Beth Phoenix Quotes

I've always been an independent wrestler at heart. You say I haven't had a 'home' but a company is not a home, a house is a home, a family is a home and I have that.

At the end of the day, wrestling is one big, happy, dysfunctional family.

Growing up in wrestling - and I have been involved in wrestling, really, my entire life - I learned right from the get-go that you never forget your fans. They are the ones that put your food on the table and pay your bills.

Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.

It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.

Marriage is hard. I'm not gonna lie.

I've been friends with a lot of the NXT competitors for years, but just walking into the Performance Center alone is intimidating.

The WWE universe is unlike any other group of people.

The WWE gave me a family and a life.

This whole wrestling world is a different breed, there's no doubt.

My whole family are wrestlers; I was brought up in the business.

Professional wrestling was almost like a secret society when I started, like a Mafia, and it would destroy the Sheik to see how much that has changed.

This love of wrestling has been in my family with my dad, my brother, and myself.

It's kind of a tricky subject because I had a great time in WWE. There were highs and lows, but I cut my teeth there. I met my wife there.

That's how I look at it, if you're a wrestling fan, either support everybody and their families to make a living or just hold all of your overt criticism to yourself.

WWE is like a big family, and you don't realise that until you step away from it and come back.

I think I'll always have a home in WWE.

Out in the WWE ring, we have to play so much bad guy, good guy, don't talk to your competitors, but backstage, you'll see that we're all really close, and it affects us.

WWE is home; it's a family. I'll always be a part of this as long as I can contribute in some positive way. But I know there's a time when the sun sets on everything.

Wrestling is pretty DIY. I've been doing it for 12 years, completely on my own. It's like being in a band or running a zine - except that I get to kick people in the face.

It's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers].

For every little kid who still believes in Santa Claus, there is at least one adult who still believes in professional wrestling.

I talk about things I'm passionate about. I talk about the wrestling business, because I love wrestling. I just love it. If I can just have good conversation with a guy who was a bada** wrestler, we're talking about something that's very near and dear to our heart.