Diamond Dallas Page On Muhammad Ali, His 2018 & His New Book “Positively Unstoppable”
As a WWE Hall Of Famer, Diamond Dallas Page remains known to many millions of people around the world as a legendary professional wrestler. But rather than spending the rest of his post-wrestling life coasting on his wrestling-related accolades — including being a multi-time world champion — Page decided to take a professional path that practically no one could have seen coming: creating the acclaimed and universally-renowned fitness system known as “DDP YOGA.”
While DDP YOGA does have the word “yoga” in its title, DDPY is unlike any other fitness system you will ever encounter. The program combines yoga poses and calisthenics with physical therapy principles, and is exactly what Page himself utilized to get his body healed so he could get back into the ring in the late 1990s. Based on an interactive app — think Netflix but with workouts, cooking programs, motivational talks and a points-based rewards system — DDPY lets users of any age, skill level, athletic background or fitness capacity do its workouts from anywhere.
Much like his wrestling career — which began at the age of 35 — finding success with DDP YOGA was by no means an immediate success for Diamond Dallas Page. It not only took years for DDPY to find an audience, but Page spent just about all of his savings from his wrestling career before any of his hefty investment started coming back to him. Fortunately, nowadays, it is totally normal to hear that both celebrities (e.g. Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, Nita Strauss, Fozzy’s Rich Ward and Chris Jericho, A.J. Styles, Gabriel Iglesias, Darius Rucker, Drew McIntyre) and everyday folks are doing DDPY.
Positively Unstoppable: The Art Of Owning It is the new book by Diamond Dallas Page. Part-memoir and part-inspirational tale, it ought to have you both laughing and learning as you read it. It is intended to give you the know-how to “own it” — whatever it is to you — on a permanent basis. I spoke to Page about this and plenty more during our late December 2018 phone chat, and highlights from that interview are below. More on Diamond Dallas Page and DDP YOGA — including live workshops and Positively Unstoppable info — can be found at www.ddpyoganow.com.
On whether he accomplished everything he had hoped for in 2018:
“More… I’m living in a ridiculously-beautiful house that I never thought… It wasn’t my dream to live in this house and I own it. The bank owns nothing. I mean, my businesses, everything, I don’t have any debt. I don’t put myself in a position to take on debt. At 62 [years of age] I’m not thinking about 65, I’m thinking about 75, 80, 95, 105. Everything I do is calculated when it comes to investing in myself.
The biggest thing I think this book gives is confidence if you apply what I’m teaching you. It’s not going to just happen by you just reading it. It goes back to Muhammad Ali’s quote: ‘The repetitions of affirmations leads to belief, and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.’ When you think about that, no one knows who said that quote. Nobody. But when you just say what his affirmation was, just about every every single person in the world over 40 knows who said that… ‘I’m the greatest, I’m the greatest of all time.’ That’s how I start my book up with a quote from Ali. ‘I am the greatest, I am the greatest of all time, I knew it even before I knew I was.’ That’s the quote by Ali . That’s how it starts . The book right .
On having the chance to meet Muhammad Ali:
“I got to meet him numerous times. I actually have a picture of me and him on the cover of the WCW Magazine. I actually have a picture of me and Ali locking up. He calling it. He said, ‘Lock up, Diamond,’ and I was blown the f**k away. I have a picture of Muhammad Ali doing the Diamond Cutter sign.”
About the Author
Darren Paltrowitz Darren Paltrowitz is a New York resident with over 20 years of entertainment industry experience. He began working around the music business as a teenager, interning for the manager of his then-favorite band Superdrag. Since then, he has worked with a wide array of artists including OK Go, They Might Be Giants, Mike Viola, Tracy Bonham, Loudness, Rachael Yamagata, and Amanda Palmer. Darren's writing has appeared in dozens of outlets including the New York Daily News, Inquisitr, The Daily Meal, The Hype Magazine, All Music Guide, Guitar World, TheStreet.com, Businessweek, Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, and the Jewish Journal. Beyond being "Editor At Large" for The Hype Magazine, Darren is also the host of weekly "Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz" series, which airs on dozens on television and digital networks. He has also co-authored 2 published books, 2018's "Pocket Change: Your Happy Money" (Book Web Publishing) and 2019's "Good Advice From Professional Wrestling" (6623 Press), and co-hosts the world's only known podcast about David Lee Roth, "The DLR Cast."
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