Terry Ugene Bollea (/bəˈleɪə/, born August 11, 1953), better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, is an American retired professional wrestler, actor, television personality, entrepreneur and musician.
I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.
I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days but it didn't work out.
Whatcha gunna do when Hulkamanina and my 24 pythons run wild on you?!?!?!!?
I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.
If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.
After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.
As far as my divorce goes, I love my family and I love my wife to death and I just don't know what tomorrow's going to bring.
Whatcha gonna do, when Hulkamania runs wild on you!
In the ring, it's fun to be the bad guy, but 24 hours a day, when you have to talk to kids, and you see Make-A-Wish kids that love you, the bad guy stuff is not fun. I'd rather be a good guy 24 hours a day than a bad guy just for a few minutes in the ring.
When you're nWo, you're nWo for life.
I've always felt from everyone I talk to that the fans feel like I'm tangible and they can talk to me and they know me.
I'm real good with math, with numbers, like my dad was. I'm pretty much dialed in.
The only time I'm not Hulk Hogan is when I'm behind closed doors because as soon as I walk out the front door, and somebody says hello to me, I can't just say 'hello' like Terry. When they see me, they see the blond hair, the mustache, and the bald head, they instantly think Hulk Hogan.
When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, 'No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn't a good actor,' whatever Hollywood thinks of me.
We're probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship.
A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.
Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.
I'd like to be the John Wayne of the '90s. Not in terms of being the macho guy, but as a solid male leading character. Making an action-adventure comedy that kids can see with their families is a natural extension of what I did in wrestling.
I promised each and every Hulkamaniac when I went to that great battlefield in the sky I would bring the WWF title with me.
I'm real critical of myself and if I take the bandana off my head I'm completely bald headed and go from being 58 to looking 68 instantly.