Gayle Rankin Quotes

Pro wrestling is entertainment, but people get hurt all of the time.

For anyone to say that WWE is fake or anything like that, no sir! It's very physical, and the injuries are real; the blood is real.

They say it's all fake, but there's nothing fake when a guy picks you up and slams you down or throws you out of the ring onto a concrete floor. They say, 'Yeah, but you know how to land.' Well, you try landing on a concrete floor.

You do take a beating in professional wrestling. But I love it.

There are no tough guys in wrestling.

Many people don't realize just how dangerous professional wrestling actually is. People can get seriously injured and even paralyzed.

I get paid to get hit in the head.

When you go into a 'WWE' ring, you know you're going to compete. You know that things are going to hurt. It is a dangerous, dangerous place. No matter what people think or say, it's a very, very dangerous thing.

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.

I think most people, most rational people, most people that I would feel comfortable sitting in a room with, understand that wrestling is scripted entertainment. But they don't want you to remind them of that.

Wrestling has gotten so show-biz, it's to the point where people scoff at it.

My No. 1 dream match is Brock Lesnar. And I want that to be a WrestleMania match. I don't know if the WWE will ever let that happen, because they might be afraid he might legitimately hurt me pretty bad.

I don't like to use the word 'fake.' A lot of our stuff is choreographed. But there is a lot of physicality that happens during the course of a match and our careers. There's a lot of physicality that happens to us and you can't deny that.

We all sign up where you might get hurt. That's what makes this league a little bit different than any other in professional sports.

I would be a fool to tell you that there was no fixing. You ask if wrestling is for real? Well, I think my own body answers that question.

If you are watching television and two guys come out and you are already able to tell what the finish of that match is based on entrances alone, that's a problem.

I like to hit hard, I like to be hit hard, and I like really competitive matches. That's my take on pro wrestling.

You realize, as time goes on, there is a certain expectation now in 2018 where fans want to see cool, exciting, hard-hitting sports entertainment or hard-hitting pro wrestling, and there are ways to give them that without necessarily putting yourself in the hospital that night or not being able to move the next morning.

I'm an artist, a performer... There's an art to what we do to the wrestling... I don't want to really fight anybody.

People think that we hired a bunch of actresses and taught them how to wrestle, and that couldn't be further from the truth.

I'd never seen a professional wrestling match. First one I saw, I was in. It was just an accident.

If professional wrestling did not exist, could you come up with this idea? Could you envision the popularity of huge men in tiny bathing suits, pretending to fight?

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.

Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.

All I know is professional wrestling and sports entertainment. This is all I know, and I wanted to give it everything that I had.