Top 107 Quotes & Sayings by Gail Kim

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian wrestler Gail Kim.

Last updated on September 12, 2024.

Gail Kim-Irvine is a Canadian-American retired professional wrestler, currently signed to Impact Wrestling, where she serves as a producer. In Impact Wrestling she was the inaugural and record setting seven-time Knockouts Champion and she also was a one-time Knockouts Tag Team Champion where Madison Rayne was her tag team partner winning the belt alongside her. She is also known for her two stints in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where she won the WWE Women's Championship in her first match.

Canadian - Wrestler | Born: February 20, 1977

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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.

Gail Kim

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

Gail Kim

I don't think I could do the four or five days a week in the WWE. I feel bad for them.

Gail Kim

I've always had a lot of pressure on myself, but I'm not going to lie, I feel a lot of pressure to give the fans everything they expect plus more.

Gail Kim

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.

Gail Kim

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

Gail Kim

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

Gail Kim

I think change is always scary but also always good.

Gail Kim

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.

Gail Kim

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.

Gail Kim

I really didn't know how to eat until I studied nutrition in my second year of college.

Gail Kim

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.

Gail Kim

I wasn't on television until 25.

Gail Kim

We always tell everyone that women's wrestling has always been told through the lens of a man because it's a male-dominated industry. It's never been told through the lens of a woman and we want to be able to tell that story.

Gail Kim

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.

Gail Kim

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.

Gail Kim

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

Gail Kim

I heard many times that they want the Divas to be girly. They didn't care about the heel girls getting any heat. We just didn't understand. They did everything in their power, it seemed, to take everything to give us a good match, for the heels to get any heat. It was no kicking one week, or no punching the next. No this, no that.

Gail Kim

The true wrestling fans that watch TNA Impact, I think they've always known. I don't want to say they take it for granted in anyway, but they always just know that TNA and Impact Wrestling are going to give them women's wrestling.

Gail Kim

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

Gail Kim

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

Gail Kim

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

Gail Kim

Wrestling is one of those things that make me emotional.

Gail Kim

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

Gail Kim

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

Gail Kim

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.'

Gail Kim

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

Gail Kim

I know people are going to be surprised to hear me say this because they think I'm such an advocate for women's wrestling... But I truly believe that the best time in wrestling, for me, was when I first got into WWE and they had a strong women's division and they also had girls who strengths weren't in the ring and were more for entertainment.

Gail Kim

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.

Gail Kim

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

Gail Kim

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

Gail Kim

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.

Gail Kim

I just want to be as good as I can be with any opponent I have and hear everyone say 'that was her best match ever.'

Gail Kim

Most of the time a wrestler misses the in-ring action, but because of my back and working with the girls as an agent, I don't miss it.

Gail Kim

Tessa Blanchard is a premium athlete and you can't take that away from her.

Gail Kim

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.

Gail Kim

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.

Gail Kim

I enjoy cooking, but I don't know... I just don't think I have enough skills to teach other people.

Gail Kim

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.

Gail Kim

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

Gail Kim

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.

Gail Kim

There are so many girls that are really talented like Sasha Banks and Bayley. I have been lucky enough to work with many generations of girls, so every time you see someone really talented you get that urge to make some magic with that girl.

Gail Kim

When I joined the WWE, Dave 'Fit' Finley was our first agent that we worked with all the time and he brought in another form of aggression in me.

Gail Kim

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.

Gail Kim

I'm a big sushi fan.

Gail Kim

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.

Gail Kim

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.

Gail Kim

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

Gail Kim

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.

Gail Kim

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.

Gail Kim

I have always said that I will retire when my body starts giving out on me.

Gail Kim

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

Gail Kim

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.

Gail Kim

I never wanted the fans to remember me as anything but my best.

Gail Kim

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.

Gail Kim

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

Gail Kim

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

Gail Kim

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

Gail Kim

I feel that I've worked so hard to gain the respect of the fans and my co-workers.

Gail Kim

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

Gail Kim