Quotes from Terry Funk

I've got a thick skull and big, thick bones that don't break apart easily.

What is hardcore? Hardcore is not just being hardcore, hardcore is going in the ring and giving 100% of yourself. Hardcore is great fans.

In ECW, hardcore wrestling wasn't done just for the fun of it. It was done for a purpose, for a reason. And for me, it was done to exist and produce a revenue for my family.

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

I have a knack - and still do - where I can look at a guy and tell you if he's going to draw you money or not. That's very difficult to do. I haven't met too many people who can do that.

Do I feel confident about my health? I don't think that anybody ever should feel confident about their health if they are 72 years old, and getting ready to go in to the ring. If they are then they are probably some kind of an idiot and that is more than likely what I am.

I don't want to wrestle past 35. There's just too much physical strain with 250-pound men slamming into each other.

I was six years old and knew I wanted to be a wrestler.

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

That is the thing that wrestling is, we are who we are. Even when we are established we are not actors. We are wrestlers.

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.

Extreme rules, hardcore wrestling - whatever they want to call it - was born out of a necessity to survive.

You must be very creative in our business. Creating in this business is making something new, but it is also touching on something old.

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

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

Vince and WWE, they're not fresh. Yes, Vince does big business. They have the best talent in the world, but they have no fresh ideas. They should be selling out every arena.

It's easier to make the NFL than WWE.

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

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.

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've had my elbows operated on, both my knees are shot, I've got stitches everywhere.

Sometimes it's great to have a backbone, but you've got to be careful. Remember that sometimes, when you hurt your backbone, you can't get it fixed because you don't have enough money.

I don't want to die. The last thing I want to do is go in a wrestling ring with a bunch of people watching. I'd rather it be somewhere high up on a mountain. I don't need any fans there for that.

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.