Bob Backlund

Wrestler

1949-08-14

Books by Bob Backlund

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Bruno Sammartino is the greatest wrestling champion ever in the world. I wrestled more than he did but he was a strong man, he pushed a lot, threw people around and he was the greatest. I actually did more wrestling maneuvers then he did but that wasn't his thing.
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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.
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That's how I got started in the wrestling business. I was broke, I was homeless, and I was sleeping in the trunk of my car. It made me very conscious to never try to live beyond my means or try to keep up with the Joneses.
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I wanted to be bad because the good guys were lying, cheating and swearing. Let me be bad by being good and I became a bad guy by being a good person.
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Billy Superstar Graham dropped the WWF title to me, and that had the biggest influence because it changed my life.
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I was the last person anyone expected to become WWF champion. I didn't get involved with characters. I didn't have big muscles. But I had intuitiveness and stick-to- it-iveness, and the desire to rise to the top.
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You have to stand up and you have to walk to walk or you're not the man. You don't walk the walk, that's the most important thing about being WWF champion or any champion at all.
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