By Chris Walters on February 15, 2006 at 3:20 PM EST

Bret Hart recently spoke out on his decision to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in an interview with Canada's Slam Wrestling website. Below are some highlights from the interview.

On his decision to accept induction into the WWE Hall of Fame: "It took a lot of diplomacy," Hart said. "But I think we just softened. Vince McMahon called me up when I had my stroke in 2002, and I think that was a big step towards where we are now. I always appreciated the fact that he called me and that softened a lot of the bad feelings between us."

Why he agreed to do the Bret Hart/WWE DVD: "The title of the DVD was to be Screwed," he said, "and when Vince called me to partake in it, I said that I would never be a part of it. When I eventually saw it, it was nearly complete, and it was right up there with the Ultimate Warrior's DVD. I told Vince that my career was never about what had happened at Survivor Series or about Owen's death."

On his series of matches with Ric Flair: "Flair and I had pretty good matches, by Flair's standards anyway," Hart commented. "But on the day that I won the belt, and from that point on, we starting having really shitty matches. He sort of, accidentally-on-purpose, began screwing up the matches, getting the endings wrong. I found that this was happening consistently, and I ended up going to Vince McMahon and telling him that Flair was sabotaging the matches. They ended up calling us together to try and sort it out, and I remember him confessing to me that he was having problems with his wife, at home, that he was distracted, and he apologized for not being able to give me the matches that we had had before."

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[Source: PWTorch.com]