Bob Backlund Quotes

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Bob Backlund

Profession : Wrestler

Birth : August 14, 1949

We live in the greatest country in the world and there are opportunities out there. You can't stay at home with your parents and just sit there, you have to get out there and do it.

Bob Backlund

I didn't move for two years when I was born. I didn't play with the other kids.

Bob Backlund

I will be a role model, I wanna be a role model, and I will not cheat.

Bob Backlund

People want to loaf, but they didn't loaf when they were in the ring with me.

Bob Backlund

When I think about 'All American Boy' I think of someone that lives by the Golden Rule: treat people how you wanted to be treated. That's one of my rules in life.

Bob Backlund

I read a book in 2005 called 'Think and Grow Rich' that changed my life.

Bob Backlund

My dad was a drinker. My mom was busy trying to keep the family together. My ability in school was poor. I started, wanted to do sports. I wanted to work hard and get stronger.

Bob Backlund

It's not strength that counts but experience and technique.

Bob Backlund

When I go to the signings like at WrestleMania and people have the options of what they want me to do with them, and more often than not they want me to put them in the cross-face chicken wing.

Bob Backlund

When I got out of my hometown of Glastonbury, Connecticut, I became 'Mr. Backlund' and if someone did not call me Mr. Backlund I just kept walking. I demanded respect because I believe that in life that respect is so important, especially for kids to respect others.

Bob Backlund

Some wrestlers don't know how to wrestle, they are just entertainers.

Bob Backlund

The people in the Republican Party and the Democrat Party, I don't think they realized how many people out there that were good, basic Americans would support a wrestler getting into the political arena.

Bob Backlund

I was able to slowly climb to the top of the wrestling business thanks to the principles I learned in junior high and high school.

Bob Backlund

Let me be bad by being good and I became a bad guy by being a good person.

Bob Backlund

You can't stay at home with your parents and just sit there, you have to get out there and do it.

Bob Backlund

I loved wrestling.

Bob Backlund

When you have a set program in your match it gets old to do the same thing over and over and over again.

Bob Backlund

Andre the Giant and I had beers together a few times.

Bob Backlund

My relationship with Triple H has been fantastic. He has kept his word on everything that he has said to me and I respect him for that.

Bob Backlund

When you work out it makes you feel better. It became my life's blood. It keeps me going every day.

Bob Backlund