Quotes from Beth Phoenix

I started wrestling when I was 19 years old, and I spent my entire adult life on the road chasing this dream, and I loved it.

A beach date would be awesome, with like a little picnic basket, some fruit and bread - just something really, really relaxed and laid-back. I like just relaxing all day, maybe playing in the water a little bit. It's just totally a day to chill.

It takes a while to condition people to a different product, as opposed to what they're used to seeing.

I skipped N64, but I got it later when I was older. I got Game Cube first, then N64 after that actually.

I had an opportunity to work for the US Department of Probation in Buffalo.

I have to look my best, so I've been going to the gym, training extra hard. I've been doing all the things that Glamazons do to look as good as I do.

You can disagree with someone and still do business as a professional.

I'm a four-time champion. The second female to ever compete in the Royal Rumble, amongst many, many other accolades.

Chyna was the woman that made me say 'Whoa, I want to do something like that. I want to change the game.'

I got pregnant five or six months after I retired, and then it was off to the races! It was a complete change of gears, and I was refocusing my life on my family.

We're on the road 300 days a year. There's no recovery time. It's a test of your physical and mental endurance.

I would say at leaner times in the women's division, I feel like there were certain girls who tried to keep the torch going for women's wrestling. If I was one of those women then I feel like I did my job.

A boy on the team, who shall remain nameless, constantly picked on me during practice. I bided my time, and when I had the chance to wrestle him, I took every advantage I could. I bent fingers, dug my nails into his skin and rammed my elbow into various, tender, parts of him. I basically beat him down in front of the whole team.

What's the quality of my life? Often times, when you're in there, you're not thinking about that. You're thinking, 'I want this match at WrestleMania to be the most incredible thing anyone has ever seen.'

Things that used to be a glass ceiling aren't anymore. Now not only is it a possibility that women are going to main event WrestleMania, I know that they are going to do it.

When I was a wrestler, my job was mostly looking mean and throwing punches and kicks.

Being married to a wrestler has its unique challenges, being a wrestler married to a wrestler is next level.

In fact, I was voted Prom Queen by my classmates in my senior year. So I went from being a wrestler to the prom queen in a year.

I have two little girls. Who knows what they want to do in the future? But if they want to be wrestlers someday and I helped forge a path for them be more successful than it was all worth it.

They say that you never forget your first love and my first love was wrestling. My grandmother taught me wrestling, but it was not until Wrestlemania 10, Bret Hart Vs. Owen Hart, who made a work of art.

The 'Flex' shoot was incredibly amazing. It was a total dream come true for me, because it was my first media magazine of that sort outside of wrestling.

All the time I was in college, I was going to wrestling school on the weekends.

The first time I won a medal at a female wrestling tournament, all of the other girls there had coaches and family members cheering them on. I went in alone, said nothing, wrestled three girls and beat three girls - convincingly.

My entire life I've proved that I'm able to overcome people's negativity toward me.