Quotes About Challenges

It's been a long road for me coming from NXT. I've been with NXT for almost four years, and just getting to WWE, and now being able to travel with them, I kind of have to make new friends and get hotel rooms and travel in different cities every single night. It's very different, but it's so much fun.

WCW and WWE were two totally different environments. A lot of guys in WCW were making a lot of money, and the work schedule wasn't that hard. You had to earn it in WWE.

From a boy who left university as a student straight to WWE - those experiences, those ups and downs in life and work shaped the wrestler and man I am today.

It would have been very hard to grow if I hadn't stepped outside the WWE bubble and gain a clear perspective on everything.

I've been very fortunate - not many people have left WWE and then had the chance to reinvent themselves.

We have so many different lives outside of the WWE, it's cool that people get to see all the different lifestyles and struggles we all have.

The road to WrestleMania leads us in so many directions, but we have so many amazing things we get to do as WWE Superstars along the way.

I've been on the other side where I know that a bad day at WWE beats the best day at Staples.

I think the locker room gives you tough skin and that can only help in every aspect of life, not just in WWE.

Spending so much time on the road is the biggest challenge for me with WWE. I've missed weddings and births. I've spent a lot of time away from my friends and family for so many years. That part is really hard.

When I first came into WWE, I got asked to change my hair to blonde just because I was a brand new girl and the Bella Twins had really dark hair and they were Mexican-Italian too so WWE didn't want me to get lost in the mix and start thinking there was a triplet in the mix.

I'm on the road more than 250 days a year for the WWE. It can be challenging to find time to work out.

Walking into the WWE I was brand new; I did not know how things worked. Deep down I wanted everyone to cheer and adore me but this is the WWE where it doesn't work that way all the time.

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

I had a good run with the WWF. A lot of good matches, a lot of fun.

There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.

I wouldn't coach football now for nothing, and it's because of social media. That just bothers the heck out of me. People blast ya and you don't put their name down.

YA fiction tends to have a finite quality. You're looking toward a goal - prom or graduation or revolution - and we leave these characters after a moment of tremendous transformation.

A 150 foot yacht quickly becomes very small when you are out to sea and someone goes bonkers, for whatever reason.

Things are bad in 2001 at Yahoo. There's been layoffs, restructuring, lots of people left.

My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life.

But there is a process that happens when you're making something, be it a musical or a new play. That process takes time, and mistakes will be made along the way, and you will go down and hit dead ends. But it is so public now. Any yahoo with a computer can start a firestorm.

I think Yahoo has been doing so many things well for so long and, frankly, got a little trapped in, I think, 'Oh, what is Yahoo?'