Ricky Steamboat Quotes

Ricky Steamboat

Profession : Writer

Birth : February 28, 1953

Competition has always been good.

Ricky Steamboat

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

Ricky Steamboat

I was in the business for 20 years and look at Flair. He was probably approaching 35-40. But today, if a guy has good 8-10 year run, he is either considered that damn good or lucky.

Ricky Steamboat

You can have a good run for several years with one company and then be able to extend it with another.

Ricky Steamboat

When I started in the business, getting in the ring, most nights I'd look across at a 15-20 year veteran. And every night, he would take me to school.

Ricky Steamboat

Guys like myself and Arn Anderson, we're always trying to pass knowledge along.

Ricky Steamboat

Every match should have a story in it and I see a lot of that lacking. I see a lot of guys doing a lot of good stuff, and I call it stuff, filling in the blanks in their match, but the stuff doesn't tie in.

Ricky Steamboat

The phrase that I use a lot is you've got to connect the dots and keep connecting them up to the finish.

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When I take a moment and listen to the wrestling fans and they're shouting, 'C'mon Ricky, you can do it!' It helps me in my heart to know that there are people out there who paid good money to watch guys like us go out there and perform.

Ricky Steamboat

I like to listen to the crowd, I really do. The crowd helps give me that extra boost of adrenaline.

Ricky Steamboat

The fans have always played a major role for me and have helped me do what I need to do in the ring.

Ricky Steamboat

The fans can bring a better match by getting more involved. So when a match is over, they might be talking about how good the match was, but little do they know, that great match was elevated because of them.

Ricky Steamboat

The matches that I've been involved with as a referee, sometimes the heel likes to get up in my face a little bit and even at 65 years old, I don't put up with that crap. Most times or not, the poor guy gets chopped down a few times.

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I feel that we really had some good, athletic women wrestling out there and they work just as hard as the guys and put on a heck of a show.

Ricky Steamboat

I'll say there's a lot of good athletes out there, but the key thing that I see missing is being able to put it all together in order to tell a story. In every match you can tell a story.

Ricky Steamboat

I remember the first couple of years when I was coming up through the ranks, some of the old-timers would take me aside after the match and critique me.

Ricky Steamboat

Fans watching need to be able to connect the dots in your match and the story that you're trying to tell.

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

Ricky Steamboat

I'm back in the gym doing squats. I still do the old school stuff. I'm just not concerned about putting the weight on as much as just going through the motions to keep things lubricated and stretched out.

Ricky Steamboat

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

Ricky Steamboat