#Animal i have become wwe how to
I didn't even know how to skate I taught myself how to skate so I could coach hockey. Dad was the coach Dad was at the parent-teacher meetings Dad was helping out coaching football and baseball and hockey. And when I came home, Animal went on the shelf and Dad was there. Sometimes you get crazy on the road with "Nature Boy" you know what I mean? But my family was always first and foremost. She was both mom and dad while I was gone on the road and she kept our marriage together.
I had the best friend in the world in my wife, who was an unbelievable trooper through it all – ups and downs.
Let me tell you something: This is a very evil business, and I by no means was an angel. I think it's some of the stuff that a true wrestling fan or someone who isn't even a wrestling fan would want to read about the ins and outs of the wrestling business : Who decides who wins and loses what kayfabe means in our business or what it's like going over to Japan where there's definitely a language barrier. I don't get really graphic in any of my stories. Some of the stories in there are definitely appropriate for all ages. It's a chronological time line of our career. My thought process was: This is a book about two guys just like in any sport or any kind of entertainment business that seemingly went it there at the bottom and made it to the top – and stayed at the top for a long time. But I think even if you're not a wrestling fan, at some time or another, whether you were walking by a magazine rack or it was on television somewhere – whether it was USA Network or TBS or Spike or whatever – you've seen Hawk and I somewhere. Of course, the main audience is sports fans and wrestling fans.