A biography for Laurel Van Nesshasn’t been written yet.
“It's very hard when you start working as a wrestler to try and stop doing things that are second nature. For me, when I take a move and start selling, that is second nature for me.”
“I'm going to give it my all, but I'm also going to know my worth, know that I have options, and that's the best feeling in the world.”
“Nothing fazes me anymore.”
“I want to continue to wrestle nonstop whether I have the title or not, and I'm not afraid of whoever it is that wants to step up.”
“Lance Storm taught me everything that I know.”
“I love experiencing new cultures and new foods.”
“I could never see myself getting in a ring and wrestling Zack Ryder.”
“I'd say I'm friends with 90 percent of the girls I meet.”
“I was lucky to find a way to get a visa as an independent worker, which is hard to do. On top of that, I do live in the States, which means I'm not 'taking my skills back to Canada.'”
“On 'Tough Enough' you're in a house with your competitors, living, eating and breathing with them. That's really tough.”
“I am glad the world opened their eyes to female Japanese stars. I think people for so long paid attention to Mexico, Canada, Australia and England and never Japan.”
“I love wrestling, but now wrestling is a job, it's my livelihood. Sometimes the job takes over and you forget to have fun and you forget to be creative and try new things.”
“I always thought Magic Kingdom was supposed to be the happiest place on Earth - where everything smells like waffle cones and cotton candy - but when I first went to Diagon Alley, I knew that was where I belonged.”
“The one consistent character in all of this is Chelsea Green, and that's how people know me, even as all else changes. I can go out and be the hot mess, or go hard in matches or be silly, and that's still all me.”
“And I actually had to beg for my last tryout at NXT. Yeah, I actually had to send multiple emails to say, 'I want another tryout and there's no reason you will not hire me after this tryout.' And that was the tryout that they hired me from.”
“I used to live in Devon when I was 8 years old. My mum, my grandma, and grandpa are all British.”
“I'm the best. I should win everything.”
“The people that have made a name for themselves and really just can wrestle have worked their butts off to get to that place. They definitely deserve a lot of respect.”
“In wrestling, I don't consider it acting because it's improv.”
“I worked on trying to get to Mexico, which was the first thing that I really wanted to do, but a couple of my girlfriends thought that I should learn how to wrestle before I go to Mexico, so I should try out in Japan. That is how I kind of got over there in Japan.”