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You pay your dues and work your way up through the system, whatever system there is – something guys in the business today don’t really understand, don’t have a clue.

Michaela Coel

I can’t explain it, but from the first day I stepped into a wrestling ring, I knew that one day I was going to be a big superstar. I knew that one day I would be the NWA World Heavyweight Champion like my hero, Lou Thesz.
MICHAELA COEL

Day Explanation Heroes Myself Stardom
My mom was from Germantown and was of German descent. She was a real force behind me and my dream. She was always my biggest fan, even when I was wrestling at an early age.
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Age Early Force Mom Reality
What takes Hollywood weeks and months to film takes professional wrestlers and the companies behind them literally minutes to put together. A spontaneous explosion of emotion unleashed before your very eyes.
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Company Emotion Explosion Eyes Movie Time Togetherness
There’s nothing like being a Texan, and I’m proud to be one.
MICHAELA COEL

Oneself Proud
You look at driving down the road, night after night, tryin’ to make a town, getting $25 – that’s hard times. It’s our duty to make it good times for the fans that pay their money to see us perform each and every night.
MICHAELA COEL

Drive Money Night Performance Road Time Yourself
Terry Funk. Any time I got to wrestle with him, it was cool. Superstar Billy Graham was another one.
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Oneself Stardom Time Wrestle
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.
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Father Live Name Remember Street
The business is my life, the ring my salvation, the locker room and roads my nourishment.
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Business Life Myself Nourishment Salvation
They say behind every successful man is a powerful woman. And there is no more powerful performer I would rather be in the ring with for a conversation than Stephanie McMahon.
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Man Myself Performance Powerful Rings Success
I’ve wined and dined with kings and queens, and I’ve slept in the alley eating pork and beans.
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Dine King Myself Sleep Wine
I love teaching. I love coaching. I love teaching communications class. I love giving back to the kids and the industry.
MICHAELA COEL

Class Communication Industry Love Myself Teacher
If I’m selling, I want them all selling in the audience. If I’m coming back, I want them all coming back. If I’m bleeding, I want them bleeding. If I win, they win. If I lose, they lose.
MICHAELA COEL

Audience Blood Lose Myself Sale Win
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.
MICHAELA COEL

Call Friendship Identity Myself Personality Teacher
If I could not be in this free and wonderful country – I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else, mind you – Mexico is where I would live. I love Mexico, and I love the Mexican people.
MICHAELA COEL

Freedom Mindset Myself People Wonderful
I admit, I don’t look like the athlete of the day’s supposed to look. My belly’s just a little big, my heinie’s just a little big, but, brother, I am bad, and they know I’m bad.
MICHAELA COEL

Athlete Bad Brother Day Myself
Hard times are when a man has worked at a job for 30 years – 30 years – and they give him a watch, kick him in the butt, and say, ‘Hey, a computer took your place, daddy.’ That’s hard times!
MICHAELA COEL

Computer Father Hard Time Himself Man Place Work
Dick Murdoch is a true Hall of Famer.
MICHAELA COEL

Fame Hall True
You pay your dues and work your way up through the system, whatever system there is – something guys in the business today don’t really understand, don’t have a clue.
MICHAELA COEL

Business Clue Pay Understand Way Yourself
Believability and respect are two of the main ingredients in professional wrestling that are sorely missing today.
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Believe Day Missing Professional Wrestle
One of the regrettable things in my life is that my dad was not around to see my stardom, to see me wrestle or to see what I achieved by the dream I had at an early age, influenced by where he would like to go.
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Achievement Age Father Himself Influence Life Regret See
At the time when I started, coming out of football, I always used a forearm or an elbow. When it became Bionic is when I said it was Bionic. I went to some secret doctor in Istanbul who put some Bionic stuff in there.
MICHAELA COEL

Doctor Football Myself Secret Start Time
The combination of old and new is what every wrestling organization should be like. That way, you have a chance to match up the legends in dream main events.
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Combination Dreams Event Legend Organization

You pay your dues and work your way up through the system, whatever system there is – something guys in the business today don’t really understand, don’t have a clue.

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