Quotes from Rhea Ripley

I don't care how young I am, I'm going to work until I'm at the top.

I love Hot Topic, it's like my No. 1 store.

I want to do all the pay-per-views and wrestle everyone.

I worked hard every single day to become the NXT Women's Champion, and first of all to be the first-ever person to be from NXT to defend a championship from here at WrestleMania is absolutely insane.

To be knowing that I'm going to WrestleMania 36 to face Charlotte Flair and put my NXT championship on the line is just absolutely insane.

To be able to be the first person from NXT to defend their NXT Championship at WrestleMania is awesome and I love making history.

I grew up wanting to be a professional wrestler, and that's exactly what I'm going to keep doing.

Growing up in South Australia, you didn't really hear about wrestling much. It was mostly on the weekends at stupid hours in the morning when I was playing sport.

When I went to NXT U.K. and I was part of the women's championship tournament, I saw all of those people and I was absolutely floored. I had never wrestled in front of that many people before.

It's insane to have people recognize me for my work and get behind me.

Going into work and seeing Shawn Michaels - someone I watched growing up - how many people can say that? That they get to see people like Shawn Michaels at work and that they get to learn off Shawn Michaels. To me that's insane.

I had a tryout in Australia when I was 17 years old. The WWE contacted my trainers and asked who would be a few names that they would put forward for a tryout. My name was thrown in there, which I had only been wrestling for a year, and so I sent them back all my information after they emailed me and I was super excited.

I feel like I have so much more to do here. Whether that's singles matches or whatever, I love NXT and I love being a part of it.

I went to Japan for three months and I learned a lot about strong style over there.

I guess glory just means, like, knowing that I did my best and I got as far as I could.

Triple H is someone I've looked up to since I was a little girl.

Sometimes you need a confidence boost in anything you do and it's nice to get that from someone like Triple H.

To think how far I've come from wrestling in little Adelaide, South Australia, to now having Triple H say nice words about me and putting me over everyone is wild.

Having people like Triple H and Shawn Michaels at the performance center, it's just insane.

I get stuff every single day whether that be comments on my Instagram photos, or tweets about a tweet that I put out. Just tweets that they make in general to just pick on me, make me feel bad about myself, belittle me or anything. It's not good.

The momentum that I had before winning the NXT Women's Championship was incredible. I was doing absolutely everything and anything.

I remember the first time I went on live TV I had to cut a promo, and I spoke about this on Lillian Garcia's podcast Chasing Glory, but I'm not very good at public speaking.

I love The Miz! I absolutely love him. He's so snarky and that's who I want to be. I want to have cool comebacks and get people to listen to me and be invested in me. Even CM Punk - when he spoke, everyone listened.

I'm always learning in wrestling. It's something that you never stop learning in.