In an interview with Aaron Oster of The Baltimore Sun, former WWE Diva and TNA Knockout Mickie James discussed her recent sting as a guest trainer at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.

“I mean, I know what sparked that interest in it was me reaching out and seeing what opportunities were available or any interest in me at all and that’s when they talked about if I was interested in going down and working with the girls there and feeling that whole trainer position out and seeing if it was something that I was even good at. I’ve never trained anyone in my life, I’ve been fortunate enough to really work with amazing people and have incredible people lead me along the way. Any chance I had to work with Ricky Steamboat or Bobby Eaton, that’s what I did when I was trying to make it, was soak up knowledge from all those people before I went to developmental. I felt like developmental really was that fine-tuning experience with me.

I can’t say that I’ve done all this stuff in wrestling, but at the same time, there is a bit of that humbleness that I feel like if I can give someone that knowledge, or pass something on that’s going to help them, so perhaps they don’t make the same mistakes that you made, or it’s going to better them as a performer, then you always want to give back. Someone told me a long time ago that you always want to leave the business better than when you walked into it. This would be an opportunity to do that. Whether I’m in that right position right now, as far as being a trainer, I’m not sure. I have so much stuff going on right now between the music and still wrestling and other side projects I’m working on right now and with that kind of job, I’d have to give up everything else and I’m not sure if I’m in a place to do that right now and obviously that could change tomorrow, but, who’s to say.”

The interview is available in full at this link.