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- Nov 07, 2020
Dusty Rhodes Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Legends
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The business is my life, the ring my salvation, the locker room and roads my nourishment.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't know what hard times are, daddy. Hard times are when the textile workers around this country are out of work, they got 4 or 5 kids and can't pay their wages, can't buy their food. Hard times are when the autoworkers are out of work, and they tell 'em to go home.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love teaching. I love coaching. I love teaching communications class. I love giving back to the kids and the industry.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I admit, I don't look like the athlete of the day's supposed to look. My belly's just a little big, my heinie's just a little big, but, brother, I am bad, and they know I'm bad.
- Dined
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've wined and dined with kings and queens, and I've slept in the alley eating pork and beans.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
You look at driving down the road, night after night, tryin' to make a town, getting $25 - that's hard times. It's our duty to make it good times for the fans that pay their money to see us perform each and every night.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing like being a Texan, and I'm proud to be one.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could not be in this free and wonderful country - I wouldn't want to be anywhere else, mind you - Mexico is where I would live. I love Mexico, and I love the Mexican people.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believability and respect are two of the main ingredients in professional wrestling that are sorely missing today.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kevin Sullivan? He's Anthony Hopkins. The Prince of Darkness. The devil himself. Against the 'American Dream' Dusty Rhodes, the chubby plumber's son from Austin, Texas. My God, those billboards go up, and you're going to want to go see it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
They say behind every successful man is a powerful woman. And there is no more powerful performer I would rather be in the ring with for a conversation than Stephanie McMahon.
- Nov 07, 2020