BILL GOLDBERG INTERVIEW

Question: "I guess your parents weren't really thrilled of their son wanting
to be a wrestler." 

Answer: "No doubt. When I told them I'm starting a new career, in the ring,
they thought I lost it.
But they knew that if I came into a certain conclusion, it's after doubts
and considerations. 
I made clear I don't intend to be "just" a wrestler. 
I knew I could come here and be special and unique. In what? I'm a realistic
wrestler, combining my
power, height, speed and aggresstion. I'm doing things they don't expect a
guy in a weight and height
like mine. And of course, I have charisma. I also combine different styles
of martial arts with football
moves". 

Q: "Satisfied?" 

A: "Very. Now I've signed for WCW for 4 years, and I wouldn't want to be
anywhere else. 

Q: "Why have you decided to become a wrestler"? 

A: "I played football in NFL (the major league) 5 years. I was injured, and
I had to think about the
future. Lex Luger and Sting, I know them for many years already, and
practiced in their gym, and
they've always told me I should wrestle. Until my injury, I didn't think
about it seriously. In last
September I've had my ring debut, against Hugh Morrus. I won of course". 

Q: "As a child, were you interested in wrestling? Have you watched fights on
the TV?" 

A: "Honestly, no. Here and there, at Saturdays, I saw wrestling matches on
the TV, but they weren't
as interesting for me as football. I thought you don't have to be a really
good athlete for wrestling. 
I dreamed to play football". 

Q: "Who do you like to see in the ring?" 

A: "The Steiner brothers, Kevin Nash, Randy Savage. All the big ones. I
study a lot just by
watching them. It's important for me to study and to progress and to
improve, so my opponents
won't be able to predict me in advanced." 

Q: "How do you relax?" 

A: "Going fishing. Taking my dogs an going out to the river." 

Q: "Not many know that you have a first degree in psychology from the
university of Georgia. As a
psychologist, how do you explain the popularity of wrestling?" 

A: "It fills a certain space in the lives of the american male, who doesn't
like watching soap operas.
It's the males soap opera. It allows them to express and give a way for
their emotions. They enjoy
from the violence. They indentify with certain wrestlers, low others. When
I'm in the ring, sometimes
I feel they're wrestling with me, as if I'm a puppet on a string and they're
pulling my strings." 

Q: "There are other wrestlers with academic background, and in spite of
that, the regular image of a
wrestler is a violent punk who grew in the streets." 

A: "That too is a part of the same soap opera I've mentioned earlier. You
give the viewers what they
want to see. I have no intention to participate in this game. I want to be
different from the others. I
want to believe it's hard to define me and stuff me to the category of
"good" or "bad". Me it's me,
doing what I know to do and everyone can define and classify me as they
wish. Other wrestlers
play their character 24 hours a day, even outside the ring. I'm real." 

Q: "What do you, in your opinion?" 

A: "Determination. I don't backup from confrontations, and it's been that
way also when I played
football. When being attacked in the ring, I react, and go for a victory, or
I'll die in the process!" 

Q: "Who will you fight against in the near future?" 

A: "I have no idea. They tell me to come and fight, and I come. I'm just a
worker, a blue color
man."