“The Dirtiest Player of the Game” Ric Flair seems to have cheated the grim reaper. He’s a 16-time-world champion, a living legend in pro wrestling, and a guy who just got part of his bowel removed. Flair is currently recovering from surgery, what was originally suppose to clear out intestinal blockage instead led to part of The Nature Boy’s bowel being removed.
Last Saturday, Flair was rushed to an undisclosed hospital in Georgia. “The Nature Boy” has been in a medically-induced coma ever since. On August 14th, Flair underwent colon surgery.
Ric Flair spent four decades styling and profilin’, limousine riding, WOOOOO, jet flying, kissing stealing, wheelin’ n’ dealin’. He’s lived more in one night than some have lived in their lifetime. Let’s take a look The Nature Boy’s words of wisdom after 68 years on this planet…
Ric Flair Quotes: Best Quotes & Most-Famous Sayings
“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.”
“To be the man, you gotta beat the man!”
“I’m every woman’s dream and every man’s nightmare.”
“I spent more money on one robe than guys spend in five years.”
“I was really good at being a bad guy.”
“Without your health, you’ve got nothing going on. I thank God every day for good health.”
“I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.”
“All the woman want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.”
“If you don’t like it, learn to love it!”
“Do I feel like I’m 65? No. I feel like I’m 15. That’s my problem. I’m trying as hard as I can to act like I’m 65, but it’s very difficult.”
“My problem is that I think everybody needs to work as hard as I worked when I was in my prime.”
“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!”
“If you have notoriety, you can dress any way you want to dress. That’s the way it is. I just like to get dressed up. I think that they go hand in hand – notoriety and people lookin’ at ya. If they look at ya, either you look like a million dollars, or you don’t. A guy can have a phenomenal body, but if the suit doesn’t fit him, forget it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I bleed like nobody else.”
“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.”
“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.”
“First of all, Vince McMahon does argue – he tells you!
“You gotta have a pocket square, I think.”
“Richard Fliehr does not make any money.”
“I feel great. I had a blood clot. It was a bad deal. But when I look at my friends with hip replacements, knee replacements, shoulder replacements, neck surgeries, back surgeries, I’ll take the blood clot.”
“I do close to 30 minutes in cardio at a very high rate. I raise the level of intensity. I do a level 18 on the elliptical at four miles an hour for 20 minutes. That’s 360 calories. I want to see someone else try that. The resistance factor at 18 is brutal. No one goes to 20.”
“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.”
“I was really good at being a bad guy; I like that role. Not being bad to people – just talking bad.”
“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 have had the greatest wrestling career in the history of pro wrestling.”
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