Laurel Van Ness

“I might be able to high fly when I'm wrestling Pentagon, at the end of the day, Pentagon won that match. At the end of the day, I took 10 package piledrivers, so I don't really want to do that again.”

“I don't know if anyone can say, 'oh, I know I'm going to get signed.' You don't know what they're looking for. You might have excelled in-ring but you might not have excelled at promos. It's about giving it 110 percent, and then having NXT want you in their family.”

“I can compete anywhere. I can compete on 'Raw,' on 'SmackDown,' on 'Main Event.' I can compete on 205 Live if they want me to.”

“I don't have any influences, I influence people. People watch me.”

“I don't think you can understand everything that goes into being a superstar because even I don't understand everything. I think we're all learning as we go.”

“When I first started out wrestling in front of 100 people, I thought, 'Chelsea, you're better than this. You should be working in front of thousands!' But I was crazy.”

“I was always very interested in fitness, I played a lot of sports growing up.”

“I think as females, we always want to have more air time, more room time, more - longer matches and more main events. But, at the end of the day, we're going in that direction, and I'm happy with that, and I'm happy with the side everyone has taken in women's wrestling.”

“I have never been a massive fan of intergender wrestling.”

“The name Laurel is such a strange choice because I think when you look at me there's not one person that says 'Oh yeah, I could see you as a Laurel.'”

“Everything in Asia is a culture shock, it's very different from North America, but it's great to be forced into a situation to meet new people and learn new techniques.”

“I love the U.K., and I think a lot of people don't realise that I actually went to primary school in England.”

“I knew nothing about wrestling! Sometimes that's a great thing, and sometimes that really annoys people in this industry but that's the truth. I had no clue how to wrestle. I had to learn everything, absolutely everything. To start from the bottom.”

“I think - for female or male, it is very challenging on the independent scene.”

“I knew I wanted to be a wrestler, so I became the best wrestler in wrestling history.”

“Every single year, I go through once the new year hits, I go through this moment where I kind of think about how far I've come and what's changed.”

“I had never seen a Pro Wrestling ring until I was maybe around grade 11.”

“I swear to you, any question you can have about moves, psychology, gimmicks, the history of Pro Wrestling, he knows. Lance Storm is an encyclopedia of wrestling knowledge.”

“That's always the bucket list for me: Different countries, different experiences, different food. To be able to do that through work? I'm the luckiest person alive.”

“Bound for Glory' week was such a whirlwind. With it being filmed in Canada, it was really exciting for me. Although it was on the East Coast and I'm from the West Coast, still felt like I was kind of in my hometown, I don't know.”