Top 60 Charlotte Flair Quotes

My comfort zone and where I feel most natural is being a heel.

I almost think there’s a mystique to not knowing everything about me.

That’s my message: I’m not alone, and neither is anyone else.

It’s so hard to tell people I’m in a video game… just because I grew up with my dad being in a video game.

I never saw the female ‘Ghostbusters,’ but that’s mainly because of my job, not because I wouldn’t enjoy it.

I idolize my dad because he was such a hard worker.

I think I definitely work out of my father’s shadow, but it was hard in the beginning. But I would never change my last name, and I couldn’t be more proud to carry on his legacy.

I want to be the first female to main-event WrestleMania, and I just want to continue to get better and better and continue my dad’s legacy.

I spent 26 years watching my dad, and I didn’t know anything about the business until I started myself.

I’d love to be an action hero.

No one understands what it’s like to walk in the shadow of a famous father, let alone Ric Flair, in the wrestling industry.

I’m so proud of my body. I’m so proud to be an athlete. I wouldn’t change anything.

The most challenging thing that female wrestlers face is time. Getting those segments on Raw, getting one, two, three, four segments on SmackDown, main-eventing a pay-per-view, being considered a face of the division… And I have said it since day one: I want to be an attraction for the company.

I never felt comfortable in my own skin, and I feel like I missed out on a lot of high school experiences because I was so worried about where I fit in because I was so confused.

Growing up with a famous father, and one who mastered his craft, it’s one of those things where, do you really want to be in the same profession? I can’t imagine the pressure on, say, Michael Jordan’s kids. But for me, I think it’s molded me into the character that I am today.

I think what people don’t realize is the transition from NXT to the main roster is a big jump. It’s getting a whole new audience familiar with a certain character. If you debut too many women at one time, it’s hard for the audience to get to know, understand, and see the rise of that character.

No one ever has a chance to get to know the real me because I do play a bad guy, and sometimes it’s hard to soak in the comments or the negativity because that’s the response you want to elicit. I am a normal person, but that’s part of the job. I’m playing a character, and that’s my role.

I wasn’t used to people critiquing how I looked. And then always hearing, ‘God she looks like Ric Flair.’ Yes, he’s my dad. Who am I supposed to look like? I took it so serious and to heart.

Nothing is more important in our industry than respect.

My dad was able to wrestle so many great Japanese wrestlers.

I think Asuka is a superstar. She is incredibly talented, and she made a name for herself even before coming to NXT.

Anyone can enjoy a wrestling match, but it’s how you feel about that person that takes it to another level.

I didn’t start my career or, really, my life before I came to Florida.

I do want to carry on my dad’s legacy, but I also want to carve out my own path. I have to work harder, I think, just because I do have that last name. I don’t want people to think that’s why I am where I am in this industry. I put in the time, and I want to be just as good as my dad was.

We continue to hire women who seem to already be polished and who have already made it outside of WWE and whose whole goal was to get to WWE.

I was always around wrestling. I went to shows, but I never pictured myself where I am today. My brothers, David and Reid, were more into wrestling. When they wrestled, it was hard on my brothers because they were always compared to my dad.

The hard part for me was not the wrestling – it was showing emotion, telling a story, and being able to connect with fans. Coming out as Ric Flair’s daughter and being called athletically gifted, it’s hard to say, ‘Hey, like me! You can relate to me!’ It wasn’t working, so I completely switched my character.

I didn’t even think about good guy, bad guy when I started. I was that unfamiliar with the business.

I want to know that I am putting 30,000 individuals in seats in arenas. That’s my goal.

When I started wrestling and then turned into the Evil Queen, I created this character who I needed in my personal life. This woman who is strong, intelligent, confident, empowering. That’s what I needed in my personal life.

I spent the whole time I’ve been in WWE trying to build this character who is unbreakable, who is not vulnerable, and who is not relatable. For me to let down my guard and let people in, I had to make that decision, and once I did, I had to own it.

My character, Charlotte, is very confident, and I try to be more like my character in real life. Not that I’m not confident, but I’ve really found my personal growth through work.

When I debuted on the main roster, people just hated me. They were booing me. Social media got to me a bit. They were like, ‘She’s just there because she’s Ric Flair’s daughter.’ I was like, ‘Why doesn’t anybody like me?’ It really got to me.

When I first started in the WWE, I had a really hard time because I didn’t look the part.

Women tend to overthink things.

If you had asked me in my early 20s or in high school if I was going to wrestle, I would have laughed at you.

The dedication it must take to be part of R.O.T.C. was always interesting to me.

When I won the NXT women’s title from Natalya at Full Sail, becoming the second-ever woman’s champion for NXT, that’s when I knew, ‘Okay, I’m doing the right thing,’ and that I could do this.

I look at myself in NXT, and then I look at how far I’ve come on the main roster. I just think in my mind if I keep working as hard as I do and keep giving it my all that I will continue to get better.

I definitely think Natalya is one of the greatest of all time.

‘Raw’ wants to be the better brand; ‘SmackDown’ wants to be the better brand. A bunch of alphas on both brands.

I am not necessarily a private person, but I am Charlotte Flair on camera, and that is playing a character.

Why do something unless you are going to be the best at it?

I hope I continue to evolve.

I never pictured myself as an entertainer or a superstar or a model or anything like that.

If you look at the Rock’s crossover, Stone Cold, my dad too, in his era, I want to do that. I want to mean that much to the industry. That’s just a matter of working harder every single day.

If someone says something vulgar to you and you retweet it, now you’re giving them a voice, and you never want to give hate a voice.

That is a message I hope to send and that I know all the other women hope to send: that no matter what your job is or what you want to achieve in life, anything you set your mind to, you can do.

Professionally, I’m a perfectionist, and to allow people to see that maybe I wasn’t always perfect or put together – that my actual personal life was very messy at times… it was scary to let people know that.

I didn’t want to hurt my parents’ feelings about how hard certain things were in my 20s, how hard it was when my dad left my senior year before I went to college.

I didn’t think of my size as an advantage or as something that I could use to be dominant. I didn’t carry myself in the ring with the confidence that I should have.

I’ve always been a big fan of the Body Issue. Growing up as an athlete and having a very athletic body, I was always able to relate to them and look up to the athletes who posed for it.

I’m built for wrestling. I have a high pain tolerance. My nose has been broken a couple times. Black eyes.

I had an athletic body my whole life.

I walked out very nervous, my first WrestleMania, and I had my dad beside me.

I guess because I never pictured myself wrestling, I find myself wanting to push every limit possible in this industry.

I know, some kids, their parents have nothing in common and don’t ever talk. I can call my dad at 3 o’clock in the morning, and I know he is going to answer.

I played volleyball in college. I was the girl next door, never wanted to be in the limelight.

I started in NXT when we were still FCW in Tampa.

Everyone always says, ‘You must have always wanted to be just like your dad.’ But my dad’s career had nothing to do with my journey.