The stupidest question I get is 'Is Goldberg your real name?' I tell people, 'No, my real name is Killer, but I wanted a much more menacing name, so I picked Goldberg.'

I picked up a lot watching Ultimate Fighting. I studied martial arts. But I had an idea to be different, to portray a character people would like.

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

I was a piece of meat. I was betrayed by the business of football.

The muscles in my lower abdomen had torn off my pelvis.

In high school, all my friends' older brothers had these cars. I had a number of friends whose brothers collected Dodges and Plymouths and some of the coolest cars I've ever seen when I was a kid. I was just flabbergasted.

My brothers were big car guys.

My dream was to have a garage where I could put some of the coolest cars I've ever seen throughout my life.

I told my wife, when I go up to the garage and I wash my Cobra, I feel like I'm cheating on her.

If I'm the MVP of the NFL, and I lose a game and go to a press conference and walk out of it, that's not the example I want to set for people.

If a guy is hurt, you take care of him. The Falcons didn't do that.

The NFL can go to hell.

Sometimes I think back to everything I've been through, and I wonder, 'Man, how the hell did I get here?'

I'd love to get back in the ring so my son could see me, but that's it.

Would it be an honor to be bestowed Hall of Fame credentials? Yeah. Does it define me as a person? No.

I'm not picking up my phone and calling anyone for employment.

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

It's a sad situation when you have to talk crap about other organizations that you know your paths are never going to cross competitively.

I try to do as much as I can for the military.

I'm a man who makes his own decisions and sticks with them; I think there's a lot of integrity in that.

I host reality shows; the last thing I ever wanted to do was be a contestant on one.

I come from a very athletic family. But I didn't have the typical Jewish sports heroes. I mean, like lots of Jewish kids I admired Sandy Koufax. But I didn't look up to him as the one person who gave me the desire to push on and succeed. My brothers did that for me.

I have never, ever, received any taunts or any form of anti-Semitism. And I suppose being a Jewish football player with the Atlanta Falcons was no different than being a Baptist football player with the Atlanta Falcons. But in the back of your mind, you always expect something to happen.

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.