By James Caldwell, Torch assistant editor

Bret Hart revealed in an interview with the Canwest News Service (canada.com) that he's considered in the past whether he held on to his anger with Vince McMahon over Survivor Series 1997 for too long and could have returned to WWE earlier than 2010.

"You can't help but look yourself in the mirror and say 'Jeez, maybe I overreacted. Maybe I took all this stuff too serious; it's just pro wrestling. I found myself saying that a lot of times: it's just pro wrestling," Hart said. "Wrestling, sometimes, is all just (expletive), but that (expletive) was everything to me."

Hart recalled going through the thought process that he would never return to WWE after Survivor Series 1997, which he repeated in interviews even up until last year, but he said one phone call changed his relationship with McMahon to keep the door open.

"I remember standing in the ring, telling myself that I would never do what I'm doing," Hart said about returning to WWE. "Swearing it to myself, and standing by it for all these years, that I would never, ever work for this man or this company ever again, no matter how desperate I get, how much they ever offered me, I would never come back."

Hart also recalled Vince McMahon calling him after his stroke in 2002: "He just gave me a really good pep talk and talked about how tough I was and that I was going to beat this thing. It kind of changed my relationship with him, that call and the conversation that we had."

Hart has more quotes on current events in the interview linked above.

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