Brie Bella Quotes

Wrestling is to go out there and perform and make people believe that either of the performers in the ring can win - either the bad guy or the good guy.

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

Pro wrestling is not fake; it's sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there is real, but we're not going to insult anyone's intelligence - there is a predetermined winner. It's just the fans don't know who it is, and that's what makes it so intriguing.

If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.

Modern day wrestlers are fans of the performance of wrestling instead of the concept of wrestling.

I once said that I never wanted to be a good guy or the 'baby face,' as we call it in the wrestling business. But you know, it is what it is, and I'll be whatever they want me to be. At the end of the day, we work for the WWE fans.

To me, the best part of coming up in that, kind of the last era before it went that way with the FCWs or NXTs, kind of the farm system, is that, you know, wrestling Jimmy Valiant in front of 10 people in Cleveland. We didn't touch. I think we did two things, but we were out there for 20 minutes.

Sometimes - and I don't mean it disrespectfully - the easiest people to work in the wrestling business are the people in the locker room.

I found that when I went to the ring as a bad guy, people hated that I took care of myself. That I went to the gym, that I had hair extensions, that I put makeup on. They hated that I was a girly-girl. I thought, OK, I'm going to crank that up to 110 percent and make people really annoyed.

I love wrestling. I love WWE. I love being a part of something special every single night we go out there.

That is the thing that wrestling is, we are who we are. Even when we are established we are not actors. We are wrestlers.

I think it's cool to be able to show people who don't know anything about NJPW what we do.

Johnny Wrestling, to me, isn't just a cool nickname or a fun thing for the crowd to chant. To me, it's a state of mind, and it's just who I am. I first stepped foot in a wrestling ring when I was 8 years old.

I am still very much rooted in what I really fell in love with, with sports entertainment and pro wrestling.

In a sense, I think the WWE Universe has become one of the greatest characters of the modern era.

At one point when we recorded 'Fighting with My Family' at the Staples Center it was an incredible feeling and I loved it but I was playing AJ Lee and I wanted it to be me.

That's what we do in the WWE: we tell stories; we're characters. We go into the ring, and my character is telling a story in the ring against another character.

That's what we do in WWE: we tell stories.

You can't just run through a cookie cutter press and crank out a wrestler that looks like Bill Goldberg.

I can always be ruthless and aggressive in the ring, but I don't think I'll ever have the opportunity to be 'The Funkasaurus' again.

Anyone that's been with WWE, there's frustrations of feeling like you can only do so much. The women are told not to punch or to kick, to do power bombs and the power moves, and none of that exists in 'Lucha Underground.'

I took the antiquated, outdated, passe role of the wrestling manager, and I upgraded it into the upper echelon of sports entertainment to be known as an advocate.

Aleister Black - we've battled in the past, across the world. I've enjoyed his build, to watch his evolution as well.

Diesel coming down with shades, being seven feet tall with an all-black outfit on and the gloves; The Rock when he was wearing $800 Versace shirts; and Stone Cold, obviously, with the way he carried himself and the way he spoke and holding the microphone - these are the things that made me want to become a pro wrestler.

In the grand spectrum of things in WWE, you are wrestling for that camera and that camera and that camera - and all the cameras they have - and you have to make things work that way because, through that camera, there's a million people watching.