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There is no age limit to wrestling.
It's easier to make the NFL than WWE.
I would like to see another Johnny Valentine.
I take Energol to improve my wind and stamina.
I think CM Punk is a hell of an in-ring performer.
I was six years old and knew I wanted to be a wrestler.
When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be cowboys and Indians.
I turned pro as a wrestler a few days after my last football game.
I crossed over into the WWE, but a lot of guys never did cross over.
Boxing was not as big as wrestling in Japan, but people knew Leon Spinks.
I've got a thick skull and big, thick bones that don't break apart easily.
There never was one like Ric Flair, and there will never be another one like him.
I've had my elbows operated on, both my knees are shot, I've got stitches everywhere.
It's the fans that dictate what wrestling is. That's the one constant from 1917 to 2017.
My point was to always have my spectators leave saying 'hot damn I got my money's worth.'
Personally, I like to think I'm like my old man. I like to think I have the brains he did.
McMahon has made a lot of guys very rich, but he may also be taking years off their lives.
Jimmy Snuka was one of the great performers in the business. In ring performance wise he was phenomenal.
In all my years I don't think I've ever said anything nice about Dusty Rhodes to any member of the media.
Extreme rules, hardcore wrestling - whatever they want to call it - was born out of a necessity to survive.
I've loved wrestling from the first moment I stepped between the ropes. Don't know where I'd be without it.
I have had about 15 operations due to the wrestling profession, and I have a problem with an abdominal hernia.
I like to have Ric Flair in the ring one more time in the MMA or the UFC. I'd like to beat the hell out of him.
I don't want to wrestle past 35. There's just too much physical strain with 250-pound men slamming into each other.
AJ Styles is of a different genre, and he's a wonderful part of wrestling, doing things that a lot of guys can't do.
I am sick and tired of Cassius Clay going around and saying he is the greatest and what a tremendous boxer he has been.
If I had a son, I would steer him away from wrestling. It was fun for me, but for most it's not healthy in the long run.
That is the thing that wrestling is, we are who we are. Even when we are established we are not actors. We are wrestlers.
And what this ECW is doing is educating you people once again that there IS wrestling, spelt W-R-E-S-T-L-I-N-G, out there.
I will give Cassius Clay $250,000 if he will just get into the ring with me anywhere in a combination boxing-wrestling match.
My father never bragged on me as a football player or when I started ! wrestling. But I always knew he was there if I needed him.
My father was strict. He knew how to have a good relationship with Dory Jr. and I. He was our best friend, but we had a lot of fear.
You must be very creative in our business. Creating in this business is making something new, but it is also touching on something old.
What makes that turnstile turn? That's what made wrestling what it has become. The fans dictate the direction of the wrestling industry.
What is hardcore? Hardcore is not just being hardcore, hardcore is going in the ring and giving 100% of yourself. Hardcore is great fans.
I came up with all kinds of stuff. That was part of being great and having creativity. I'm not just bragging about myself. I'm just saying.
Jim Ross has such compassion for the fans. That's because this is natural for him, it's a love, just like the love Gordon Solie had for the business.
In ECW, hardcore wrestling wasn't done just for the fun of it. It was done for a purpose, for a reason. And for me, it was done to exist and produce a revenue for my family.
Vince and WWE, they're not fresh. Yes, Vince does big business. They have the best talent in the world, but they have no fresh ideas. They should be selling out every arena.
There are a lot of things that I remember about Dusty Rhodes. There are so many things that stick out about him. He used to work at my father-in-law's gas station pumping gas.
Sometimes it's great to have a backbone, but you've got to be careful. Remember that sometimes, when you hurt your backbone, you can't get it fixed because you don't have enough money.
I have a knack - and still do - where I can look at a guy and tell you if he's going to draw you money or not. That's very difficult to do. I haven't met too many people who can do that.
My father left a bit of his life with me. He gave me a gift, as did so many other wrestlers, like Mike DiBiase, Bob Geigel, Verne Gagne and Gene Kiniski. They all left me with something.
I have an abdominal hernia which I tore and had operated on, and it's not the easiest thing in the world to get over. I'm gonna go on down the road, but hopefully I can get over the damn thing.
I don't want to die. The last thing I want to do is go in a wrestling ring with a bunch of people watching. I'd rather it be somewhere high up on a mountain. I don't need any fans there for that.
I'm not gonna squeal out that this is my 23rd retirement, my real, real retirement. But you know there comes a time where you need to look to go in another direction in life, and I have entered that time.
You have not just weekly ratings, but minutes where they say during a show, 'This guy's boring, get him off.' This has produced a thing in our society where we have no shame and the worst offense is to be boring.
It's been a wonderful, wonderful career. It's been just a great run that the Lord gave me and I damn sure appreciate it and thank Him for it and for Him giving me the body and the ability to do what I have done for years.
Ric Flair is a wonderful person, and he was such a great in-ring performer. He had a great deal to do with the direction of the business. There are great characters that have come into this business, but Flair can't be duplicated.
Stan Hansen was a tough-as-nails freshman middle linebacker when I was a senior at West Texas State. He was a damn good football player, but he developed some problems with his knees. When football didn't work out he asked me about professional wrestling.