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I fondly recall an interview The Nature Boy gave before he was going to wrestle Sting for the heavyweight championship belt for the Nth time in the NWA (or was that UWA?) back in the late 80's. Went like this:

"Sting ... oh STING. You've been calling for me punk! Well here I am in all my magnificance. WHOOOOOO The Nature Boy!!!!"

You could gage an interview by how big Ric's veins grew on his face. Looked like he was going to explode in half of them.

I could never figure out how Telly Blanchard became a member of the four horsemen. Always seemed out of place to me.

I'm trying to recall if there was a match that didn't have Ric doing a handstand flip over the turnbuckle to land on the apron followed up by his opponent knocking him down to the floor.

Razorback-Bert:"Or the greatest worst wrestler."

The Man (note capitalization) is 55 years old, has been doing this for 30 years, rehabbed from a broken back after a plane crash, worked for nearly every U.S. promotion, has put over everyone he's worked with (if they had any iota of talent), is worshipped by everyone in the business while remaining personally humble, will impart advice to anyone unless he's due in the ring and is probably the only other man McMahon takes seriously.
The climb to the corner turn-buckle only to be caught and flipped to mid-ring is the longest running joke in the business, on purpose. It also wouldn't be a Flair match if he didn't take a good-looking whack only to take two groggy steps and sommersault forward onto his back. Other wrestlers marvel how he can lay chops in that reverberate across an arena while barely making their skin redden.
I'm not a "mark" for Ric for what he appears to do for the unobservant types, I like him for what he really does on and off the stage. He's pretty much sacrificed his life for our entertainment. The least we can do is buy the 3-disk DVD career retrospective out now (if you can find it. It's the most popular non-movie right now.)

Telly (actually Tully) Blanchard was a member of the Four Horsemen by virtue of the fact that he held the Tag Team Belts with Arn Anderson. At the time the Horsemen first came together, they held the World Heavyweight Title, U.S. Heavyweight Title, and the Tag Team Titles -- thus, the Four (four belts) Horsemen.