Words matter. These are the best Dusty Rhodes Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’ve wined and dined with kings and queens, and I’ve slept in the alley eating pork and beans.
The business is my life, the ring my salvation, the locker room and roads my nourishment.
One night in 1974, I made the comment, ‘Here I am, this fat kid, the son of a plumber. I don’t look like a body builder; fist fight in a parking lot, it doesn’t matter. I’m getting ready to sell out this building. I’m going to sell out Madison Square Garden one day. This is the American Dream. I’m living it.’
At the time when I started, coming out of football, I always used a forearm or an elbow. When it became Bionic is when I said it was Bionic. I went to some secret doctor in Istanbul who put some Bionic stuff in there.
I wasn’t always Rhodes, but I was always Dusty. I was never called Virgil – not by my family, not by my friends. Even my teachers at school didn’t call me Virgil.
Believability and respect are two of the main ingredients in professional wrestling that are sorely missing today.
For as long as I can remember, my nickname was Dusty. I remember my dad naming me that because of the streets where we lived.
I don’t want to be someone saying ‘Hey, why don’t you use my boy?’ You can ask Mr. McMahon or anybody. Never once. Cody calls his own shots.
If I’m selling, I want them all selling in the audience. If I’m coming back, I want them all coming back. If I’m bleeding, I want them bleeding. If I win, they win. If I lose, they lose.
One of the regrettable things in my life is that my dad was not around to see my stardom, to see me wrestle or to see what I achieved by the dream I had at an early age, influenced by where he would like to go.
I can’t explain it, but from the first day I stepped into a wrestling ring, I knew that one day I was going to be a big superstar. I knew that one day I would be the NWA World Heavyweight Champion like my hero, Lou Thesz.
There’s nothing like being a Texan, and I’m proud to be one.
When I became ‘The American Dream,’ they needed a hero down here. I had no money – I couldn’t buy a car without being tied under – but I had to have a Cadillac with blue stars on the hood no matter what it cost because just driving in it will set how they look at me and perceive this guy; they’ll know.
I love teaching. I love coaching. I love teaching communications class. I love giving back to the kids and the industry.
Hard times are when a man has worked at a job for 30 years – 30 years – and they give him a watch, kick him in the butt, and say, ‘Hey, a computer took your place, daddy.’ That’s hard times!
My mom was from Germantown and was of German descent. She was a real force behind me and my dream. She was always my biggest fan, even when I was wrestling at an early age.
What takes Hollywood weeks and months to film takes professional wrestlers and the companies behind them literally minutes to put together. A spontaneous explosion of emotion unleashed before your very eyes.
The combination of old and new is what every wrestling organization should be like. That way, you have a chance to match up the legends in dream main events.
