Shane Douglas Quotes

Vince McMahon could care less about the ECW legacy.

To be someplace for ten years or to work anywhere for ten years is a tough deal. But to work in the WWE for that long, knowing how their dressing room is run with this top heavy, condescending ‘do this and nothing else’ attitude, it gets tiresome.

With what we were doing in ECW, the first thing you had to overcome was the fear of getting hurt.

I got my break in the business with the now-defunct Bill Watts’ TWF, the old Mid–South. Which was really, in many ways, the predecessor to ECW in its time, in that age. It was a really cool, high-impact, snug type of product.

When I got the name ‘The Franchise,’ the gimmick, and turned it into what it became, I put my heart and soul into that.

For a company the size of ECW, there wasn’t room for multiple over-the-top personalities.

In TNA, if I wrestle, I’m able to help one person. As a road agent and head of talent relations, I can help an entire crew.

I’ve always been a huge mark for Samoa Joe.

I know this sounds corny, but if I give you my word I am going to do something, you can take it to the bank. Whether that means if my giving my word puts me in a detrimental position, I’m still going to follow through on my word, and I’ll let the pieces fall where they may.

People think all wrestlers are millionaires. It’s really a blue-collar existence.

John Cena’s name is already universal enough. Kudos to him for that.

To me, the NWA is a thing of the past.

I have seen enough people in my business die that I don’t sit back and hope that this one or that one goes but not the other guys. I don’t want to see anyone of these guys die.

In ECW, we couldn’t have an off night.

Chris Candido – besides loving him like a little brother – I used to sit and watch him in awe because it was so effortless for him. He could wake up from a nap and go out and have a five-star match.

I’ll tell you upfront, I think Shawn Michaels was probably the most gifted worker the business has ever seen.

Your Bret Harts can lace my boots.

My house is paid for because of wrestling, and it’s given me a nice savings.

I can’t even tell you how many 8, 9, 10 year old kids have come up to me and said, ‘You are my favorite wrestler, and I’ve seen you on ‘the network‘ or on YouTube.’

For those of you who weren’t a part of the era of ECW, understand, you’re looking at the guy that made ECW what ECW was. So, simply put, I’m as close to royalty in this sport as it comes.

We all go to our grave thinking that we will never be forgotten, and we are forgotten ten minutes later.

Bam Bam Bigelow truly deserves to be in the Hall of Fame, and if that call would come, I’d be honored to do it, but I don’t think it is going to come. I think there is a much greater likelihood that Vince would look elsewhere, but I am honored that the fans would want to consider that I should be the one to induct him.

Harley Race was eloquent in his moves – everything made sense, like a hand in a glove.

In my business, my job is to make people believe they are seeing something they’re not seeing.

A morality clause is a grey area that the powers that be say if it is immoral, than it’s immoral, and you are getting fired.

I gravitated to the pro wrestlers and the grappling – Hulk Hogan ‘hulking up’ always looked cornball to me – and I wanted to see Ric Flair, Ricky Steamboat, and Harley Race go move-for-move.

Optics can drive an economy.

The fact I’ve carved out a niche in the business and had an almost 30-year career and done well without competing at a WrestleMania is something I’m proud of. To be in a business that’s dominated by one guy and be able to do well without having to walk on that stage is great.

I was so deep in red ink coming out of ECW that I had to make a good solid living just to get my nose above the water line because of ECW.

The world is made up of good and evil, and everybody has their own take, and everybody thinks they are on the good side, and a very few, select group of us will admit that we come from the dark side.

When Paul Heyman came and gave me the whole idea for the character, ‘The Franchise,’ I remember the NFL was just starting to classify one of their players as the franchise player. So that was the whole idea, that ‘The Franchise’ was the franchise player for ECW.

It would be a huge loss to the wrestling industry and for those of us that have made our living in this industry to lose someone like Ric Flair.

I think Ric Flair has been tarnishing his legacy since 1990 – he has done more to tarnish his career then anything I could have said or did, then anybody could have said or did.