Gail Kim Quotes

With the success of the TNA Knockouts, that's when they started having their girls wrestle a lot more in WWE. I thought, 'This is a perfect time for me to come in. They care about women's wrestling.' Sadly it was just not the case.

Triple H was one of the main proponents of women's wrestling.

My honest opinion, and this is only my opinion and I don't know this as fact, I just think Vince McMahon did not like women's wrestling.

The most challenging thing that female wrestlers face is time. Getting those segments on Raw, getting one, two, three, four segments on SmackDown, main-eventing a pay-per-view, being considered a face of the division... And I have said it since day one: I want to be an attraction for the company.

I really don't feel like just going to WWE is the absolute end-all, be-all in wrestling.

What All Elite Wrestling does is it just creates more opportunities for women.

It's awesome to see the evolution of the women's division in WWE.

Ronda Rousey has done... she was a huge part of the women's revolution all over the world and part of the WWE, and now she's coming to WWE. It's going to be absolutely amazing.

When I came into WWE, what I said to myself was, I wanted to change the term from 'divas' to 'women.'

When I came in, there wasn't a bunch of women wrestlers. There was maybe one or two who came in a couple months a year.

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

I think sometimes wrestling fans will feel different, but the thing is, 'Total Divas' introduced women's wrestling to the world.

The WWE is the be-all and end-all of sports entertainment. They just do things right.

It's very cool to inspire other girls to be a WWE star.

WWE is a PG and a family product. Everybody can watch and enjoy WWE, whereas in the past, the parents were worried about what their kids were watching because of the blood, foul language, etc.

WWE is the 8,000 pound gorilla in the room, and the market share they have is north of 90 percent.

I'm here to say my legacy in The Octogon is over ... I re-signed last night with @WWE.

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.

I'm really encouraged by the progress I've seen with what they're doing with the women in WWE, but I feel like there's a lot more than can be done.

Anything I did with the WWE was not therapeutic by any stretch of the imagination. The reality is that nobody's going to tell you that, because they have an umbilical cord hooked to Vince McMahon. I, ladies and gentlemen, do not.

WWE is a company that produces fiction. It's a soap opera that runs 52 weeks a year without reruns.

WCW is a television company that produces a wrestling show. The WWE is a wrestling company that produces a television show.

I think with the Mae Young Classic, bringing in 30 women from all over the world shows what an impact women have in the company.

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.

I didn't want to walk into WWE and be someone who just does bikini matches and played second fiddle to the guys. I wanted to stand out, make people excited to see women's wrestling, and show them we can be better than the men.