"I got the speech five years ago which was a pretty bad speech. I got called into a Talent Relations office and got told that I will never main event a WrestleMania again, I will never main event a pay-per-view again, and I'll only be used to get over NXT talent. That was said to my face. There's your fucing inspiration, now go work hurt. Vince didn't say that to me, it wasn't him. But nothing gets said to you without... you know, you know where it comes from. So it hurt a little bit, I was like, 'Really? That's where we're at". Because they had to think about the future. And then I got into shape and had the abs. I made the joke to Vince, 'When I used to chainsmoke two packs of cigarettes a day and drank Jack Daniel's like water and weighed 500 pounds, I was a fucing world champion. I got abs and I can't get a fuc*ing match (laughs)."