It's not like I don't like the term 'Diva.' It's what you make of it.
— Bayley
It's always a lot of fun to get to interact with people and meet different fans.
The blue gear with the red dinosaur is special to me because that's the first gear I wore in NXT.
People want to see Ronda Rousey because she is an attraction.
I feel comfortable talking to Vince, which seems so crazy for me to say. For me, I've been a fan, I've been watching him forever, and I'm like, 'Yeah, I'm comfortable to talk to Vince McMahon.'
It's very cool to inspire other girls to be a WWE star.
I remember having the opportunity to meet Ivory, as a kid, and she was the first woman's wrestler that I met. She looked at me and said, 'I'm going to see you in the ring one day, aren't I?'
I played everything. I played volleyball, did track, cross-country, but basketball was my main sport, my main focus.
I hated having my hair down because it got into my face when I was playing sports. My mom would always put my hair down and make it all pretty, and by the time I got to school, I would have it up in a ponytail.
I kinda started watching wrestling through Lucha Libre because my grandmother was always watching Lucha Libre.
Wherever we go, NXT fans are extremely loud, and it's not like a normal WWE live event.
Tyler Breeze! He is so amazing. He taught me so much about psychology when I was in NXT; he helped me so much with my matches with Eva Marie or Asuka.
I trained with a locker room and roster full of men, and we were all a family, and they all took care of me like their little sister. It's what I want out of a locker room. I think it helps the locker room, and it's a part of the success of the NXT women's division.
I want a one-on-one match with Sasha Banks. A Fatal Four-Way with Sasha, Becky Lynch, and Charlotte would also be great some day at a WrestleMania.
When I first started my character in my first match with Alicia Fox, I walked out with my hair in a ponytail, and as soon as I got into the ring, I took the ponytail out and let my hair down, because I knew it would get messed up, and I didn't want to look ridiculous on TV.
Social media is so huge.
Growing up watching WWE, they used to have bra-and-panties matches or pillow fights, and that's why my mom didn't want me to watch wrestling. But when my parents divorced, I was able to watch wrestling again, and that's when I started to really get into wrestlers like Ivory.
Fans come with pictures. People give me headbands, and girls have bracelets. It's really cool to get to meet them.
We've worked with Special Olympics Florida before, and I had so much fun doing that. It was really inspiring to meet all the athletes.
I think I have done everything I can here in NXT, and I do want to test myself on the main roster.
Of course I want to be champion because that means you're the best, but I just love wrestling, and if I can have good matches week in and week out, that would make me happy.
To me, wrestling always comes first.
I've beaten some of the wisest, most opportunistic and powerful women, and I will prove to Asuka that she is not unstoppable.
You know when you first meet someone and they shake your hand? Hugging is how I shake hands.
When I first started training, my trainer told me to stop smiling so much. It was just fun to me. I couldn't help it.
There's a little daredevil inside of me.
I would really like to go to Mexico.
If the coffee can taste so good with nothing else in it, then that's a good cup of coffee.
I loved 'WWF No Mercy' for the Nintendo 64. One of my favorites games was 'WCW Thunder.' I loved playing that game, and I loved being The Steiner Brothers. They were so cool, and they were some of the most powerful characters.
I started CrossFit before WrestleMania 33, and it's helped my body get a lot stronger.
I plan on headlining WrestleMania by WrestleMania 35.
It's been a long road for me coming from NXT. I've been with NXT for almost four years, and just getting to WWE, and now being able to travel with them, I kind of have to make new friends and get hotel rooms and travel in different cities every single night. It's very different, but it's so much fun.
With social media now, we kind of get that inside look at WWE Superstars' lives.
I love being the NXT Women's Champion.
I have a bunch of fan art. I love it.
It's just insane because, as a longtime WWE fan, I still have all of my action figures in storage. Now to have my own, and to see my nephews play with them, to see kids tweet me pictures with them, and to see people are actually going out of their way searching all of these stores trying to find them, it's really cool and humbling.
My goal is to be the women's champion, to main event on a regular basis, to be at 'WrestleMania.'
Honestly, I just want to wrestle! Like, I don't need to be in these crazy gimmick matches or always be working for the championship.
When I make my entrance to the ring or give someone a high-five, I want them to feel happy and always remember that moment.
I respect Asuka for all she's done in her career all over the globe and for what she's done here in NXT in such a short amount of time, but this is my home. The pride she has in Japanese wrestling, I have in NXT.
Bayley is a dream chaser. She's grown up watching the product, wrestling, WWE, everything. She knows everyone, from top to bottom, all the history. She's been motivated since she was 10-years-old and is finally here, trying to pursue the dream, live the dream to the fullest.
I kind of felt like maybe I didn't have what it took to look like a supermodel and wear high heels all the time and my nails.
Honestly, it's an insane, weird connection that I really feel with fans instantly when I come out, because I'm still very much a fan myself, and I still can't believe that I get to do this every single day.
I'm at the forefront of the NXT women's division, and it's really humbling to think that I'm not just a part of this new era but that I'm the leader of it.
It always sounds so cheesy when I say it, but whatever it is you want to do, just go for it. I don't care what it is: find a reputable school, or if you need to go to college or get the right training, just go do it and take little steps.
I was into 'Crash Bandicoot.' 'Croc.' I loved 'Twisted Metal.' And as far as the WWE and wrestling games? All of them. I played 'SmackDown! Just Bring It' and 'Smackdown vs. Raw.'
For me, the only way I know how to do this is to be myself. I actually learned that from 'The Dream' Dusty Rhodes. I was trying to be this wrestler, and I was trying to be cool, and Dusty literally told me, 'You've got to be yourself.' That's really how Bayley started, and that is what brought me this far.
I was really sensitive because people would say they thought I was a boy or call me a boy and stuff like that. I always had my hair back and, like I said, baggy clothes. So it was kind of sad. I didn't know what to do about it, and I didn't know what I was doing wrong because I was just being me.
I'm not here to put bruises on people's backs or to send them to the hospital. I'm here to put smiles on people's faces.
Asuka is just insane, and she has such a different background and things I've never seen before, so I'd say I'm a little bit more worried of Asuka because I don't know much about her.
