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Wikipedia Summary for Ric Flair
Richard Morgan Fliehr (born February 25, 1949), better known as Ric Flair, is an American professional wrestling manager and retired professional wrestler. Regarded by multiple peers and journalists as the greatest professional wrestler of all time, Flair had a career that spanned almost 40 years.
He is noted for his tenures with Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later WWE) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). Much of his career was spent in JCP and WCW, where he won numerous titles. Since the mid-1970s, he has used the moniker "The Nature Boy". A major pay-per-view attraction throughout his career, Flair headlined the premier annual NWA/WCW event, Starrcade, on ten occasions, while also co-headlining its WWF counterpart, WrestleMania, in 1992, after winning that year's Royal Rumble. PWI awarded him their Wrestler of the Year award a record six times, while Wrestling Observer Newsletter named him the Wrestler of the Year (an award named after him and Lou Thesz) a record eight times. The first two-time WWE Hall of Fame inductee, first inducted with the class of 2008 for his individual career and again with the class of 2012 as a member of The Four Horsemen, he is also a member of the NWA Hall of Fame, and the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Flair is officially recognized by WWE as a 16-time world champion (8-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, 6-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, and two-time WWF Champion), although the number of his world championship reigns varies by source, ranging from 16 to 25. He has claimed to be a 21-time champion. He was the first holder of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship and the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship (which he also held last). As the inaugural WCW World Heavyweight Champion, he became the first person to complete WCW's Triple Crown, having already held the United States Heavyweight and World Tag Team Championships. He then completed WWE's version of the Triple Crown when he won the Intercontinental Championship, after already holding the WWF Championship and the World Tag Team Championship.
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.
Diamonds are forever, and so is Ric Flair!
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 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. Itd 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.
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 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.
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.
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I was really good at being a bad guy; I like that role. Not being bad to people -- just talking bad.
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.