Dana Brooke Quotes

It is a challenge to have your launch date slip continuously.

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.

I grew up in Cleveland, so my heart got attached at a young age to the freight train of sadness that is Cleveland sports.

You know that if you come to WWE and want to maintain a certain level of success, you're going to be busy and gone a lot. It's part of the deal.

I made good money at WWE and traveled the world and interacted with my fans, but I missed a lot of family time. That really hits me.

I got catfished by WWE constantly. You're 26 - 0, and then you run into the Big Show and then you're 0 - 26.

I can't say that I never will or would go back to the WWE. I honestly never intended on leaving until I retired. However we don't choose our destiny. We just live it.

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.

The hardest thing about the WWE is the travel.

I always had a sort of niggling regret that we didn't come do stuff in America.

WWE dropped the ball with 'Tough Enough.'

For me, Philadelphia was always kind of that city you traveled to as an independent wrestler. I traveled there once or twice a month, doing that seven-to-eight-hour drive from Cleveland to Philly just to try and make a name for myself.

I look around and see guys that I've been on the road and traveled the world with in a WWE locker room, and we still think it's surreal. At least once a week, one of us will look at the other and just say, 'Can you believe we're really all here?'

Losing in my home town of Sheffield, it upset me really badly.

When I was 18, I went to the East Coast of America, got mugged, and came straight home.

I've experienced WWE twice now, and I know that I do not enjoy that place. The second time I really had optimistic hopes and dreams, but I know I would never go back there.

I never would have thought that in a million years that this would have happened, being in WWE and being in a Muppet film. But for some stroke of luck I guess they both did and I'm loving both of them.

I didn't go to my prom. I didn't go to my homecoming.

He missed that, too, and it hadn't even happened.

We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.

Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late?

The love of your life won't be the man you end up with, and you'll always compare the two.

Dimitri should have been here with me. That's how it was supposed to have been.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.