10 Things You Didn't Know About George "The Animal" Steele

10. He Was A Teacher/Coach

Long before William Myers ever stepped foot in a wrestling ring, he was a teacher. He worked - and coached football and wrestling - at his old alma mater, Madison Heights, Michigan's Madison High School. Though Myers's dyslexia made schoolwork difficult for him, he managed to graduate, then get a B.S. from Michigan State University and a master's from Central Michigan University.

It wasn't until Steele compared his modest paycheck to the expenses of his growing family that he realized he needed a side job that would help him make more money. A friend of his, Dave, put him in touch with local wrestling promoter Bert Ruby, and the rest was history.

Myers continued to teach long after he became a successful wrestler. Though the sport was more regional in those days and he wrestled away from where he worked, Myers would occasionally be confronted by a student who would show him a wrestling magazine with Steele in it and ask him if they were one and the same. His standard response was "You really think I'm that ugly?"