- As a newborn, just...
well, he was just
a beautiful, beautiful little baby.
He had big blue eyes and a real cute little nose,
and he was just a really pretty baby.
And white, white, hair.
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I think Steve always had his own mind.
He knew exactly what he wanted to do,
and he was gonna do it his way,
which sometimes was a little difficult,
being his mom,
but I remember his teacher at the time.
Mrs. Bailey was her name,
and she was a sweet, sweet, sweet lady,
and she adored Steve.
She said, "But the only problem I have with him, Ms. Williams,
"is that he has got the most go-to-hell attitude
of a little five-year-old I've ever seen."
And, you know, that was--
I thought, "Hmm," you know. "That's my little boy
that has that attitude."
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I remember, he called me one day.
He said, "Mom, do you think
"that you and Dad would just be really disappointed
"if I didn't come back to Edna and work
in the insurance business with Dad?"
And... I said, "Well, no, sweetheart."
You know.
"If that isn't what you wanna do,
"we certainly, you know,
"don't want you to do something
that you would not be happy in doing."
And he's, "Well, I'm really thinking
about trying the professional wrestling,"
and I said, "Oh, mm."
[laughs] You know?
I said, "Okay," and, uh...
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He said, "Well, what do you think about that?"
And I said, "Oh, honey, that's just fine with me,
as long as you change your name."
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We went to one match
at the Compaq Center
and it was televised,
and we had about 50 or 60 people from Edna going,
and we were all waiting outside
for different ones that were coming,
straggling in, and I remember sitting there,
and all these people
were wearing Stone Cold T-shirts,
and they had Stone Cold hands they were waving.
Just--just streams and streams of people
with my son's face and shirts on, you know?
And it was like, "Gee."
The response of the audience
to Steve's name...
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Was just... an experience.
It was a--we did not get the full feeling of it
had we been watching on TV,
which was all we had done to that point,
and at that time, we realized
what... a star our son had become.
[crowd chanting "Austin"]
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This is a picture of Steve.
He was about 13 at the time.
And the guitar that he has is his dad's guitar
that he played forever and ever and ever.
I think it went to college with him.
And Steve would pluck on it
and make up all these crazy, outrageous songs.
- Ever since I was a little kid...
- Yeah. - If I ever had a problem,
my dad would break out the old guitar
and sing me a few songs and...
- It's kind of a joke.
I mean, he's still doing that, right,
you know, on TV,
when he's trying to sing a song
to Vince McMahon.
- ♪ Kumbaya, my lord ♪
♪ Kumbaya ♪
♪ Kumbaya, my lord ♪
♪ Kumbaya ♪
- What makes me most proud
when I think of Steve is,
he did set a very high goal for himself,
and that he sacrificed so much
and worked so hard to achieve this.
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And also that he is still
our Steve Williams,
and... such a kind, loving son.
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