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.
MICHAELA COELMy 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.
MICHAELA COELTerry Funk. Any time I got to wrestle with him, it was cool. Superstar Billy Graham was another one.
MICHAELA COELAt 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 COELI 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 COELWhat 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.
MICHAELA COELThey 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.
MICHAELA COELI 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 COELIf 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 COELThe business is my life, the ring my salvation, the locker room and roads my nourishment.
MICHAELA COELOne 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.
MICHAELA COELBelievability and respect are two of the main ingredients in professional wrestling that are sorely missing today.
MICHAELA COELI 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 COELI love teaching. I love coaching. I love teaching communications class. I love giving back to the kids and the industry.
MICHAELA COELYou 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 COELDick Murdoch is a true Hall of Famer.
MICHAELA COELThere’s nothing like being a Texan, and I’m proud to be one.
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