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Rock Says by The Rock (Paperback) The Rock says. . .
"Know your damn role--and shut your
mouth!" But that simple catch-phrase,
embraced by the millions and the millions--of The
Rock's fans, can't begin to capture the spirit
and larger-than-life personality of the most
electrifying man in sports-entertainment."
In this
action-packed, revealing and outrageously funny
memoir, World Wrestling Federation Superstar The
Rock recounts his life in and out of the ring
with unapologetic honesty and inimitable style.
From his boyhood days traveling around the world
with his father (professional wrestler Rocky
Johnson) to his years as a football player at the
University of Miami to his meteoric rise through
the ranks of the Federation, The Rock Says. .
.chronicles in vivid detail the life story of one
of sports-entertainment's most innovative and
best-loved personalities.
The Rock recalls
his injury-plagued career at Miami and a
subsequent foray to the Great White North, where
he discovered that in Canada being a professional
football player is not exactly a glamorous life.
After a few months of sleeping on putrid, stained
mattresses that he dug out of the garbage and
subsisting on nothing but plain spaghetti,
"D.J." ditched his cleats forever and
set his sights on the path of his father and
grandfather--wrestling.
Performing first
in the minors as plain old Dwayne Johnson, then
as "Flex Kavana" and later as
"Rocky Maivia," he quickly became one
of the World Wrestling Federation's hopefuls. But
no matter how he tried to get over with the fans,
the stadiums greeted him with chants of
"Rocky sucks! Rocky sucks!" He then
adopted the brash persona of The Rock--a
snorting, spitting, snotting, swearing
son-of-a-bitch with the soul of a smart-ass comic
and the body of an Adonis--and he found his true
calling as the "People's Champion."
The Rock will take
fans on a guided tour of big-time professional
wrestling, a highly competitive business in which
a handful of gifted and lucky performers
dominate, and all others dream of a moment in the
spotlight. He provides a breathtaking,
minute-by-minute account of Wrestle Mania, the
Super Bowl of pro wrestling, including an
intimate backstage look at rehearsals with his
opponent, Stone Cold Steve Austin. And he
discusses in heartfelt detail the loss of his
friend and co-worker, Owen Hart.
Filled with
genuinely touching stories of love and strife,
hilarious anecdotes, inside accounts of an
industry whose machinations have long been
shrouded in secrecy and dozens of previously
unpublished photographs from The Rock's personal
collection, The Rock Says. . .is--as The
Rock himself might put it--"the coolest
thing since the other side of the pillow if you
smell what The Rock is cookin'."
Written by: The
Rock
Publishers: Regan
Books
Length: 384 pages
Year Published:
November 2000
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