Quotes About Wrestling

I've really enjoyed working with Brody King and PCO, and offering a different side of 'The Villain' to the audience.

The WWE has the largest amount of eyes on it and is the biggest wrestling company in the world. It would be a huge honor for myself to work there, but am I going to be given the same 'Villain' mic time?

The Villain wasn't necessarily something I sat down and thought, 'Oh this is going to be my character.' It's most like other great wrestling characters, where it's more of a reflection of my actual character.

'The Villain' gets off on the idea of disgusting the crowd and then telling the crowd to keep the noise down while he does it. The reason it works is because it comes at a point in matches where the anxiety shows.

To have a record crowd for What Culture, to be in there with Kurt Angle and not to be just, like, Kurt Angle plus garnish, for it instead to be Kurt Angle v. Cody Rhodes, our second match, actually - it was very vindicating. It's also nice, you know: the greatest revenge in all the world is success, so it's nice to be vindicated.

I'm very violent in the ring. I don't know if it's the Italian temper, I can get very nasty in there. But outside, I'm the easiest-going guy in the world.

Say the average arena is 20,000 people. You're in the very center of that arena, and you're playing to the worst seat in the house up there. So everything is very big, very large. It's like a very violent form of Broadway in a 20x20 ring.

The wrestling experiences I've had, the understanding I have of my body, that stuff has allowed me to excel.

At home, I think the largest crowd I ever wrestled was in front of 500 people.

I tell everybody all the time: I had a 25-year wrestling career, and I'm most known for laughing.

In wrestling, I'll lay on my back for anybody 1-2-3.

I have this connection, but I want my story, my legacy, not the same as Eddie Guerrero, not the same as Rey Mysterio, different.

Becky Lynch, what she's accomplished inside and outside the ring. She's 'The Man' and a legend in the making.

We always tell everyone that women's wrestling has always been told through the lens of a man because it's a male-dominated industry. It's never been told through the lens of a woman and we want to be able to tell that story.

There was a period of time early in my career where I was like, 'I'm gonna definitely fight. I definitely want to be a part of this lifestyle.' Then there was a period of time where I had so much success in the sport of wrestling, and I was like, 'I don't really need fighting.'

Haystacks Calhoun has never been lifted because he has never been in the ring with Bruno Sammartino.

I'm almost certain that no one at featherweight or lightweight wants to go to the ground with me.

Yeah, I've been a wrestling fan. I probably got back into it when I was 16, 17. But I was a wrestling fan since I was a little girl. I used to watch it with my dad and my brother.

Ever since I was a little kid the only thing I've ever wanted to do was be in the WWE, and not just be on the roster but to be a champion.

I had a long career that started when I was 17. I wrestled for 20 years, so people forget how long I actually wrestled for.

Michael Hayes was the one that brought me up to be part of ECW. I had long hair, a braided goatee.

I have so many memories of working with Dara Singh, but that was a long time ago.

I have a lot of history with Eric Young, he actually trained me in the very beginning of my career. We go back a very long way.

Pretty much my entire life has been played out in front of wrestling fans, even the stuff - I guess you could say the legend and lore - which has grown.