once you do that a couple of times, it's like, 'OK, what do you got now?' Well, now I gotta do two flips into that, then two and a half. When they get used to that, what do you do?
If you see me out on the street, you would see me in jeans and cut-off shirt riding a motorcycle.
For years there, I sort of lived the character.
I believe in God, but I wasn't living my life for God.
WWE is my domain, my yard.
Back in the old days, you had to work. If you didn't work, you didn't get paid.
I evaluate myself at the end of every year.
I think I'm a little tougher than I am smart.
When I was on the road full-time, there was about an eight, nine year stretch where I averaged, conservatively, 250 days a year out on the road. That's basically you fly into a town, you get a Rent-A-Car, find a hotel, go to the gym, you eat, you go to the arena, go back to the hotel, you wake up, go to the airport and go somewhere else.
In the past I led such a mysterious life. I didn't give interviews.
Jake 'The Snake' Roberts, man - brilliant mind.
I always felt like, if I started feeling stale, my audience is probably feeling it before me.
When I started out, I was a basketball player at Texas Wesleyan University.
Kane, my gosh, Kane is just incredibly strong.
I've had several joint surgeries just to get floating bone chips and different things removed.
I've been concussed I don't know how many times, yeah it's taken a pretty good toll on the body.
I never tried to put myself in situations where I had to be anything other than what people saw on TV.
With the abuse, and wear and tear the body takes in this career, it's ridiculous to put in that time and effort and have nothing to show for it.
I always told guys you don't date people you work with, it's not going to work. I said it for years and then I broke my own motto.
As long as I can compete with the 20-somethings out there... I have a burning passion to do what I do. Financially, I don't need to wrestle anymore. I do it because I enjoy it.
Sometimes you have to set the angle within the match, but you gotta give a reason for one guy to be loved and one guy to be hated.
Even when the business took a real nose-dive, you're thinking, 'OK, how are we gonna get out of this? What we gonna do? We can work harder.'
My wildest dreams and the goals that I set for myself, I never imagined the success that I've been blessed with, and believe me, I feel blessed.
For me, I didn't have anyone in the wrestling world... trying to get my foot in the door was virtually impossible.
I was living in my truck, bouncing in bars - a 20-year-old kid trying to break up all these red neck fights. But hey, I did what I had to do to survive.
We use wrestling moves to tell a story but it boils down to the character and being able to bring either love or hate out of your crowd.
Both hips have had a form of hip replacement.
I learned really late. I started leasing a tour bus, which I wish I had done a lot sooner.
You can not kill that which is already dead.Collection: Can Not
If the eyes are the windows to the soul, you're not going to like the view.Collection: Eye
The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all!Collection: Greatest Fear