Big Show Quotes

When I got the name 'The Franchise,' the gimmick, and turned it into what it became, I put my heart and soul into that.

Shane Douglas's work in the first 11 months as The Franchise of ECW was so groundbreaking. He made people forget about his on-air persona in WCW and successfully reinvented himself as The Franchise in ECW.

Pretty much my entire life has been played out in front of wrestling fans, even the stuff - I guess you could say the legend and lore - which has grown.

My very favorite wrestler of all time was Andre the Giant. He was sort of like my best friend, believe it or not, and I have a picture in 'People' magazine of me sitting on his lap when I was 8 years old after 'WrestleMania I.'

I love Vince McMahon. He came up with the Kurt Angle character. He ran with it, and then I was able to run with it. I thank him for the opportunity he gave me. Vince McMahon was one of my best friends, period.

Chris Jericho was always someone I looked up to. I was a WWE fan growing up, and I remember his debut.

I'll tell you upfront, I think Shawn Michaels was probably the most gifted worker the business has ever seen.

'Stone Cold' came in with a monster push as 'The Ringmaster' with Ted DiBiase. That didn't work out.

Bill Goldberg can't wrestle.

WWE is my home, and I will always stay with the WWE in some part, whether it's an ambassador, or maybe one day you'll see Nikki Bella as a GM, and no one can touch me.

My dad is to professional wrestling what Babe Ruth was to baseball - he's an icon. Working with him and having him around as I try to get this new character over with the fans has been a major help.

I've always dreamt of somewhere down the line getting one match out of Hogan, just because that was always a dream.

Once I saw Roddy Piper I knew exactly what I was going to be doing when I grew up.

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!

Before Dad passed, we talked so much about the Goldust character, what it grew into, and how much he was proud of it.

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

The reason I wanted to be a WWE Superstar was because of The Rock. I used to watch him in The Attitude Era. There was no one more electrifying and no one more must-see than The Rock.

In all the years with WWE, I never really got to really establish the branding of The Showstopper as well as I would have liked to.

The future of AEW is Maxwell J. Friedman, without a shadow of a doubt. I am going to be the face of this company. At the tender age of 23... people think I'm great now? They don't know the half of it. I mean, my career's only just begun.

I would say I'm more fascinated by Big Daddy V than I am necessarily a huge fan of Big Daddy V. He simply threw on the double-strapped unitard... and now he's some sort of fearsome, fighting, wrecking machine.

I'm the man that made wrestling famous.

The biggest thing about being a wrestler and being Goldberg gave me, was the ability to be a superhero for kids. I want the ability to be that guy again.

My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.

Undertaker, for almost as long as many of us have been watching WWE, he's been part of it.

CM Punk clearly established during his time as a Paul Heyman Guy that he was, as the billing suggested, The Best In The World.