“I quit wrestling in 2006 because I just got lost. My mom didn't want m...” — Becky Lynch Quote

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.

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

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.'

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.

I always had the confidence. The platform, guys getting injured and giving me multiple opportunities, that has allowed me to showcase it.

It's very strange getting out of the military, when you've lived in Iraq, and people you know are going overseas again and again. Some of them are getting injured.

People ask me why I keep getting injured but I have just had to accept it is one of those things that happen.

When I was in Spain, I found that tough because I was injured for a year. You cannot really go out on a weekend if you are injured because you are doing everything you can to get fit.