Terry Funk

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

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I take Energol to improve my wind and stamina.

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Stan Hansen was a tough-as-nails freshman middle linebacker when I was a senior at West Texas State. He was a damn good football player, but he developed some problems with his knees. When football didn't work out he asked me about professional wrestling.

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My first match was against Sputnik Monroe at the Amarillo Sports Arena. It was scheduled for only ten minutes. Sputnik got me down and was on top of me for the first eight minutes. My father came running down to the ring and yelled for me to get up. I don't know how I got up but I did. I was a lot more scared of my father than I was Sputnik.

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

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

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You have not just weekly ratings, but minutes where they say during a show, 'This guy's boring, get him off.' This has produced a thing in our society where we have no shame and the worst offense is to be boring.

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In order to make a name for myself I took notice of the craziest wildest son-of-a-guns out there, and how they would receive a lot of the attention from the local wrestling periodicals. I decided that I would become an oddity, and that's how I have existed ever since.

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

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

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Quotes by Terry Funk