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Diamond Dallas Page admits wrestling is pre‑determined, yet he values the physical and psychological intensity of a match. He started his career in his mid‑thirties and only found success after age forty, noting the sport’s cyclical rise and fall. He also remembers the importance of events like Halloween Havoc and the impact of Dusty Rhodes.

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I let the WWE control my destiny, and it didn't work out so well.

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Wrestling and horror just sort of go together.

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I always saw myself working a WrestleMania.

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I knew no one had better ring psychology than Jake Roberts.

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As great as Hulk Hogan was, he still wasn't that great a worker.

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Through wrestling, my second home was Fort Myers, Florida.

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Wrestling is realer than reality TV.

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From wrestling, I learned what I'm not going to do again.

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Without Dusty Rhodes, there is no Diamond Dallas Page. He took me under his wing and believed in me when nobody did…

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If WCW and Eric Bischoff hadn't brought in the cruiserweights, I don't think the company would have ever gotten to where it…

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All the competitors knew the importance of Halloween Havoc. It was the WCW equivalent to SummerSlam.

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I don't think there is anybody, including Jeff Hardy, who puts their body through as much abuse as A. J. Styles.

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I would have always liked to have worked with Randy Orton because of the Diamond Cutter and the RKO.

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I don't want to spoil this for anybody but wrestling, sports entertainment, is 'pre-determined.'

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How could I not be the underdog, starting at 35 and a half and going from a manager and a fourth-string color…

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One of my favorite things to do when I wasn't competing was to watch the cruiserweights.

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When you become a wrestler at 35 and your career takes off at 40, nobody believes in you. But there are some…

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The nWo pursued me for a while. To be perfectly honest, I think WCW management purposely kept me off 'Nitro' for a…

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When my career took off like a rocket in '97 - me against the nWo and Randy Savage - I wasn't just…

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Wrestling is cyclical. And if you look at the '80s, it had an unbelievable run, and then it just fell down. '90s…

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I challenge anyone to find a better match than me and Goldberg at Havoc '98. There are few matches that were as…

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The elaborate sets and the theme of Halloween Havoc as a whole is what I think really caught the attention of the…

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One thing 'The Very Best of WCW 'Monday Nitro'' really captures, which I remember very well about WCW, was how absolutely electric…

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When Dusty Rhodes passed away, that hit me hard because I couldn't call him any more. He couldn't bust my chops. He…

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People don't understand that, when I was at WCW, if I wasn't wrestling that night, I was down at the Power Plant…

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My first match with Bill Goldberg, it was for the World Title in 1998. Bill had only been wrestling a year. Well,…

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The run that I had - which really was, like, four months in the WWE - it wasn't great. But my opening…

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My business wouldn't be doing as strong as it is without the support of WWE.

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I don't think I'll ever be out of wrestling, because I was that kid at 8 years old that dreamed of being…

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Wrestling is the first reality show. With a reality show, you never what is real and what is not.

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Vince McMahon made me a much better businessman, and I'm super thankful to him.

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I started wrestling when I was 35, but my career didn't take off until I was 40.

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When I came into WWE after Monday Night Wars, it wasn't my greatest time in the business... but they kept bringing me…

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People don't understand, and I do, is what happens after wrestling. What do you do when people stop chanting your name? For…

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I was sort of like a scout for Eric Bischoff if I saw people who had the talent. Sometimes I wouldn't bring…

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I used to say Page Joseph Falkinburg - which is my given name - when Page Joseph Falkinburg stopped trying to be…

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I had some great matches with 'Macho Man,' but the one at Halloween Havoc in 1997 was intense, and Havoc was the…

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No one iced their body in professional wrestling before me. I did it because I was 35, 36, 37. I was already…

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Bottom line is, work ethic equals dreams, and I am walking proof that that's a fact.

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I don't need to prove anything in that ring anymore. I've done all that.

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I don't want to spoil this for anybody but wrestling, sports entertainment, is 'pre-determined.'

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Originally, when I was introduced to yoga, I kept resisting. I kept saying that I wouldn't be caught dead doing yoga.

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When I blew my back out at age 42, I said, 'Okay, I've got to be more concerned about food and health.'

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Everything I do, I have a certain amount of pride for.

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Rock has the ability to make you feel like you're the only person in the room.

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No one iced their body in professional wrestling before me. I did it because I was 35, 36, 37. I was already what would…

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Everyone is connected to somebody with some type of addiction. It's so ramped now. Everyone has an uncle, a cousin, somebody who has addiction.…

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Everybody has some kind of addiction. It's about how you get around that addiction. First, you have to break the habit like anything. You…

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I worked the bar business in Fort Lauderdale.

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When I came into WWE after Monday Night Wars, it wasn't my greatest time in the business... but they kept bringing me back.

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I started wrestling when I was 35, but my career didn't take off until I was 40.

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P90X and Insanity are awesome workouts for young guys who aren't beat up. DDPYoga is for guys who are beat up. It's the fountain…

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Wrestling is cyclical. And if you look at the '80s, it had an unbelievable run, and then it just fell down. '90s had the…

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