Quotes from Charlotte Flair

I don't think there's anything else in the world that my dad loves talking about more than wrestling.

I guess because I never pictured myself wrestling, I find myself wanting to push every limit possible in this industry.

I was always around wrestling. I went to shows, but I never pictured myself where I am today. My brothers, David and Reid, were more into wrestling. When they wrestled, it was hard on my brothers because they were always compared to my dad.

Anyone can enjoy a wrestling match, but it's how you feel about that person that takes it to another level.

Sitting front row with my little brother, my older brother, and my dad's wife at the time - seeing 80,000 people at the Citrus Bowl emotionally pouring their hearts out watching my dad retire - I didn't even grasp what he meant to the industry. I didn't even fully grasp it until I started wrestling myself.

I want to be a larger-than-life superstar who is known worldwide, outside of the WWE.

When I first started in the WWE, I had a really hard time because I didn't look the part.

I spent the whole time I've been in WWE trying to build this character who is unbreakable, who is not vulnerable, and who is not relatable. For me to let down my guard and let people in, I had to make that decision, and once I did, I had to own it.

We continue to hire women who seem to already be polished and who have already made it outside of WWE and whose whole goal was to get to WWE.

I am all athlete, and that's important, that my looks have nothing to do with what I do in the WWE.

I think what people don't realize is the transition from NXT to the main roster is a big jump. It's getting a whole new audience familiar with a certain character. If you debut too many women at one time, it's hard for the audience to get to know, understand, and see the rise of that character.

The biggest moment in our business is when you walk through that curtain, and if you don't believe in yourself, the fans won't believe in you or invest in you, and they see that.

Most of Charlotte's character is really who she is. A lot of who Ashley is is Charlotte and the same with my dad. It's not like I'm the Joker.

I wasn't used to people critiquing how I looked. And then always hearing, 'God she looks like Ric Flair.' Yes, he's my dad. Who am I supposed to look like? I took it so serious and to heart.

No one ever has a chance to get to know the real me because I do play a bad guy, and sometimes it's hard to soak in the comments or the negativity because that's the response you want to elicit. I am a normal person, but that's part of the job. I'm playing a character, and that's my role.

My comfort zone and where I feel most natural is being a heel.

Everyone always says, 'You must have always wanted to be just like your dad.' But my dad's career had nothing to do with my journey.

Being undefined somewhat makes me nervous, but what I do know is I'm 100 percent confident in who Charlotte is.

I didn't even think about good guy, bad guy when I started. I was that unfamiliar with the business.

I could do a standing back flip at 13.

That's my message: I'm not alone, and neither is anyone else.

The most important thing is for women not to tear other women down. Everyone in our division is helping each other, and that's a message we send behind the scenes: that we are a unit and working to make the best product and highlight women as strong and independent superstars.

I almost think there's a mystique to not knowing everything about me.

I spent my whole upbringing in sporting camps. I didn't do cotillion.