Top 30 Terry Funk Quotes

I simply could not have done as well in either football or wrestling if I had not taken Energol.

When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be cowboys and Indians.

The guys that go into the Hall of Fame are the winners, and the losers are the ones who put them in there, and I would like to see some of the great losers through the years be in the Hall of Fame. I know that that’s probably impossible, but you’ve got to give those losers credit, they made the winners.

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.

The crowd is everything in my life. I just love the fans, and I also have a lot of respect for them. They’ve given me everything I have in my life.

It’s the fans that dictate what wrestling is. That’s the one constant from 1917 to 2017.

I still recall the first time I laid eyes on Ric. Dusty Rhodes and Dick Murdoch were wrestling, at the time, in Minnesota, and they took a liking to this kid who’d been hanging around the matches. That kid was Ric Flair, and they brought him to my ranch in Amarillo, Texas.

Jimmy Snuka was one of the great performers in the business. In ring performance wise he was phenomenal.

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.

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 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.

The truth of the matter is that Dusty Rhodes helped put more money in my pocket than anybody I’ve ever wrestled. In his time he was the most charismatic and talented performer in the business, and I know he doesn’t look like it, but he was a pretty good athlete too.

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.

Wrestling is truly my life, and I love being part of the professional wrestling world.

Boxing was not as big as wrestling in Japan, but people knew Leon Spinks.

I am sick and tired of Cassius Clay going around and saying he is the greatest and what a tremendous boxer he has been.

I crossed over into the WWE, but a lot of guys never did cross over.

I was supposed to be on the ‘All In’ show, but I can’t because of a problem with my abdominal hernia.

This goes to all the individuals out there, be in control of your business don’t let your business take control of you.

Wrestling is eye-opening because it’s constantly changing.

I turned pro as a wrestler a few days after my last football game.

In all my years I don’t think I’ve ever said anything nice about Dusty Rhodes to any member of the media.

I’ve loved wrestling from the first moment I stepped between the ropes. Don’t know where I’d be without it.

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.

My point was to always have my spectators leave saying ‘hot damn I got my money’s worth.’

Wrestling is all about the power of the individual.

Personally, I like to think I’m like my old man. I like to think I have the brains he did.

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.

My pop was in the business and he loved it very much. He actually went ahead and passed away while wrestling.

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.