Latest Ric Flair Quotes from Interviews

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

  Ric Flair

  Nice, Australia, Birmingham

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

• 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.

  Ric Flair

  Kids, Wife, Hobbies

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

• 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!

  Ric Flair

  Night, Thinking, Air

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

• 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.

  Ric Flair

  Memories, Wrestling, Thinking

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

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

  Ric Flair

  Thinking, Randy Orton, Wrestler

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

• 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.

  Ric Flair

  Thinking, Names, Defining

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

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

  Ric Flair

  Wwe, Guy, Qualified

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

• 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.

  Ric Flair

  Guy, Lists, Made

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

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

  Ric Flair

  Fun, Laughing, Having Fun

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

• 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.

  Ric Flair

  Thinking, Wcw, Brands

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

• 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.

  Ric Flair

  Sports, Children, Mind

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

• 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.

  Ric Flair

  Wrestling, Thinking, Negative

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

• 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.

  Ric Flair

  Holiday, Night, Two

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

• 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.

  Ric Flair

  Two, Perfect, Guy

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

• 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.

  Ric Flair

  Beats, Owners, My Time

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

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

  Ric Flair

  Champion, World, Honour

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

• 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.

  Ric Flair

  Games, Fans, Kevin

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

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

  Ric Flair

  Years, Wrestler, Plans

  Source: smackdown5.moonfruit.com

• 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.

  Ric Flair

  Mean, Night, Fans

  "Ric Flair Interview" by Josh Modaberi, www.cultofwhatever.com. January 7, 2013.