Wrestling Quotes by Ricky Steamboat

Wrestling has been a very big part of my life.

— Ricky Steamboat

You know I'm very happy with WWE, the company in which I still work.

— Ricky Steamboat

I can remember that my match with Savage at WM3 lasted less than 20 minutes.

— Ricky Steamboat

When you get two guys that gel together, you can feel greatness in the ring.

— Ricky Steamboat

I learned so much from Ric Flair... just listening to him guide me early in my career.

— Ricky Steamboat

There are so many young fans out there who have only seen me wrestle on tape.

— Ricky Steamboat

The WWE has a great school in Orlando and most of the trainers are of my upbringing.

— Ricky Steamboat

When I went to WWE, the level of work I put out every night was just balls to the wall.

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I'm happy to see NXT grow. Everything they are doing, they are going in the right direction.

— Ricky Steamboat

I worked with Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Bray Wyatt. Those guys have come along and are doing very well now.

— Ricky Steamboat

Flair was a guy who 90 percent of your match was called on the fly, while Savage was a guy who had…

— Ricky Steamboat

A lot of guys would say that I was like a 'damn chameleon'. It doesn't matter who you are in the ring…

— Ricky Steamboat

I feel that we really had some good, athletic women wrestling out there and they work just as hard as the guys…

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I know one thing, after the match with Savage at Wrestlemania III, I was gassed. I went back to the locker room…

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The one thing I'll never forget is the fan base. Without them, there would be no WWE. There would be no wrestling.

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I always felt that whatever I was asked to do that my ability in the ring would speak for itself.

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Whenever two guys got together, you asked, 'What body part would you like to work?' In my case, it was the arm.…

— Ricky Steamboat

I've got 8 and 10 year old kids telling me about the match I had with Savage at WrestleMania III and that…

— Ricky Steamboat

Before, there were only four pay per views throughout the whole year. Guys who were doing soap opera storylines could build them…

— Ricky Steamboat

A lot of guys, if they're a face and they see their drawing ability start to falter, they'll turn heel and they're…

— Ricky Steamboat

If you think of the guys that I was in the ring with, when I looked across the ring at the other…

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I learned early on as a baby-face you had adapt to their style. Ravishing Rick Rude had his own style and his…

— Ricky Steamboat

I understand that wrestling now has changed as opposed to what it was when I worked, but I still think you can…

— Ricky Steamboat

I don't like to use the word 'fake.' A lot of our stuff is choreographed. But there is a lot of physicality…

— Ricky Steamboat

I'd like to work with Seth Rollins, and I'd put him over right in the middle.

— Ricky Steamboat

I had a good run with the WWF. A lot of good matches, a lot of fun.

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You can feel greatness in the ring. You can get two guys that gel together and it's just like poetry or a…

— Ricky Steamboat

I honestly think that we're getting away from the basic structure of wrestling and it causes wrestlers' careers to come up short…

— Ricky Steamboat

There are fans out there who have never seen Andre The Giant wrestle but have heard the name and heard stories about…

— Ricky Steamboat

The doctors have said that they don't want me in the ring bouncing around or getting picked up and slammed down. They…

— Ricky Steamboat

Whenever you do big stuff in the ring - a big move or a big hit - you have to let that…

— Ricky Steamboat

I just wanted to experience what it felt like on the other side of the fence. As we all know, the heels…

— Ricky Steamboat

I've wrestled in Hamilton and Toronto and the fans have always received me well there... It's always been one of my favorite…

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When I started in the business, getting in the ring, most nights I'd look across at a 15-20 year veteran. And every…

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Who would have thought that Shane McMahon would have any kind of a chance versus Undertaker?

— Ricky Steamboat

I think of myself as rarity in the business, and one of the reasons is that I wrestled my entire career as…

— Ricky Steamboat

On my wish list, a guy I would have loved to work with in our prime would have been Shawn Michaels.

— Ricky Steamboat

I would have to say Ric Flair and Randy Savage were two of my favorite guys to work with; I had some…

— Ricky Steamboat

The one moment above all that fans bring up from my career when they run into me is the Savage match. Here…

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Look at the talent that has broken through. Bray Wyatt, Roman Reigns, Sami Zayn, Cesaro. There are a number of talents there.…

— Ricky Steamboat