Quotes from Nia Jax

Nia Jax is bringing a whole different message to the 'Women's Evolution.' Yes, we are athletic. Yes, we can go just as hard as the men, but women come in all different shapes and sizes.

I considered wrestling at a young age, but I never could relate to any of the Divas. I have always been a bigger girl, and I did not think that WWE would want a girl my size, so I never expressed my dream to wrestle.

When I was a young girl playing basketball, WNBA was a dream.

Even when I go out to the ring, yes, I am the big, bad heater monster, but I'm out there showing young girls that I can still be athletic just because I'm a big, bad heater. I can still go out there and cut promos like the other pretty girls and wear my hair down and put makeup on and do everything that they say that you can't.

I want young girls to be inspired to love themselves and strive to follow their dreams no matter what.

When I started coming on the scene, just really new into NXT, and people started seeing me, I got a lot of positive feedback from my friends, my friends back home. They were like, 'Oh, you are doing such great things for young girls,' and then it clicked in my head, like, 'Wow! I didn't know that was something I could do here.'

Most challenging, mainly for me, learning how to bump, learning to trust your body and trust somebody else with your body, when we're learning how to do bodyslams and suplexes and figuring out how to kick somebody right while making sure to protect each other. In the beginning, for me, a forward roll was pretty challenging.

I always had a love for the business. I remember hearing the stories about the patriarch of our family, 'High Chief' Peter Maivia, starting out wrestling in a rundown gym back in Auckland, New Zealand, then traveling the world, wrestling all over.

This is who I am. I am never going to be a size zero.

I never looked in the mirror and felt beautiful.

Basketball is my main sport, which I got a lot of scholarships through, but I chose modeling over basketball, though.

When I came back to go back to school on my time off from modeling, I went to Palomar.

This is how God made me, and this is what my momma gave me. I am proud of this.

Growing up, we were a poor yet tightknit family. My mother worked multiple jobs and always made sure that her kids never had to want for anything.

I've been an athlete my whole life. I've played every sport, including soccer, baseball, softball, basketball.

I always spread my message of body positivity and fashion for everybody.

I never thought I'd be able to spread the message of such body positivity, and just being positive in general, but I'm insanely grateful for it.

You should always stand up for yourself.

Your uniqueness is what makes you special, and that is beautiful.

Staying healthy adds to beauty. Even more importantly, it will increase your self-confidence. That's been my experience at least.

Sports helped me become super, super confident in my body growing up, especially in my high school and college careers. I wasn't going to be a hot prom chick that everyone wanted to go on dates with, but I was a stellar athlete.

I remember arriving to my tryout and being extremely nervous, but the second I stepped in the ring, I knew this was where I was supposed to be.

I remember I was playing basketball, and an entire arena was, like, chanting 'Big Foot.' It was a high school game, but... you're constantly being reminded you're bigger; you don't look like everybody. There were days where I would be upset, and, like, I'd cry about it.

Never allow a stigma or the popular thing to define you.