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I had vied for a championship; I had been involved in being a No. 1 contender, and having runs where I got close but I never got there. Being able to finally get there and be the guy to carry the load and carry it for a while, I felt like I arrived, and it validated my career.

Mark Henry


Car While Where

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The true measure of strength is through a squat and deadlift.

Mark Henry

Strength True Through
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I usually eat whatever I want... about 5,000 to 7,000 calories a day.

Mark Henry

Whatever Want Usual
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Your political views should be your political views. I believe in business being non-partisan.

Mark Henry

Business Art Your
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At one point in my life, I thought getting old was a bad thing. Then I realized that the prestige, the respect, and the honor that people hold you at for being able to do anything for 20 years is well worth it.

Mark Henry

Respect Life You
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I had vied for a championship; I had been involved in being a No. 1 contender, and having runs where I got close but I never got there. Being able to finally get there and be the guy to carry the load and carry it for a while, I felt like I arrived, and it validated my career.

Mark Henry

Car While Where
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The more you shine, the more positively people start looking at you.

Mark Henry

Positive Art You
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I've always been a big guy. I weighed 220 pounds in the 5th grade.

Mark Henry

Weigh Ways Way
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A lot of athletes are stuck on themselves and don't want to socialize and that kind of thing. When I see that, I hate it.

Mark Henry

Want Tuck Thing
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Daniel Bryan is one of my favorite wrestlers - as a talent, as an entertainer, the way our fans love and revere him. There's never been a match he and I have been in where it was bad.

Mark Henry

Love Ya Wrestlers
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I was an unusually big kid for my age and did not know how to express myself after being targeted as the odd one out. I thus landed myself in trouble for reacting aggressively. But with time, I succeeded as an athlete and people started respecting me.

Mark Henry

Time Respect Art
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I was the first WWE developmental talent. When I moved to Connecticut to start training, I had no idea what wrestling was other than what I saw as a fan.

Mark Henry

Men Art WWE
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Being 19 years old and making the Olympic team on my last lift. I went 6-for-6 and had a perfect Olympic trial. Making the team and being one of the youngest to ever go to the Olympics was pretty special.

Mark Henry

Youngest Young You
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I want to be known as a great dad more than anything.

Mark Henry

Great Want Thing
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To know that you will be in the International Sports Hall of Fame and that people for hundreds of years will know who you are and what you did, it means everything.

Mark Henry

Sports You Years
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It's humbling how my peers view me as not only one of the best Olympic power and weightlifters, but as an athlete.

Mark Henry

Power Weight Weigh
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I wasn't always 6' 4'' and 400 pounds.

Mark Henry

Ways Way UN
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The only thing better than winning a gold medal is going to Heaven.

Mark Henry

Winning Win Thing
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Oh, I was a big Tony Atlas fan. I think I tried to throw my first dropkick because of Tony - and almost broke my shoulder.

Mark Henry

Use Us Tried
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What I want to be is James Bond.

Mark Henry

Want T Me
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I always try to enjoy the moment.

Mark Henry

Mom Men Ways

I have a good sense of humor. I'm not Martin Lawrence by any means. I'm a little too country to be Chris Rock. But I fancy myself as being somebody with a good sense of humor.


Mark Henry

At one point, I remember throwing Jerry Lawler so hard that he didn't touch either rope. He just went straight through and hit the barricade.


Mark Henry

There's a lot to being a weightlifter. People think it's all brute strength. But it takes strength, quickness, flexibility, and technique. And it can cause a lot of stress.


Mark Henry

Oh my God, if you're talking terrible theme songs, you have to mention Matt Hardy. I can't understand what they're even saying. There's a point in Matt Hardy's song where it sounds like they say 'I want to meet the cheese.' I'm always like, 'Meet the cheese?' Just goofy stuff.


Mark Henry

Personally, I had no confines: there were no bounds, no boundaries that I felt when I got in the ring.


Mark Henry

Daniel Bryan is a good athlete, but he's a better entertainer.


Mark Henry

John Cena has granted more wishes than anybody in history. He goes the extra mile.


Mark Henry

I believe in freedom of speech. I believe people have the right to say whatever they want to say. As long as they're ready to own what they say. Because there's a price to pay when you say something that's against the grain that is not correct.


Mark Henry

It may be the swansong of my wrestling career, but definitely not the end of Mark Henry!


Mark Henry

I've had matches go 38 minutes. To be able to move for 38 minutes and have somebody's life in your hands is a difficult thing.


Mark Henry

Randy Orton is one of the people in the industry I respect the most. Not many people can be as smooth and polished in the ring as Randy is, and still be over with the fans, and he is one of the very best in the industry.


Mark Henry

Wrestling isn't like ballet; it's not about practicing a routine. You need to focus. You need to concentrate. You need to know your craft.


Mark Henry

Wrestling went from being sometimes comical to very serious, and there was a lot of depth regarding the vastness in which people performed.


Mark Henry

I'm not fat. There's a difference between being big and being fat.


Mark Henry

I remember being in a situation where everybody, as much as they loved seeing Jerry Lawler's gimmick, they loved to hate him. That's one of the things I learned early on, that if you're going to be in a situation where you're taking on a dominant competitor, you have to get to the point where you love to be hated, if that is what is required.


Mark Henry

It was an unbelievable experience to be in the ring with Jerry Lawler, one of the biggest wrestlers of all time.


Mark Henry

Learn how to humble yourself, and be able to take advice and not feel like you know everything.


Mark Henry

I'm more on the bigger side, so people don't think I have speed. I'm not the fastest guy, but I guarantee I'm not the slowest.


Mark Henry

I was kind of sheltered. I grew up in Silsbee, Texas, a town of 3,000 people.


Mark Henry

I'd like to be a tag titleholder, I'd like to be the WWE champion, but more than anything, I want to make guys leaders.


Mark Henry

My kids are jaded, spoiled, entitled as hell.


Mark Henry

I was called everything ugly and black in the world. Man, those where some tough times. They called me Fat Albert, Magilla Gorilla, black ape. It all hurt.


Mark Henry

You can't be a champion and look like a bum. You have to look, and be, the part. It's not just because it's required of your job, but is important to how you hold yourself.


Mark Henry

Black culture - we dance and sing. We're entertainers. James Brown said it best: the things we are make people want to be like us.


Mark Henry

Nobody will ever top Owen Hart. Owen was like a brother to me. I loved him so much because he made me laugh harder than anyone's made me laugh in my life.


Mark Henry

Indian wrestlers definitely have a place in the industry.


Mark Henry

Originally, nobody knew John Cena rapped. It was just something he did in the car. I told Bruce Prichard, and that's how the whole 'Thugonomics' run began.


Mark Henry

Ribbing is a part of wrestling. That's the way they show a fondness for you - they play practical jokes on you. They put your wrestling gear in plastic bags and throw it in the shower. Just stupid stuff.


Mark Henry

I never in my career did appearances, like where you go and sign autographs, and you do the comic-cons and all of that stuff, because I wanted, when I stopped wrestling, to go and do that stuff and have it really mean something to somebody, that it hadn't been watered down.


Mark Henry

My brother and I loved to body-slam each other when we were kids. We tore up a lot of furniture.


Mark Henry