Roddy Piper: "Thank you. Heard any good Roddy Piper jokes lately? I know, what they're saying about me. I know from the—You guys know the interviews, all the stuff, you know. They're saying I'm crazy. I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell. And I know a lot of you guys can't tell that, but you stick around awhile and you're gonna see a different side of me, man. If you can take one heap of all your winnings and risk it all on turn of pitch-and-toss and lose, and start at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss. This is as real as it gets. You wanted reality, you got reality.
I owe my life and my career—I've always prowled the line in wrestling between fantasy and reality for you. I'm as real as it gets. I have fought, I have given a hip. I have fought, in the NWA I started. I was in the NWA in Los Angeles. I was in the NWA in Portland, Oregon. I was in the NWA Charlotte, North Carolina, Atlanta, Georgia, New York, New York, London, Paris, Africa—Dammit! And I am guilty, I am guilty of making more devastation than everybody in this building, but I won't back down. I stand beside everything I say and I pay the consequences.
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