Quotes from The Undertaker

Life isn't that sweet. That's why everyone wants sweet things.

Jake 'The Snake' Roberts, man - brilliant mind.

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 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.

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 am and have been the reaper of wayward souls for a long time.

If you see me out on the street, you would see me in jeans and cut-off shirt riding a motorcycle.

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.

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.

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.

In the past I led such a mysterious life. I didn't give interviews.

The old-school Undertaker is my legacy. It's probably what I'm going to be remembered for.

I always felt like, if I started feeling stale, my audience is probably feeling it before me.

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.'

Back in the old days, you had to work. If you didn't work, you didn't get paid.

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.

My biggest fear is becoming a parody of myself. That's something I struggle with.

I evaluate myself at the end of every year.

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.

The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all!