Top 45 Stone Cold Steve Austin Quotes

There’s no reason to go back in the ring and prove anything.

I don’t know if a pro wrestling career prepares you for Hollywood. When you get out there, and you’re in an arena for 20,000 people or 90,000 people, it’s a lot different than being on a quiet set with 100 people, so I think you get used to dealing with cameras.

Paul Heyman works with Brock. The magic works between Brock and Paul because of their dynamic and their chemistry.

I’m not addicted to wrestling anymore. For a long time, I was.

I think if I’d never had found pro wrestling, I’d be a blue collar guy, working a 9-to-5 job.

Once I came up with the ‘Stone Cold’ thing, it was like a snowball rolling down a hill; it just kept getting larger and larger, and I wasn’t afraid to push the envelope.

I respect Hulk Hogan because his career lasted some 30 odd years. I think I lasted about 15, but during my peak years, I took the business to a height it never seen before.

I would consider doing something along the lines of ‘Tough Enough’ because that was my first endeavor into reality television, and that is a world I know and love, and that’s why I was on that show.

When I see things through my eyes, I don’t want to ever just be really negative towards someone’s performance. There are many ways to skin a cat. Sometimes I watch the guys, and they’re doing different things than I would have done, but I don’t ever want to be too critical.

On ‘Redneck Island,’ a show I love, there was a lot of drama and storylines going on because someone’s always voted off the island through process of elimination.

I enjoy reality television.

In the ring, if someone hits you too hard, you can only take so many of those, and you have to send back a receipt, meaning ‘Hey, settle down.’ If a guy has a bad night at the office and catches you in the chin, you pop him so he knows what’s going on.

I really value my days down there in ECW in Philly.

When that glass broke and ‘Stone Cold’ was making an entrance, and that roof blew off that building, that sends you higher than life or anything that I know of. It’s an adrenaline rush you can’t explain.

I got out of the business when I got out. The hunger was out of my system.

When you wrestle for 15 years, you don’t want to go back to driving that forklift.

I think they’ve got to give Kevin Owens a run with the belt. He’s a veteran, and he’s really clicking on the mic, and the kid is super talented.

I don’t look to save the world with any of the movies that I make. I’m not trying to make any political statement with the movies I make. I’m trying to have a good time. I’m trying to entertain people.

It goes – for me – WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, Summerslam. The big three.

I’m glad about ‘The Curtain Call’ now, but I remember being very confused watching it all go down because I was right there behind the curtain watching it all, and I couldn’t believe these guys were breaking kayfabe.

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.

I had a lot more creative freedom back in the day.

John Cena has done well for himself.

I want to be careful when I’m breaking down matches because I don’t want to offend anybody or knock anybody’s work. It took me a long time to get where I was at, so I know how it feels when someone knocks on you.

That final match I had at WrestleMania with The Rock was my last match.

I wear decent shades, but if I lose them, I’ll go right to the store and get cheap ones because my eyes are that sensitive.

I’ll tell you what, the chemistry that I had with Bret ‘Hitman’ Hart in the ring, and the respect and the trust we had for each other, was unbelievable.

I am not a coward.

I’m pro-WWE, but also I maintain my independence and speak my true thoughts, never bashing the product. But yes, I can be critical. I’ve earned the right to be critical.

When you look back on anything in life, hindsight being 20/20, some things you’d like to have done a little differently.

Man, I had a good time working on ‘Grown Ups 2.’ First of all, when I read the script, it is hands-down the funniest script I’ve ever read. It’s laugh-out-loud funny.

I was a Ric Flair and Dusty Rhodes guy. Ric Flair continues to be my favorite wrestler of all time. I loved Harley Race and Nick Bockwinkel and all of those guys, but I’m a big Flair guy.

When Savage died, that was hard on me. I didn’t even hardly know Randy, but I just turned 51 this past December, and he was 58 when he died. I’m like, ‘Hey man, just because I’m in that line of work, do I have an expiration date? Am I supposed to go?’ I always wonder, but I don’t harbor it.

Say the average arena is 20,000 people. You’re in the very center of that arena, and you’re playing to the worst seat in the house up there. So everything is very big, very large. It’s like a very violent form of Broadway in a 20×20 ring.

I found out in pro wrestling that it works better if you just try and be yourself versus working on something you’re not, so I’m me, and maybe it’s magnified a bit, but it’s easier just being me.

My run cannot be touched. If you want to talk about longevity, you can speak the name Hogan. If you want to talk about white-hot, selling tickets, and taking the business to a height it’s never been – and, with a hell of a supporting cast, I might add – you’re talking about Stone Cold Steve Austin.

I love my fans, and I love my relationship with the fans, but when you’re a performer, and you’re used to being the mac daddy, the main cat, and all of a sudden you’re not that guy anymore, it’s kind of a whole different spectrum and a whole different level.

My favoirte wrestler is ‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair.

You cannot put Paul Heyman with Roman Reigns. People would know you’re putting Paul Heyman with him because there is a problem.

I don’t live as ‘Stone Cold.’ I live as Steve Austin. I was ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin back in 2003, then I rode off into the sunset.

We didn’t roll credits after ‘Monday Night Raw.’ You know, it didn’t say, ‘Stone Cold Steve Austin played by Steve Austin,’ so all of a sudden people think that’s who and what you are 24/7, you know, 365 days a year.

The thing about the ‘Broken Skull Challenge’ is that there’s really nothing else like it on television.

I didn’t do choreographed fighting for a living. I was a professional wrestler for 15 years; there’s a big difference.

You’re in there, you’re having a match, and you’re feeding off that crowd. That’s the gasoline that fuels the match, and that’s how you make your decisions. If you’re not listening to that crowd when you’re working, you’re missing the biggest part of what working is all about.

Driving a forklift is kind of like riding a bicycle. You’ve either got forklift skills or you don’t, and I can remove somebody’s molars with a forklift.