Quotes from Bill Goldberg

Most of the wrestling happens in the South, so I had to ask myself how I was going to be received as a Jewish boy named Goldberg. Then again, I have never, nor would I ever, hide my Jewish identity.

There's no question, I guarantee you, that you will see more NFL players getting into wrestling. They have the personality for it.

I always wanted to become a good role model for kids as a professional football player. Unfortunately, I didn't attain that through football, but I was smart enough to realize that professional wrestling provided another opportunity for that.

If it took professional wrestling for people to recognize me as a person, then all the other endeavors I embark upon will explain me as a person, define me as a person, but wrestling will not define me.

The reality is that a lot of these bad things that happen in the wrestling business, 90 percent are because of certain people's egos. There's no question about that.

Any time someone stops me in the street and asks me for an autograph, pro wrestling gave me that.

All those guys wanna be us. All the fighters wanna be in professional wrestling; I don't care what they say.

If I put wrestling boots and wrestling trunks on one last time - and I'm going to - it's going to be done by me and me only.

I strive to be my best every time I go out, and that's very stressful. After a while of doing that... it's nice to just take a deep breath, sit on a tractor.

I believe in the simple things in life; everything derives from the beginning. You take things very simplistically and try to be the best person you can be.

Oh, I love Rock to death, man. He doesn't inspire me as an actor but, I mean, come on.

My experience with video games is a far cry from 'WWE 2K17.' Did I ever aspire to be that character? Man, I just wanted to be a hero to kids. Whether it's a character in a video game, a movie or a TV series, it's an accolade that I'm greatly appreciative of.

Anything I did with the WWE was not therapeutic by any stretch of the imagination. The reality is that nobody's going to tell you that, because they have an umbilical cord hooked to Vince McMahon. I, ladies and gentlemen, do not.

As a father and an ex-wrestler, it's a dream come true. To be able to come back and be included in 'WWE 2K17,' it's a huge honor.

It's just a really cool deal to be a character in 'WWE 2K17.' Whether it's competing on Nitro or Halloween Havoc, to have me as an available character... it's a tribute.

I worked in a gym. I was a trainer. I did all the crappy ex-football-player jobs.

From what I've read, CM Punk is like a sponge when it comes to training.

Any time you're in front of a camera and have them yell 'Cut, re-shoot the scene,' are you kidding me? That's a huge advantage.

At the end of the day, you have smart marks all over the world thinking that they know the outcome of a match.

I think when Kevin Nash put himself on the booking committee and then gave me my first loss, that was beginning of the end.

There's only one reason I would do the kickboxing thing, and that's for myself. I've been doing it as an avid student on-and-off for 10 years, and it's something I really enjoy.

I believe that it was a testament to the change of power from the company to the fans because the more the fans ate it up, the more the company gave them what they want.

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.

Kids are soft these days, period, end of the story in every respect. People coddle them too much. I'm sick of that; it's irresponsible parenting. Taking care of them is one thing, but turning little boys into little girls because you're coddling them so much, kids need to have experiences on their own.