Eve Torres Quotes

'SmackDown Live' is a great place with a great roster and many talented superstars.

Something happened in 1997 that changed the whole industry, at least for the next five, six, or seven years. It wasn't about the 24-inch arms and the cartoon characters anymore. It was about the wrestling and what we were doing in the ring physically.

My goal is to make that must-see television so that you have to have the Network. My goal is to make 205 Live the place to see high-flying in a big way. If you're a fan of the U.K. style, then the Network is the place to go get that style.

I'm a huge WWE fan, 'Monday Night RAW' especially.

The days of just being a generic, punch-and-kick wrestler are pretty much over.

I'm the living proof that the WWE Universe wants to see wrestling. They want to see in-ring action.

It's a really cool time to be a wrestling fan.

I think because of 'Total Divas,' people have gotten to know who we are and kind of see more of the personality of the divas.

There are a lot of guys in those SmackDown and Raw locker rooms that, given the opportunity, I'd love to have matches with, tell stories with, and do stuff with.

As they say, anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation.

When I used to wrestle professionally, I preferred being the bad guy known as 'The Heel;' you would get to 'work the crowd,' getting them to hate you and want to see you lose, while the good guy 'Babyface' would walk in, smile and shake hands with a few kids, and his acting job was done.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

I've got my eye on Big Cass and Enzo Amore. I think they ooze everything that it takes to be a WWE superstar. They have so much energy. Those guys and the Vaudevillains are the guys I've been tipping my cap to on the viewership side.

My life is with WWE.

It goes - for me - WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, Summerslam. The big three.

WWE is all about doing things that have never been done.

Being on Raw every Monday is obviously important, but the pay-per-views are the big shows: that's where everything comes to a head, and I want to be a part of those as often as possible.

One thing that is very exciting and unpredictable about professional wrestling is that anything can happen.

When I am on 'Raw' and 'Smackdown,' I try to make the best of it.

To me personally, I love the NXT brand.

One thing you don't get to see too often on regular WWE television is the men and women interacting. The women have their storylines, and the men have theirs, and there's not too much overlap.

I would love to help guys transition from 'NXT' to 'Raw.'

I'm very proud of 'NXT.'

I think Raw, going forward, needs to be about the Superstars. It needs to be about the performers in the ring and not about how Stephanie McMahon and Mick Foley co-exist.

The cool thing about WWE is it's like entertainment boot camp. You're performing in front of a live audience, a different audience every night. You're doing promos in the ring. You're doing talking segments in the back. You're wrestling. You're performing. It's everything all rolled into one.