Shayna Baszler Quotes

I still want to be as approachable and relatable as possible - when I meet fans and they're crying, I'll say, 'Calm down, there's nothing to cry about.'

The most important thing about being in wrestling is that you have to connect with the crowd, connect with the fans, and you either want them to love you, or to hate you. Either way, so long as they're reacting to what you're doing.

Diamond Dallas Page didn't have that larger-than-life persona, but he had a different connection with the audience.

People see you on screen and they like you, but they never really get a chance to meet you. When you're doing music, you know you have to go sit at in-stores, and you're actually in the street, so there's more of a hands-on kind of thing.

It's very exciting to have fan response and fan reaction.

You never know how people are gonna receive you and especially a character that's so close to the fans in type...

I just know that I had great matches pretty much every night. I had great rapport with the fans. I could make them love me or hate me depending on what I wanted.

Sometimes you have to set the angle within the match, but you gotta give a reason for one guy to be loved and one guy to be hated.

I don't really think about the fact that a lot of people are watching 'DSDS' or about the way I should phrase my sentences.

I am a stress buster. Because I knew what people react or think after watching me on screen and I love it.

I've established this kind of wild persona and these redneck party songs and a live show that's kind of rowdy, but I don't want people to think that's what I'm all about.

I feel I've always been a fan-friendly fighter.

I want to be associated with good entertainment.

As far as the community involvement is concerned, I don't necessarily think that being a babyface or being a heel really affects that because, at the end of the day, people know that we're entertainers. We're very forward about that.

You have to make a choice, and you have to commit to a character. You're either a babyface or a character that the fans relate to, support, love and aspire to be, or you're not. And if you're not, you're a heel: you're despicable, and they need to learn to love to hate you.

I think there's a balance of fan interaction. I think sometimes there can be a little too much interaction. I know when I was a kid, the mystique of wrestlers and stuff was something that was kind of big, and if I got to hang out with them all the time i think that mystique can be lost.

We can talk and get feedback about our videos directly from some of our biggest fans. We can't stress the importance of that connection enough.

The fans are most important... when it comes to the entertainment industry. They are the ones that matter most, and they should be heard.

I will do everything that is required from me, but if people get bored of me, I can't control their emotions.

I've learned how to be a better performer on stage and interact with the fans, make it feel like a collective experience more than just me singing songs on a stage and feeling really detached.

How the audience as a collectivity feels about a movie is important.

My relationship with the fans has always been incredible.

You can call us what you want, but at the end of the day, we're entertainers.

When I was younger, I used to love the idea of writing songs and performing them live. But that was all I thought about. I didn't think about people getting to know my face.

I didn't know what a good technical wrestler was when I was little - it was people that made me scream or boo or cheer.