Quotes from Gail Kim

But that's my point on intergender wrestling - I don't like to see things where a man is going to punch a woman. I just think about the kids that are watching. I take that into consideration.

I heard many times that they want the Divas to be girly. They didn't care about the heel girls getting any heat. We just didn't understand. They did everything in their power, it seemed, to take everything to give us a good match, for the heels to get any heat. It was no kicking one week, or no punching the next. No this, no that.

It's so frustrating to be working so hard and know that it's not going anywhere and it doesn't matter.

Of course, I wrestled in Windsor for Scott D'Amore's promotion way back in my very early days. That was at the very, very beginning, when I was working under a mask as La Felina.

I feel that I've worked so hard to gain the respect of the fans and my co-workers.

I want racial and gender equality.

I think we were in London for TV and David Hasselhoff was guest host of 'Raw'. We had the match where we did the slo-mo entrance run. It was really funny.

I've always known of ROH and have worked with a lot of the workers there, but they've never reached out to me. It's just never happened. But I'm always open to everything.

I like to lean on making wrestling the most believable, realistic form of entertainment as possible for the most part.

Oh my gosh, women have it so much harder than men. If you ask me the differences are professional as well as physical.

The true wrestling fans that watch TNA Impact, I think they've always known. I don't want to say they take it for granted in anyway, but they always just know that TNA and Impact Wrestling are going to give them women's wrestling.

Impact has always been a great place for camaraderie and feeling like a family.

I've lived a gypsy life and wouldn't know any other way to live.

Why would you have a seven-hour show? The fans are going to be so tired halfway through the show.

I've noticed a huge difference in my energy level cutting out the red meat. It's crazy.

Broken Matt Hardy was born in Impact Wrestling and I think he had great memories.

Canadians have better chocolates, better candy, better flavors of chips. And Tim Horton's of course.

The culture or environment of a company starts from the top. The leadership. The leadership of a company sends a message to its employees of what is tolerated and what is not.

Myself and every Knockout in the company at the beginning worked so hard to build up a credible women's division in TNA so finally holding the title meant so much to me.

Of course, having that confidence of having the fans behind you in your hometown is always special.

I know that as a performer how much we rely on the fans for how we feel and react.

I never wanted the fans to remember me as anything but my best.

Once I started to retire, I was telling all of the girls in my generation, 'Wow I feel like an outsider in this locker room because this whole new generation of women has stepped in,' and that was one of the signs where I said maybe it's time to retire.

I'm just glad when I was fighting for us to wrestle I would always have people tell me, 'Gail, women's wrestling is for the bathroom breaks, you know they really don't want to see it.' I would get discouraged a little bit but I was very adamant, so I'm glad that we girls proved them wrong.