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That's really what drew me into wrestling. To see my own uncle put on the mask every Friday to go into the ring, and me putting on his masks to play wrestle with him. It was a whole different world when it came down to sports.

At one time, I wanted to be a WWE wrestler. I still do. I want to go in the ring once and mess around and jump off the ropes and do a Stone Cold stunt.

To me, wrestling is just as cool as it ever was.

I think I was given a gift to wrestle. And I think when I came back, I had a much better appreciation of that. And I believe the way I went about doing it made me better at it. I didn't identify myself with the job as I did so much in the '90s. In the '90s, I didn't know who I was other than 'the wrestler.'

I didn't want to walk into WWE and be someone who just does bikini matches and played second fiddle to the guys. I wanted to stand out, make people excited to see women's wrestling, and show them we can be better than the men.

It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.

I just started watching wrestling in 2008, and I've loved it ever since. I told my mom I wanted to become a wrestler.

After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Instead of being like the other kids going to soccer or football practice, I was wrestling every day.