I don't want to wrestle past 35. There's just too much physical strain with 250-pound men slamming into each other.

It's been a wonderful, wonderful career. It's been just a great run that the Lord gave me and I damn sure appreciate it and thank Him for it and for Him giving me the body and the ability to do what I have done for years.

I have had about 15 operations due to the wrestling profession, and I have a problem with an abdominal hernia.

I'm not gonna squeal out that this is my 23rd retirement, my real, real retirement. But you know there comes a time where you need to look to go in another direction in life, and I have entered that time.

I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.

That's the thing with football: you have some good games, you have some bad games but the main thing is that you go back, you recap and next week you're ready to fight again. That's the main thing.

If we are encouraging kids to go into academies, then presumably we are selling them the dream that they can play first-team football.

It wasn't like I ever said, 'I want to be an actor.' I was in the right place at the right time. I went to a local drama group because I found football on the weekends too cold - which is highly ironic because I've had some of the coldest experiences of my life filming 'Game of Thrones.'