Ric Flair Quotes

I have stupid neck. Look it up. You can look up 'stupid neck,' and it'll probably be a picture of my neck. Just do me a favor. Look it up, and you'll realize that the WWE will never clear me to compete again.

I greatly appreciate that people would like to see me have one more match or comeback or, 'Daniel Bryan got cleared, so why can't you?' I will never be cleared. Mine is a completely different injury. He had neck issues, but it wasn't his neck issues that retired him, actually. It was the concussion issues.

Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.

Bill Goldberg kicked me in the head and ended my career because he didn't know what he was doing.

That's why John Cena was No. 1 for so many years. Because every time John got in the ring with somebody, he made them better than they were.

I spent a lot of time wrestling at NXT. That was not seen because I was also an announcer. When you're an announcer, they try to protect you and make sure you don't get hurt or injured, or anything that would hinder you from your TV work.

I have a vision for what I want wrestling to be, and I was fortunate not just to have the opportunity to show my talents at the right time, and not just to have the right opponents, and not just to have the knowledge that the front office has faith in me, but also the good fortune not to get hurt in the middle of all this.

When I was at IMPACT and X Division Champion, my neck wasn't able to handle the workload and after losing the belt to Brian Cage in a match I just realized my neck just can't handle this anymore.

I don't think people realize how good Fit Finlay was. He was the best heel and probably the best worker I'd ever seen.

Bayley helped me a lot in my career, especially in NXT. I had some of my best NXT matches with her, and she definitely helped me develop as a talent, because you're just as good as the person you're in there with.

I'm hoping Big Cass gets a great singles' run and vice versa. We pull for each other in that regard.

Once I got my groove in WCW in '97, I'm pretty proud of the things I did there. By the time I got to WWE for DX, I may not have been as quick, but I was so far more well-rounded and a much more of a ring general.

I've been fortunate enough to be given the blessing by Triple H down at NXT to start coming out to the ring with a microphone in my hand.

Ricky Steamboat was one of the premier talents to ever be in this business and was one of the very best to have ever stepped in the ring.

I can go and fight, take one punch, and have a concussion and start having issues with it, or I can wrestle my entire career and never have a concussion. It's just a hazard of the business.

Most of the time a wrestler misses the in-ring action, but because of my back and working with the girls as an agent, I don't miss it.

Daniel Bryan is someone who I definitely think I can have good matches with.

As great as Hulk Hogan was, he still wasn't that great a worker.

Chris Jericho is a guy who I grew up really appreciating what he did in the ring.

I look at a guy like Velveteen Dream who has only been wrestling for a couple of years, and he's just filled with charisma, filled with talent.

At the end of the day, concussions are best dealt with between the drivers and their personal physicians.

After Team B.A.D. split and the Brand Extension, I got injured and took some time off.

I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.

They say I don't fight guys unless they're on a respirator. That's incorrect. They have to be at least 3 days off a respirator.

I'm here to say my legacy in The Octogon is over ... I re-signed last night with @WWE.