Quotes from Rhea Ripley

Starting at 16 in Australia at Riot City Wrestling, I learned a lot about myself and wrestling in general.

I've always been vocal in my matches, and I've always made a lot of noises, a lot of random noises.

I watch too many crime shows - it's ridiculous.

At the end of the day, Black Lives Matter and we all know this and I get when people say all lives matter, I understand.

I always give credit to Scotty 2 Hotty. He is an amazing teacher. I was in his class for, I want to say three months and I learned so much and he helped me grow, not only as a performer, but as a person. He was always there for me.

Training with only girls is good and beneficial because we work with each other and there is no intergender in WWE.

I think training with guys is a big thing that everyone needs to do.

At the second Mae Young Classic, I came out sporting my new look, everything that I wanted to do. I had the new aggression that I knew I always had, because I've always been, like, a brutal child.

I look up to so many powerful women who succeeded before me and I'm here doing my thing to inspire women who will come after me.

Everyone has seen the serious side of myself and sometimes I need to take a chill pill and have a good laugh. That's who I am as a person.

It's funny 'cause the Rhea Ripley that everyone sees, I've looked into that personality so many times before, just at home, in concerts, in mosh pits.

The person you see in the ring is me in a mosh pit, pretty much. I am that character, I don't even like calling it a character. It's just me.

I wanna make my family proud, I wanna make Australia proud, all of that.

My dad is just chill.

If I can be the one to dethrone Shayna Baszler you will be seeing a very cocky Rhea Ripley.

Don't be mean to people because of their skin colour, because of what they love, because of who they love, because of what they want to do.

I'm confident in Rhea, but not in Demi Bennett.

I've always wanted to have a match where I get to use weapons and I never got that back home.

We're not the characters that we portray online, and even if we are, we're a 10-time version of ourselves. That's still not us. Most of the things we do, we wouldn't do in person.

I like being me and portraying myself in a certain way that makes me feel comfortable and confident.

I would love to be able to compete against Raquel Gonzalez. She debuted on NXT TakeOver: Portland helping Dakota Kai defeat Tegan Nox and I would definitely like to stand toe-to-toe with her at an NXT TakeOver event.

I feel like everyone that is in this profession deals with bullying in social media and it's sad. It's a lot of people thinking we don't see it, because we get a lot of things on social media, but at the end of the day, we see these things.

If the championship has to be defended, the championship has to be defended.

If I didn't work for WWE, I feel like I would just delete Twitter! It's just so poisonous, it's horrible. It's a horrible place and I don't really want to be on it, but I have to for work.