Quotes by Ric Flair

I have had the greatest wrestling career in the history of pro wrestling.

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!

I tell everyone in the world that I have always been the best father I could be and that I was the worst husband. Wooo!

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

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

My God, thank you. Thank you very much. I'm almost embarrassed by the response, but when I see this, I know that the twenty five years that I've spent trying to make you happy every night

of your life was worth every damn minute of it.

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

I do close to 30 minutes in cardio at a very high rate. I raise the level of intensity. I do a level 18 on the elliptical at four miles an hour for 20 minutes. That's 360 calories. I want to see someone else try that. The resistance factor at 18 is brutal. No one goes to 20.

Diamonds are forever, and so is Ric Flair!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The old saying is: 'Time off is a wrestler's worst enemy.'

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.

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

You gotta have a pocket square, I think.

It's much more casual than it was, but my clothes and my ring attire -- I thought up half of what I brought to the show.

The guy who could be me, but he knows when to draw the line, is John Cena. John Cena can rock 'n' roll, let me tell you.

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

First of all, Vince McMahon doesn't argue -- he tells you!

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

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.

I was really good at being a bad guy; I like that role. Not being bad to people -- just talking bad.

I spent more money on one robe than guys spend in five years.

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

To be the man, you gotta beat the man!

In order to be the man, you have to beat the man.

For me, it's about camaraderie. My whole life is like, if something's going on, nothing ever preceded fun. I always put my friends and the fun and the business ahead of everything.

I feel great. I had a blood clot. It was a bad deal. But when I look at my friends with hip replacements, knee replacements, shoulder replacements, neck surgeries, back surgeries, I'll take the blood clot.

Miami was always a town that was kind to me as a wrestler. It's a great wrestling town, and it's a great town, period. There's so much to do in Miami.

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

I'm Ric Flair! The Stylin', profilin', limousine riding, jet flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin' n' dealin' son of a gun!

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

Without your health, you've got nothing going on. I thank God every day for good health.

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

I was really good at being a bad guy.

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

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

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.