Ric Flair Quotes

Diamonds are forever, and so is Ric Flair!

I had my first 'Survivor Series' in 1991 and I was fortunate enough to be an instrumental part of the shows I was on.

Whether you like it or not, learn to love it, because its the best thing going. Wooooo!

I'm gonna walk down the aisle in style and profile.

To be the World Champion in 1981 was a huge honour.

To be that man, you've got to beat the man. Woooo!

To be the man, you gotta beat the man!

None of this was written to hurt anybody's feelings.

I like Manchester, Birmingham. I really find this place very nice. Loved Australia. I thought that was awesome.

I've always been a very good heel!

I laugh a lot in the ring when I'’m having fun.

We only work… the most I ever work is three days a week. Very rare that I will work four. If I’'m involved in a scenario where they need me to be in it, I don'’t mind. They always work around my children’s schedule, their sports, and stuff like that. That’s been very important to me.

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

Hell you're Shawn Michaels! The greatest wrestler of all time!

Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.

I don’t think there’s anything positive in the WCW brand at all. It was dead when they brought it. They were going to bury us when they did business.

I was really good at being a bad guy.

I thought Chris Benoit was worthy of being a Horseman. I thought Dean Melinko was. Obviously I thought Steven Michael was, though obviously he was inexperienced, I thought he was a perfect fit as a horseman. I did not like the Paul Roma deal. I did not like Sid Vicious or about two or three guys that they put in there, I just couldn’t see it. I couldn’t stomach it, but I had to.

I'm every woman's dream and every man's nightmare.

I think my fondest memories would be with Sting, and Steamboat, Dusty and er… I made a lot of money wrestling Wahoo McDaniel and Jack Mulligan too. It’d be hard to pinpoint one.

My shoes are worth more......than your house!

My problem is that I think everybody needs to work as hard as I worked when I was in my prime.

Whenever I hear the crowds going WOOOOO!! It makes me feel very good, it means I've worked very hard and earned a lot of respect, each night I go out there I go out there for the fans to make them smile, or make them cry.

I can’t think of any negative [aspects of working in the wrestling industry]. The positive are the money, the comradery, the prestige, the notoriety. A lot of pluses.

People think it’s hard to travel to the airports. 9/11 has made our travel difficult, with the security laws and that. As far as comparing what we do to driving 3,000 miles a week, making fifty bucks a night, sometimes one hundred bucks a night, it’s a lot different. Guaranteed contracts, first class air fare, Hilton hotels in London, Champaign. Waddaya want? What more could you ask for!

If you're a man, you don't cry about it, you take life, the ups and downs; if you're a real man you never go down, you just stay up!

It’s so hard for me to sit back here in this studio, looking at a guy out here, hollering my name!—When last year I spent more money, on spilled liquor, in bars from one side of this world to the other, than you made! You’re talking to the Rolex wearing, diamond ring wearing, kiss stealing, whoa! wheelin dealin’, limosuine riding, jet flying son of a gun and I’m having a hard time holding these alligators down!

This ain't no garden party, brother, thisis wrestling, where only the strongest survive.

I don'’t think there was one. I can'’t name one. Not because I had a lot of great feuds, but it would be hard to say the defining feud.

I’'d love to see Sting come back. The guys that had the potential to make any money and draw any money, they came. The ones that made it, made it, and the ones that didn’'t, didn’'t. The list of those who made it, there’s lots… the list of those who didn'’t make it are longer then the ones who did.

It's the greatest show on earth. It's unbelievable.

Which new wrestlers do I think will be the franchise wrestlers? Erm, well Batista and Randy Orton will I think, for sure.

I've had more world championships than you've had women!

In my life, I've been a movie star, a rock star, and a sports star, all wrapped up into one-and worked harder at it than anybody else.

If wrestling can be considered an art form, then [Ric Flair] is using oils, and the many others merely water colors.

We used to wrestle every night, 385 times a year. For ten years. 365 days. Never had any holidays off, ever. Holidays were always two-day venues. Two event venues. Afternoon and night.

To be a man you've gotta beat the man.

I bleed like nobody else.

When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.

All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.

There was only a handful of guys who were even qualified to work at the WWE.

I love the military. They don’t get nearly enough credit for all the hard work they do to protect us, keep us in a safe place so we can enjoy ourselves every day.

I didn’t have any plans to become a wrestler until about a year before I started.

My kids are my main hobby but, now they’ve gotten older, they’ve forced me to do things without them. I do a lot of things with my boat. My wife and I enjoy boating.

I was always a fan but me and Kevin Pattero, he was a friend of mine who trained for the Olympic games in 1972… he and I became very close friends and roommates and I kind of rode his coattails into the business.

Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line.

I enjoyed my time as Raw Co-Owner. Actually I got beat more! I got beat up a lot as Co-owner but it was ok.

If you don't like it, learn to love it!