Quotes from Dusty Rhodes

Believability and respect are two of the main ingredients in professional wrestling that are sorely missing today.

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.'

The business is my life, the ring my salvation, the locker room and roads my nourishment.

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.

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.