Top 50 Rhea Ripley Quotes

To become the first-ever NXT U.K. Women’s Champion, it’s a part of history.

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.

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.

Rhea is a goddess name.

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.

I’m trying to put forward that everyone should be comfortable in their own skin and they should be happy being themselves.

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

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.

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

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

I feel like once my career is all done and dusted, and I’ve done everything I could have possibly done, then that’s my glory. Then I can live, and have a normal life, and go have kids. I love wrestling, but when that day comes, I’m going back home and I’m starting a family.

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.

I watch too many crime shows – it’s ridiculous.

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.

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

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.

It makes me so happy to make everyone proud.

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.

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

Aww man, growing up listening to the sort of music that I listen to, there were a lot of times in class – mostly art class – where I’d sit in there and unknowingly headbang to the music and sing along to it. My friends would record it and send it to me, like, ‘Ugh, of course.’

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

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

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

It’s such a big step to move to a completely different country with pretty much no one.

I don’t like screwing up in any way possible.

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

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.

The tattoos on my legs started because they didn’t let me get tattoos on my upper body at work. They would never clear me for anything.

I am a nice person. I’ll put that out there.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I don’t think I can ever outgrow NXT.

How many people in the women’s division can say they wrestled Robert Stone? Just me. To me that’s cool. It doesn’t always matter if you’re in the title picture, you just gotta make the best of what you’re given and it was fun for me.

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

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 would love to step into the ring with Mercedes. I stepped into the ring with her in Australia when I was 17 years old. To be able to step into a WWE ring with her would be incredible.

At home, I think the largest crowd I ever wrestled was in front of 500 people.

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

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 would definitely love to step into the ring with Ronda Rousey.

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