I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would ever be standing here accepting this award. It's a pleasure in an honor. As you all know, I came from a small town in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. And if anybody ever told me that I would grow up and make history and be in a family dynasty, I would have told everybody they were crazy. Through all my career, I have wrestled for the National Wrestling Alliance and many smaller promotions overseas. And then finally for the World's Wrestling Federation, now the WWE I consider my home. The highest point of my career came in 1983, along with my friend Tony Atlas when we became the first Black Team Champion of the World. I find it very difficult. I'm kind of lost for words. But let me say this, we beat the Walsam Owens and a tag team championship match. And I think we made history that night. And I'm very, very proud of it. This is a... Thank you. And I love you all too. And I want to thank you. Because this is not in my script, but without you, I wouldn't be standing here. Thank you. And I want to thank you. And I want to thank you. Good show. I love you, man. Always will. This is a very special occasion. May be even more because I should honor with I chiefly to my via. I know my father-in-law, he's in heaven right now. And I know he's looking down on all of us for the big smile on his face. He was a great man. And I love him in this day. And I really don't like this speech. Because Leah, I want to tell you from the bottom of my heart, I thank you for everything that you've done for me. But not only that, for the business and the Samoan culture. She was one and the only. And thank you, thank you, Linda. She was the only ever Samoan promoter. And I thank her for that. Tehatha, how can I ever thank you for the on-wavering support through the years? You have to understand that they welcome me into the Samoan family. And I was so proud to be named the first non-Samoan high chief. And my chief title is Chief Cassie Iafi. And I'm very proud of that. She also gave me something that nobody could ever take from us. She gave me a beautiful son and Duane. You have to excuse me. I would also like to thank my beautiful daughter, Wanda, my son, Curtis, and for Duane, for everything you've done for me. You made me proud by continuing our family, our family, and I know in the beginning I resisted you from entering the business because I knew it was extremely difficult. And I only agreed to train you on one condition that I would not go on go easy on you. And let me tell you I didn't. I will tell you, follow Sally, I will tell you a story that's not on this script. You got Sally with me one time as a bottom out on a half from home. And is he here? Yeah. Okay. I was just checking and he wanted sympathy and it was pouring down rain and I said if you want sympathy go home and your mother and get it. He said that's exactly where I'm going. He took his bag and he left. And I love you too. I am both we touched and honored. I know Peter would be very proud. It was a it was great jumping in the ring on Duane's half on WrestleMania 13. At least I thought because when I got back in the dress room he told me to mine my own business. Yeah, there is one more thing. There was one special event that I always remember it was a father and son tag team matches. Very first match in Bahamas. I'll never forget it. First of all we went over to match in the dress room and it was dad do this dad do that. I said okay. I started the match the first five minutes into my match. He told me everything I was doing wrong. So I said okay. I tagged him. Every minute later he came back huffing the puffing and I said don't take me because everything I'm doing is wrong. So years later we still talk about it and we have a great laugh. But I will say this from the bottom of my heart and I love him very much. He's my son and he always will be and I'm very proud of him. Well, another special friend what can I say? I've been his friend for over 30 years. I love him very much. We work together around the world giving a fans 110 percent. I love him to this very day. He's my best friend and brother. Half the time I didn't know what he was saying. The other half it didn't matter. And that's my friend Jimmy Superfly Snooker. How's that? I want to thank you and men for everything you've done and I want to appreciate your knowledge and thank you. You're doing a great job. Peter passed a letter on to you and you opened the door for a lot of many simons and I'm very proud of you. I could go on and on. Phil, Lynn, God bless you. In the beginning I started working and tag team matches along with my friend. I was very proud of you. In the beginning I started with my friend jumping jack arm strong around the tour to get some experience. When I went to the south it was very hard. It was a long hard road. I dealt with everything from racial prejudice. There were hotels that wouldn't allow me to stay because I was black. There were wrestlers who didn't want to work with me. Not because I couldn't work. I wasn't a great worker by any means. But because of the color of my skin some of them tried to make me look bad on purpose. If I withdraw a drop kick you could set your clock by the time they got up. And little did they know that they were helped me because that's when I started to learn dancing and stuff of some stand in there. I never want to forget them. I never want to forget when I went to Charlotte, North Carolina. The promoters asked me to come in on her mask. They wanted to call me the black stud. I said to them, you got the right name just the wrong man. We came up with a name sweet every diamond. I worked with Rick Flair who shared that evening event in the Charlotte call of a sim. He was always a class act and he made me look like a million dollars. We're as Rick by the way. Is he in the house? Oh that's right he's in the back he's going to. But get I say first thing goes your mind.