Beth Phoenix Quotes

My first time being inside the Performance Center was for the WWE Tough Enough tryouts, and although I knew hardly anything about sports-entertainment, I knew I wanted to be a part of this place.

If you're in the WWE, it's like show business boot camp. You learn a little bit about everything as far as show business is involved.

There is nothing more than the world to me than performing in front of the WWE Universe. So I would like to do it as long as I can. As long as they will have me.

At 15-years-old, I always wanted to do professional wrestling, and at 15, I started training as a professional wrestler. It was always the plan to become an entertainer, a sports entertainer.

The WWE have told me that if I ever want to become a wrestler, all I need to do is walk through the door, and they'll give me a job straight away.

I wanted to be a part of WWE and part of NXT first, as, if I went to 'Raw' or 'SmackDown' right away, I would always wonder what NXT would have been like.

The joke we always say is that WWE doesn't pay us to wrestle, they pay us to travel.

If I do make WWE - because in my head, until it's official, it's not a thing - I think if they brought me in, it would be very short lived at NXT, and I'd be on main roster extremely quick.

Growing up, we were pretty much focused on becoming WWE superstars.

Loving entertainment but having our athletic talent, WWE seemed like the perfect fit for us.

I was a high school teacher when I joined Bullet Club and started going to Japan.

As soon as I found out there was a school you could go to to become a WWE superstar, I was immediately hooked.

I loved my time in Deep South Wrestling. We trained so hard and I got a crash course into the world of sports entertainment and pro wrestling.

I was always a fan of wrestling, right from the time I was nine or so. But eventually I decided I wanted to do professional wrestling myself, not just watch.

Probably better than anybody, I realized that I could have easily been one of those guys who was not seen as being a WWE-type guy.

I am an entertainer and I am an athlete, and WWE is the biggest performance-based show in the world.

Just knowing the history of WWE, I know there haven't been a lot of African Americans that have come through and been successful. But there are women who have done amazing and inspired me.

WWE was an opportunity to wrestle in front of thousands - in 2013, I did 227 matches, and almost all of them were in front of more than three or four thousand people, with a high of 70,000 plus. It was an incredible experience to be part of that.

John Cena is one of the great WWE talents that I respect most. If I were to end up there, working with someone of his caliber would certainly be a goal and jive with my mission of changing wrestling.

I was in the independent scene for two years before I got the call from the WWE.

I'll be the first Australian to compete in the WWE.

I was 21 years old when I first signed with WWE. I finished my university degree and came straight to America.

I think WWE superstars and Divas are here to change lives. That's why they do what they do. They want to make an impact on the world.

I went to my tryout in WWE, and I think within like six weeks, it was really fast for me, I was like down there, moved to Tampa, and the rest was history.

Ring Of Honor was so great to me and so great to many young talents where they really give you the ball.