Mick Foley Would ‘Like To Say’ Getting The Rock With A ‘It Doesn’t Matter’ Was The Rock’s Idea

Mick Foley looks back on the time he got The Rock with an ‘It Doesn’t Matter’.

On a 2000 edition of WWE Monday Night RAW, one of wrestling’s favorite odd couple pairings The Rock And Sock connection (Mick Foley and The Rock) had an iconic segment, as Mick Foley managed to get The Rock with his own ‘It Doesn’t Matter’ catchphrase.

While speaking on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Mick Foley was asked about getting The Rock with his own catchphrase, with Foley noting that he’d ‘like to say’ it was The Rock’s idea.

“I’d like to say it was his idea. I don’t know. I don’t know if I would have been bold enough to say, Can I use your catchphrase against you? But part of the fun of being with Rock is that nobody gave us a script, we went out there as the Rock and Sock Connection. So even when I started playing off his catchphrases, it worked so well because it was live, whereas if I’d said, ‘Hey, how do you feel about this?’ Maybe it would have gotten shot down. I remember I was doing a signing somewhere, and they were playing like the best of Rock and Sock Connection. And I had to remember, I’m at a signing, because I was marking out so much for our own work. And by the way, I only use the word mark in a positive way towards myself. I think the idea of referring to your fans in negative terms is self-defeating. You’re talking about your fans, people who like what you do, and then you’re going to give them a name based on them liking what you do? What does that make you? I consider what I do to wrestling is an art form, it really is. It’s anything you want it to be, and if you take pride in what you do, then you should not be criticizing the people who like it. So when I say marking out, I only do that in happy terms, and usually about myself.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Foley spoke about the origin of his Have ‘A Nice Day!’ catchphrase. You can read more about that here.