Quotes from Rhea Ripley

To be honest, I have a lot of mental demons in life and wrestling has definitely helped me out with that.

It's great to see wrestling expand and get the attention it deserves. It's such a great, great sport.

I always knew that I was destined for something big in this world.

My dream since being a little girl is to be the most tattooed human ever.

I could try to be the most tattooed person ever, but I don't think that's ever gonna happen.

Being the first-ever NXT U.K. women's champion was just an absolute honor and privilege in itself.

Me being me, I feed off the crowd a lot.

My whole life I've had people telling me that I look like a man, I'm not feminine, I'm too masculine, all that stuff.

I am a nice human, but I've also got Italian in my family. My mom's side is Italian and my mom is a very scary human being. I get a lot of that intensity and snap straight into it from her. She's legit terrifying. Lovely girl. Lovely mother but when she gets angry, she's absolutely terrifying. She's a damn monster.

Especially being a punk and all that, I love my look and I don't care if someone doesn't like it.

I want to see how far I can get in my career and just keep pushing myself to the limit every time and do my best pretty much.

Music does help me a lot with my character, with the fact that I have to have a really good theme song, something that I can get into while I'm walking down the ramp. It puts me into that mindset that I'm going into a mosh pit.

I read a lot of things on Twitter, and I see a lot of things about Shayna and about me. I absolutely hate it when they rag on her and say she's boring. She's a heel, she's not supposed to be exciting. She's not supposed to make you like her.

Rhea is a goddess name.

I just wish that people were kinder.

I'd rather be real in the ring then someone who is trying to play a character.

Guilty pleasure - I love Falling in Reverse. Ronnie Radke is just amazing.

My work ethic is don't stop until you reach the top pretty much and I put in dedication every single day of my life, I'm glad it's paying off.

Things in life change very frequently... things get thrown at you all the time. You just have to be ready for anything in this business - that's wrestling. It's just life, really.

I want to make history.

There is always something coming up and I honestly want to be in NXT for a long long time.

I want to see how far I can get, how many history making things I can put my name under.

If I can be the champion of NXT I don't even know how to put it into words. It would be so humbling and appreciative, but also I would prove to everyone why I should be NXT Women's Champion.

At the first Mae Young Classic, I was just trying to make everyone happy, I was just trying to do my job and I was listening to too many people at once.