Top 33 Becky Lynch Quotes

My whole ‘WWE‘ career has been rebuilding myself and finding the confidence that I once had. It’s been one hell of a journey. There have been times I felt like the prodigal son because I left wrestling and abandoned this thing that I loved.

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

My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant, and she got put on to the Trans-Atlantic route over Christmastime, so she brought the whole family.

You can be going through hardships sometimes, and you‘re struggling, and then you’re wondering if you’re ever gonna make it.

I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?

When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, ‘Hell yes, I’m going to captain this ship.’ Then I was like, ‘Oh, wait, you’re losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.’ That’s Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend.

We’re changing the way people are going to look at wrestling, women’s wrestling, forever. Forever. And we’re at the start of it? That’s unbelievable. That’s unbelievable! Unbelievable.

My life changed completely. It’s crazy now. It’s kind of gone from striving and wondering and being confused and being lost to just feeling like the most blessed person in the world – just happy to wake up every day, happy to get on a plane every time. Just couldn’t be happier with life, really.

For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking classes, martial arts classes. I taught a foreign language. I went back to college and studied acting, which I love. I was doing stunt work as well.

I remember I did a boxing class. I remember sparring one time, and the guy smacked me right in the nose, and I was just like, ‘What is this? No. No. None of that.

It’s so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibility for it, and speak up and say, This isn’t right; this isn’t me.’ It’s a great lesson, not just in wrestling but in life. If you’re not feeling something that’s true to your heart… everybody‘s gotta be true.

I love ‘Pac-man’, ‘Mortal Kombat’, and ‘Street Fighter‘. ‘Ryu’ is my favourite-ever character – I’d love to leapfrog the Hadouken. I never really evolved too far beyond that, but I have played ‘2K17’.

Ronda Rousey changing the game for MMA, you know? Dana White said he’d never have a girl in the Octagon. Ronda Rousey comes along, and she’s the main event any time she’s on. The women, I feel, in the UFC are stealing the show.

This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women’s wrestling was freakin’ cool, and now it is.

When I was younger, I didn’t want to come to WWE because I didn’t fit into the mold. I couldn’t identify myself with the term ‘diva.’ The divas brand was meant to put a spotlight on the women, but the term, to me, felt more glamorous than me.

Everybody has that thing about them that makes them special, and sometimes we try to dull it down or we don’t always want to expose it, and maybe we’ve been taught that way or whatever. It’s just a matter of letting it out and letting it go and letting people in on it.

I want to make ‘Smackdown’ the brand to watch, but beyond that main-eventing, ‘WrestleMania‘ is the next step.

Mostly for social media, Twitter or Instagram becomes so much more fun when you can be boastful and say whatever you want. You can be so full of yourself and ridiculous when you’re a heel.

It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies – I’d wake up with this gnawing feeling in my stomach that I wasn’t doing what I was meant to do.

The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.

McGregor is a businessman through and through. He’s obviously a wrestling fan.

If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.

Everybody that’s employed by ‘WWE’ – the biggest wrestling company in the world – should be good wrestlers able to tell good stories.

When I started wrestling, I started only to get in shape. I found out that a wrestling school had opened in Ireland, and I wanted to go because I was hanging out with the wrong crowd and I wanted to turn my life around.

I’d like there to be consistently more women’s storylines going on at the same time.

I quit wrestling in 2006 because I just got lost. My mom didn’t want me wrestling. I was wondering if I was going to make it in wrestling; I got injured in a match. I was 19. I was away from home, living in Florida, and I just got lost. I couldn’t face it, so I stepped away.

With women empowerment and women coming together, it’s not about being better than the guys or whatever. It’s just about collaboration; it’s about being equal people and having more of a highlight on women’s athletics and just women being equal in every aspect.

What I loved about wrestling was just being foolish, so I studied clown. I studied clown. I studied the art of clown. I actually did my thesis on clown.

When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.

My brother was going to go to England to wrestle, but then we found out they were opening a wrestling school in Bray, County Wicklow. I thought, ‘I’ll go along and try that.’

Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, ‘We’re just going to be the best, and we’re going for the championships.

When things are scary, or there’s a struggle, I always think, ‘How is this going to sound in my biography?’ Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn’t have a lot of money.

Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?