If a hotel has a microwave, I always get a sweet potato and make sure I have a fork and I can microwave a sweet potato. Seven minutes, and I can do that. You really learn how to eat on the road.
Gail Kim
I just want to be as good as I can be with any opponent I have and hear everyone say 'that was her best match ever.'
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.
People say women's wrestling sucks and nobody wants to see it, but every time there are storylines and they invest in the women, people react and love it.
For me, if I had a magical match that I was so proud of, and I had to work the same person after that again, it was always about topping that last thing and being the best.
To have the appreciation from your peers, the fans and the company you work for is the ultimate reward. For me, that has always been ultimate because respect has always been the most important thing to me in this business.
You know, in terms of accomplishments and things like that, I feel like I've accomplished what I've wanted.
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.
I wish WWE had their own creative team for the girls. They could have an even stronger women's division.
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 watched wrestling as a kid when I was younger, and then I kind of fell out of it, and then I started watching it again around my early 20s.
It's so frustrating to be working so hard and know that it's not going anywhere and it doesn't matter.
When I first saw 'Broken' Matt Hardy, I thought to myself, 'Umm...' I actually said to Jeremy Borash 'Why is he talking like that? Is he trying to make an accent and it's coming out really bad?' And then it kind of grows on you and it's just funny as hell, at least for me.
I think a lot of the time when you just see a lot of beautiful girls it kind of just all blends in together. You want something about yourself to stand out.
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.'
I was always into sports.
Oh my gosh, women have it so much harder than men. If you ask me the differences are professional as well as physical.
Canadians have better chocolates, better candy, better flavors of chips. And Tim Horton's of course.
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.
To have the title has always been special to me, and I would love to win the championship.
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.
I consider myself more of a wrestler than a sports entertainer.
I always tell everyone wrestling is like the mafia, once you get in, you can't get out.
Throughout my career, especially the second half of my career, I was always nerdy or anal when it came to how I prepared for my matches.
Most people when they go to Vegas want to go to places on the Strip and experience the big names. Actually in Las Vegas, I find the best restaurants are off the Strip.
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.
I started becoming an agent and producing before I retired. I was doing double-duty to get my feet wet.
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.
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 think change is always scary but also always good.
I have always said that I will retire when my body starts giving out on me.
I really didn't know how to eat until I studied nutrition in my second year of college.
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.
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.
Of course, having that confidence of having the fans behind you in your hometown is always special.
I enjoy cooking, but I don't know... I just don't think I have enough skills to teach other people.
I was very green when I started in WWE and felt very uncomfortable with talking.
I wasn't on television until 25.
Tessa Blanchard is a premium athlete and you can't take that away from her.
WWE always thinks in a business mindset.
I'm a big sushi fan.
WWE can say they don't watch Impact and TNA but I know that's a lie.
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.
Wrestling is very physically demanding. You can be in great shape and still not be in ring shape.
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.
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 feel like I have chemistry with every girl but I don't know what happened with Awesome Kong. I never even saw her work before our very first match. I just heard so much about her and then we brought in this whole women's division.
I know that as a performer how much we rely on the fans for how we feel and react.
I think all wrestlers, you never really want it to end.
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.
