Tenille Dashwood Quotes

Tenille Dashwood

Profession : Wrestler

Birth : March 1, 1989

I'm all about having a laugh, having fun, loving being around people who are like that, who give off that positive vibe.

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I think WWE is very much entertainment, and obviously Ring of Honor is too, but i think you see a little more wrestling in Ring of Honor.

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I'm very lucky to be able to live the life that's everything I ever wanted, to have made that possible for myself, and to be actually doing it.

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The best wrestling characters are an extension of your real-life personality, and I've always been a bit of an attention seeker.

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Being in this industry isn't for everyone, that's for sure. Wrestling consumes your whole life... for me that's fine, it's what I want, but for others not so much.

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I've had my fun here in the WWE. After a while, though, I realized having fun wasn't going to get me where I need to be.

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I have been a fan of wrestling since I was about 8 years old. In 2012, I went to my first WWE show in Melbourne, Australia, and knew that my already existing desire to be a wrestler wasn't going away anytime soon.

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I became involved in the Australian independent wrestling scene between the ages of 13 and 19. When I was 19, I left home on my own and moved to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, to train with my mentor and friend Lance Storm.

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Through my ventures in Australia, I wrestled current NXT Assistant Head Coach Sara Amato, who helped connect me with companies in the USA, where I also wrestled on the independent circuit.

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Ring of Honor is one of the top companies in the world.

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The timing of Ring of Honor actually giving a push to women's wrestling and starting the Ring of Honor women's tournament worked out well. It was good timing with all of that around me being a free agent.

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Wrestling means a lot to me, so I think I'm always going to have the anxious excitement right before I go out the curtain.

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You know, I've wrestled for over half my life.

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I'm definitely not the 'Diva' sort, I'm the wrestler.

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I wanted to try new things, I had ideas for things that I had done in the past and I watched people, I saw their styles, new things came to me and I've integrated that into my matches.

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Excitement was there because I had the realisation of having matches that weren't always TV matches, that weren't always strict on timelines or storylines and more so focused on the wrestling, different opponents I hadn't worked before and a lot of one-on-one matches.

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I'm able to get out there and wrestle for longer periods of time. It was like a whole new thing I hadn't done really in years.

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When I actually started in NXT - or FCW back then - when I did independent wrestling shows, I would be lucky if the promoter would be able to find a girl for me to wrestle.

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Fans always come up to me and tell me that we started the women's revolution. I'm so happy when people come up to me and say that.

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I think what Ring of Honor is known for really spoke to me.

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