Quotes from Gail Kim

I heard about 'GLOW,' but I found out a little too late. I kind of made a run of getting a role training the actresses to show them how to wrestle.

I just want everyone to remember me as a great wrestler, that's what I aim to do.

I consider myself more of a wrestler than a sports entertainer.

As far as I remember, I was always a big eater. I eat just as much as the wrestler guys.

Most of the time a wrestler misses the in-ring action, but because of my back and working with the girls as an agent, I don't miss it.

In terms of being honored at the TNA Hall of Fame, I think that's something that every pro wrestler dreams about.

Normally, with girls that I know in the business, they start off managing and then they become a wrestler, or they just stay as a manager who can wrestle, but I was always a wrestler.

I have lots of people tell me I'm beautiful and ask if I'm a model, but the biggest compliment I got was a fan came up to me and said, 'You're the best female technical wrestler.' That's the one compliment that sticks out.

I think all wrestlers, you never really want it to end.

I do find Twitter to be more negative than Instagram. Instagram is not so bad. I think it's because of the pictures and see a face where on Twitter people forget we are human beings.

I know people are going to be surprised to hear me say this because they think I'm such an advocate for women's wrestling... But I truly believe that the best time in wrestling, for me, was when I first got into WWE and they had a strong women's division and they also had girls who strengths weren't in the ring and were more for entertainment.

The WWE is the big company and the one the mainstream audience is watching, but I feel like if you were a hardcore wrestling fan, you were watching TNA.

WWE is basically scooping up all the talent and making it really difficult. They say they want competition and like competition, but I don't believe that. They are trying to make this a monopoly.

With the success of the TNA Knockouts, that's when they started having their girls wrestle a lot more in WWE. I thought, 'This is a perfect time for me to come in. They care about women's wrestling.' Sadly it was just not the case.

I would never take back winning the WWE Women's title for a moment, but winning the TNA Knockouts title meant a whole lot more to me.

I wish WWE had their own creative team for the girls. They could have an even stronger women's division.

People at WWE would say, 'It doesn't matter if you're the best wrestler,' but I would think about Dean Malenko and Chris Benoit and Rey Mysterio. They weren't necessarily the greatest talkers, but they were great wrestlers. I wanted to be that person.

Timing is everything in wrestling and when I was with the WWE it just wasn't the right time. I was unhappy and I decided to look for opportunities elsewhere.

WWE can say they don't watch Impact and TNA but I know that's a lie.

I don't think I could do the four or five days a week in the WWE. I feel bad for them.

I've experienced WWE twice now, and I know that I do not enjoy that place. The second time I really had optimistic hopes and dreams, but I know I would never go back there.

When I signed with WWE I was really happy that they had the PG thing going on. I thought, 'Yes! No more bra and panties matches, no bikini contests.'

When I joined the WWE, Dave 'Fit' Finley was our first agent that we worked with all the time and he brought in another form of aggression in me.

Ronda Rousey proved that women can be a draw and an attraction, so WWE followed in those footsteps.