“Well, that is definitely my belief, yes. It’s another opportunity for me to wrestle for that [TNA] world title and the stipulations are pretty high. So it’ll be a big night for me, no matter how you look at it.”

“Bully Ray’s been pretty impressive. He’s done a great job; that’s for sure. He’s figured it out. A lot of times guys, who’ve been in the tag team situation for that many years, it’s hard for them to transition into singles. A lot of them who have tried have never really successfully done it, but Bully Ray has found a niche and a way, and he has done a good job.”

“After all the year I’ve been doing this, I want [TNA] to be a good product. I want wrestling fans to be satisfied. I want to please people. The overall goal is to be entertaining -- to keep people very interested in tuning into TNA.”

“I know there’s some negativity out there as ell, but for the most part, it’s the whole nostalgia thing that I keep talking about. Retro fans just don’t want to say good-bye to Hulk Hogan or Ric Flair or Undertaker or Sting,” he said. “There’s only a handful of my generation. Of course, Flair and Hogan, they’re the generation before me. They don’t want to say good-bye to the last remaining few, and that’s a good thing for me, a good thing for us, and I appreciate it. I’m grateful for it.”

“Stay away from drugs, pills and alcohol. Stay away from the women. Stay away from the politics -- the behind the scenes stuff that goes on,” Sting said. “Just get out there and entertain. Work your butt off, take care of yourself in and out of the ring and turn to God.

“That was a huge part of my wrestling career, turning to God. If I didn’t, I probably would have ended up like one of those guys who you’ve read about.

“I’ve had wrestlers over the years, many of them, including last week [Impact Wrestling at the USF Sun Dome] in Tampa, one of the biggest names talking to me about God and asking me questions. There’s a reason for it. They know I was them. In other words, I’m not going to condemn anybody or point my finger at anyone. I ran with the best of ‘em and did what I did all those years on the road, and they know it.

“They have seen a change in me, and they ask, ‘How’d you do it?’ And I tell them how I did it. Some of them have been in and out of so many different types of trouble and rehabs. I’m there to try to be a rock solid sounding board for some of the guys, and that’s been a good thing.”

"I’m going to go down in history as one of my characters being the Crow Sting, but it actually started with Eric Bischoff, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall [in WCW] with one of their nWo vignettes, an edgy, brainy kind of deal. Wrestling was changing, and my character hadn’t changed, but I knew it was time to do that. I was sitting in a hotel in Casper, Wyoming. I was with Eric Bischoff and Scott Hall, and Scott said, [Sting impersonates Scott Hall -- not bad], ‘I’m thinking trenchcoat and put white paint all over your face.’ So I started thinking about it.

“I remember going through an airport, and you know how the magazine stand has a 100 magazines. Well, there was Marilyn Manson of all people on one of the covers, and he had this weird looking paint on his face, and I went, ‘Wooooh.’ So I kind of took a little bit of that and then just created what I created.”