Stone Cold Steve Austin: The Bottom Line on the Most Popular Superstar of All Time

"Steve Austin: [about Owen Hart botching a piledriver] As soon as my head hit that mat, I was thinking Christopher Reeve. Cause I knew I was never gonna walk again, ever. I couldn't feel anything from my neck down. Jim Ross: It was very scary. It was essential basic human error. Steve Austin: Man, I'm laying there, and now pain's starting to set in, and my interior delts are burning like fire. There was no way I was gonna lay there and let some ambulance or bunch of paramedics carry me out of that ring. I hit him with the roll-up; it looks like shit. One, two, three; I'm the champion. I grab the belt, and I held it up in the air, and when I looked back at that footage, and I look in my eyes, if you look at my eyes, the lights are on there, but there ain't nobody home. I'm... pretty fucked up, and I'm really hurt. But I did it. I remember going to the back, I sat down on a bench, and I was in a world of hurt. And I was confused and I was... didn't know what was gonna happen to me. When you come that close to almost being paralyzed for the rest of your life, it really fucks your head up. Vince McMahon: That incident really, really bugged him, on so many different levels."

"Mick Foley: I can't tell you the first time I actually met Steve, but I can tell you the first time I saw Steve. Gentleman Chris Adams was having the first day of his wrestling school. At least that class, most of the prospects looked absolutely terrible, as most wrestling prospects do. And I couldn't tell you if anyone actually made it, with the exception of this one big, blond, muscular kid. Even though he didn't know any wrestling, he had that "it" factor. And clearly, with the right training, he was going to be somebody. Turns out, he was."