Book : The Stone Cold Truth (wwe) - Austin, Steve

-Titulo Original : The Stone Cold Truth (wwe)

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WWE Superstar Stone Cold Steve Austin shares an unvarnished take on his life and his days as a wrestler from growing up in small town Texas to his long-awaited return to the world of professional wrestling. Hes wrestled under many names, but to the fans he is and will always be Stone Cold Steve Austin™. His quick wit and colorful use of language combined with his everyman character captured the hearts of fans worldwide and rewrote the dynamics of professional wrestling forever. Steves ability inside the ring and his quick-witted responses lead to his becoming one of the most popular WWE© Superstars of all times. With the creation of the Stone Cold™ character, Steves popularity expanded exponentially. It seemed nothing could stop the Texas Rattlesnake™, except himself. About the Author Stone Cold Steve Austin is a retired professional wrestler, television personality, and actor. He has wrestled in the ECW, WCW, and WWF. He has been known as The RingMaster, Superstar Steve Austin, Stunning Steve Austin, and Stone Cold Steve Austin. He has held the tag team belt in WCW and WWF, the Million Dollar Belt, along with the US champion in WCW and the Intercontinental Championship in WWF. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1March 29, 2003 --Saturday Night,Pre-WrestleMania XIXWhen Im sitting there backstage and Im getting ready to go through that curtain, Im just waiting for that glass to break and when it hits, when that crowd explodes, I might as well be a junkie and Im hooked on a drug. -- Stone Cold Steve AustinDamn, I think Im dying, dying for sure. Im getting off the elevator on the twenty-seventh floor of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Seattle, the night before WrestleMania XIX, and my hearts beating so hard it feels like its going to crack a rib jumping out of my chest.Im saying to myself, Im thirty-eight years old and Im fixing to freaking die, right here, right now. Im having a damned heart attack! And Im wondering how the hell it could have happened.Im Stone Cold Steve Austin -- the toughest SOB in World Wrestling Entertainment, better known as WWE. This is Saturday night and tomorrow is WrestleMania XIX, the biggest Pay-Per-View event of the year. Im in one of the biggest matches of my career, wrestling The Rock in my first real match after being out of the business for over eight months. Ive been working out twice a day at the gym and doing nothing but focusing on this match. Mentally, Im ready, despite all the challenges Ive been through in the last couple of years -- injuries, surgery and rehab, divorces and -- most unexpected of all, maybe -- my leaving WWE. Physically, I look like somebody who deserves the name Stone Cold. But truthfully, Im a walking disaster area. My back, neck and knees are a mess. Ive got two fused discs in my back and others just barely holding together.But tomorrow is WrestleMania, and I need to perform the best I can and put on a hell of a match. Hell, it could very well be the last one of my career. I want to go out in a blaze of glory, like anybody would.Standing here on the twenty-seventh floor of the Grand Hyatt, my heart pounding against my ribs like a gorilla trying to bust its way out of a cage...that wasnt in the plans at all.I had woken up that morning feeling all right. But the more I thought about it, the problem went back before that morning...The day before, which was Friday, I had bought a couple of those high-energy drinks from the gym. I was in the habit of drinking from three to five of those things a day, plus anywhere from one to two pots of coffee, while I was off and working out. Those drinks are loaded with Ephedra and that Ma Huang crap and lots of caffeine. I should have known with all the warnings about ephedra, but it never bothered me until now. Famous last words.I worked out at the gym on Friday and went back to the hotel. I was a little emotional, because I figured this was th