Top 75 Gail Kim Quotes

Throughout my career, especially the second half of my career, I was always nerdy or anal when it came to how I prepared for my matches.

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.

I think all wrestlers, you never really want it to end.

I’ve lived a gypsy life and wouldn’t know any other way to live.

I’m just glad when I was fighting for us to wrestle I would always have people tell me, ‘Gail, women’s wrestling is for the bathroom breaks, you know they really don’t want to see it.’ I would get discouraged a little bit but I was very adamant, so I’m glad that we girls proved them wrong.

I wasn’t on television until 25.

WWE always thinks in a business mindset.

Of course, I wrestled in Windsor for Scott D’Amore’s promotion way back in my very early days. That was at the very, very beginning, when I was working under a mask as La Felina.

Wrestling has progressed to the point that the fourth wall has been broken. People would enjoy more seeing what is behind the superhero that they watch on TV.

I am grateful to have been in this business for 16 years, which not a lot of women can say they have been fortunate to do that kind of run that many years in a row.

I always wanted to make the matches in some way different unique and interesting. I never wanted to have that basic match. I just wanted us to stand out in some way or another, whether it was storytelling or interesting wrestling moves.

I’ve experienced WWE twice now, and I know that I do not enjoy that place. The second time I really had optimistic hopes and dreams, but I know I would never go back there.

Impact has always been a great place for camaraderie and feeling like a family.

Timing is everything in wrestling and when I was with the WWE it just wasn’t the right time. I was unhappy and I decided to look for opportunities elsewhere.

I always tell everyone wrestling is like the mafia, once you get in, you can’t get out.

I’ve always known of ROH and have worked with a lot of the workers there, but they’ve never reached out to me. It’s just never happened. But I’m always open to everything.

I’ve noticed a huge difference in my energy level cutting out the red meat. It’s crazy.

Broken Matt Hardy was born in Impact Wrestling and I think he had great memories.

Once I started to retire, I was telling all of the girls in my generation, ‘Wow I feel like an outsider in this locker room because this whole new generation of women has stepped in,’ and that was one of the signs where I said maybe it’s time to retire.

Wrestling is very physically demanding. You can be in great shape and still not be in ring shape.

I feel that my talent is in the ring.

I was very green when I started in WWE and felt very uncomfortable with talking.

As far as I remember, I was always a big eater. I eat just as much as the wrestler guys.

I do find Twitter to be more negative than Instagram. Instagram is not so bad. I think it’s because of the pictures and see a face where on Twitter people forget we are human beings.

My back was starting to deteriorate and basically what happened was I just couldn’t walk after a couple of matches here and there. I never had an MRI and I never knew what was going on in my body for so long, and then it was coming to point where I was always wrestling and not being able to walk after.

I didn’t know the colors of my wedding or what my bouquet would look like!

To have the title has always been special to me, and I would love to win the championship.

When I signed with WWE I was really happy that they had the PG thing going on. I thought, ‘Yes! No more bra and panties matches, no bikini contests.’

A lot of people that have worked with me know I’m pretty direct.

I think we were in London for TV and David Hasselhoff was guest host of ‘Raw’. We had the match where we did the slo-mo entrance run. It was really funny.

I wish WWE had their own creative team for the girls. They could have an even stronger women’s division.

Canadians have better chocolates, better candy, better flavors of chips. And Tim Horton’s of course.

I want to contribute the best I can to TNA and the Knockouts division. I want to be a part of taking the Knockouts division to another level.

I just want everyone to remember me as a great wrestler, that’s what I aim to do.

The culture or environment of a company starts from the top. The leadership. The leadership of a company sends a message to its employees of what is tolerated and what is not.

It’s so frustrating to be working so hard and know that it’s not going anywhere and it doesn’t matter.

I know that as a performer how much we rely on the fans for how we feel and react.

Oh my gosh, women have it so much harder than men. If you ask me the differences are professional as well as physical.

Impact Wrestling has never stopped with women’s wrestling.

I like to lean on making wrestling the most believable, realistic form of entertainment as possible for the most part.

I consider myself more of a wrestler than a sports entertainer.

In terms of being honored at the TNA Hall of Fame, I think that’s something that every pro wrestler dreams about.

I decided I really wanted to go into something athletic. But I was 23, starting later in life, so wrestling was one of the few things available.

I had a minor back surgery, as minor as it’s going to get.

To have the appreciation from your peers, the fans and the company you work for is the ultimate reward. For me, that has always been ultimate because respect has always been the most important thing to me in this business.

I think change is always scary but also always good.

People say women’s wrestling sucks and nobody wants to see it, but every time there are storylines and they invest in the women, people react and love it.

I’m very direct and I don’t sugar coat anything.

I want racial and gender equality.

Growing up, I would think I want to do this, I want to do that. You change your mind a million times.

I love food. I love to eat. I’m married to a chef. I can’t go without food.

I feel like I have chemistry with every girl but I don’t know what happened with Awesome Kong. I never even saw her work before our very first match. I just heard so much about her and then we brought in this whole women’s division.

Myself and every Knockout in the company at the beginning worked so hard to build up a credible women’s division in TNA so finally holding the title meant so much to me.

I’m always looking to top the last match, I’m always looking to entertain the fans and steal the show.

I would never take back winning the WWE Women’s title for a moment, but winning the TNA Knockouts title meant a whole lot more to me.

True wrestling fans love a great wrestling match.

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.

Wrestling is one of those things that make me emotional.

But that’s my point on intergender wrestling – I don’t like to see things where a man is going to punch a woman. I just think about the kids that are watching. I take that into consideration.

In high school, I played basketball, volleyball, soccer, baseball, badminton – two sports every season – and I was named female athlete of the year twice.

Normally, with girls that I know in the business, they start off managing and then they become a wrestler, or they just stay as a manager who can wrestle, but I was always a wrestler.

For me, if I had a magical match that I was so proud of, and I had to work the same person after that again, it was always about topping that last thing and being the best.

You know, in terms of accomplishments and things like that, I feel like I’ve accomplished what I’ve wanted.

WWE is basically scooping up all the talent and making it really difficult. They say they want competition and like competition, but I don’t believe that. They are trying to make this a monopoly.

Why would you have a seven-hour show? The fans are going to be so tired halfway through the show.

Of course, having that confidence of having the fans behind you in your hometown is always special.

As an ethnic female in wrestling, there will be people reading my words and I want to set an example. I did experience racism.

I would miss the action if I ever stepped away from wrestling.

I watched wrestling as a kid when I was younger, and then I kind of fell out of it, and then I started watching it again around my early 20s.

Most people when they go to Vegas want to go to places on the Strip and experience the big names. Actually in Las Vegas, I find the best restaurants are off the Strip.

When I first saw ‘Broken’ Matt Hardy, I thought to myself, ‘Umm…’ I actually said to Jeremy Borash ‘Why is he talking like that? Is he trying to make an accent and it’s coming out really bad?’ And then it kind of grows on you and it’s just funny as hell, at least for me.

I’m the only female producer on Impact, and they’re very supportive, the men.

The WWE is the big company and the one the mainstream audience is watching, but I feel like if you were a hardcore wrestling fan, you were watching TNA.

I started becoming an agent and producing before I retired. I was doing double-duty to get my feet wet.