Below is a transcript of Goldberg's appearence on The Tonight Show w/ Jay Leno.

LENO: Mr. Continental, I like the "kiss the hand" thing. (referring to Goldberg kissing the hand of Kevin Costner on his way in)

BERG: You're just a little jealous I didn't do it to you...

LENO: I am jealous! Are you a little nervous in this kinda venue?

BERG: I'm only nervous because I'm actually wearing clothes and not beating people up..... (pop)

LENO : Usually wrestlers have odd names, Goldberg is your real name, isn't it; Did you ever think of being "The Titan", or one of
those deals?

BERG : My name was originally "The Assassin", but I changed it to something more menacing, like "Goldberg"... (sarcasm)

LENO : Well, "Goldberg" is disarming.. they expect an accountant or something like that.... (pop)... well, a lot of people might not
know. You played in the NFL. With the Raiders?

BERG: Atlanta Falcons

LENO: Three years?

BERG: Three years, yeah.

LENO: What happened, you got injured, right?

BERG: Tore my lower abdomen, unfortunately, and now moved on to bigger and better things.

LENO: Worked out okay! Were your Parents wrestlers? (POP)

BERG: They were the famous Jewish Tag Team from the Mid-west! (POP)

LENO: So what do your folks do?

BERG: My mother was a concert violinist, my father was a Gynecologist.... so go figure! (POP)

LENO: So I guess your career choice was a natural....

BERG: Yeah, they really liked it when I chose to be a wrestler too, first thing my dad was is hang up the phone on me.

LENO: Did he Really?

BERG: Yeah. Now he's my biggest fan....

LENO: Now, do they come (to the matches?)

BERG: Yeah, they come to as many events as Eric Bischoff and all the rest of them. They won't actually allow it, because they try to
come to all of them

LENO That's like the movie "The Jazz Singer"...

BERG: Great... (sarcasm) I'm trying to break that stereotype?

LENO: What made you do this? Where did the transition come from?

BERG: My accountant told me I had to get off my butt and start doing something! I don't want to say it's a natural progression... In
the NFL you always have the locker room thing going.. you do get paid a decent amount of money, and the physical competition... I
thought it was a natural progression for me.

LENO: When I did the wrestling in the Sturges, one thing I liked was that all the wrestlers took the time to talk to all the kids,
nobody ever used bad language. There was a lot of grunting and bodyslamming, but you guys were great with the youngsters; a lot of
athletes won't do sign things and do things... but All the young kids got a little something, a choke, a hit in the head, or
something...

BERG: Yeah, I speared a couple of kids on the way into the ring.. The reason I do everything is for the kids.... It's great
entertainment for them, and I'd drop anything to give an autograph to a kid.I do these two hour autograph sessions and end up
staying for three and a half and four to make sure everybody's got everything.

LENO: I gotta ask you a question, this Steve Austin guy...

BERG: Who's that? (One particular fan gives an excited "boo")

LENO: I hear "Goldberg's a wimp, Golberg's scared of him..." I know you're a friend, and I hate to...

BERG: I guess this gives me an opportunity to throw a challenge out there...

LENO: You want to throw a challenge out there tonight? (pop)

BERG: Back me up on this Kevin, ever since I started, everyone always called me a rip off of Steve Austin. You guys and I know
there's only one Goldberg (pop). And I don't know what he's thinking, or if he's even thinking, (but) I'll throw a hundred grand of
my money, Austin, any time, any place. We can even do it in the back alley of the NBC studios. (big pop)

LENO: How about Calissa becomes the ring girl? (Grunting, playacting) A hundred grand! Austin! You're dead meat! Goldberg taking
you down!

(Thanks to Blake Norton for that)