The Bella Twins spoke with The International Business Times during Super Bowl 49 weekend in Phoenix. The full interview is available at this link. Below are some highlights:

How have John Cena and Daniel Bryan helped you improve in the ring?

Brie: I give a lot of credit to my husband. When we first started dating a little over four years ago, we would go to the ring early and it would be one on one. He’d be like “I know you can do this, do that,” and he was never easy on me. It was like “No Brie, do it 100 times.” And he watches all my matches and when I come back he’s like “You need to work on this, this and this.”

I love watching Japanese wrestling, and then Bryan will be like “Watch this” or “See this.” He’s taken me higher than the next level. He’s taken me 10 levels up and in such an enjoyable way, and I just learned so much. And the thing is my husband wants the best for me and he knows all my strengths. So he really showcases that. And I feel like the same for Nikki.

Nikki: I used to love wrestling Beth Phoenix, and I loved everything Beth Phoenix did in the ring because it was like, “Goodness. That beautiful woman is so strong.” And I feel like we kind of missed out on that. We don’t have any of our powerhouses, so I when was starting to squat more and more and really realize my strength, I was like “I want to be that strong girl in the ring.” I’ll never be what Beth Phoenix was. She has strength that is just unheard of and I can’t compete with her strength. I just couldn’t, but I’m almost there. So John and I would talk and he would say “You have to bring that strength to the ring. Be that powerhouse. Start thinking of moves.” And I just started watching all this footage and (thinking) “What are the powerhouse things I could start doing to the girls and what can I start practicing?”

So he totally inspired me and motivated me, and then when I was enjoying the stuff and the reactions, it made me want to do more and more powerhouse things. It’s unfortunate because right now I have a strained hamstring, and when you try to do powerhouse stuff with a strained hamstring you just can’t, and I had to keep my arsenal very basic at the (Royal Rumble) PPV because I can’t squat. I can’t lift anyone up. So that’s when it sucks when you know powerhouse stuff and you’re injured. But I totally took his weightlifting and brought that into the ring.