Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian wrestler Rhea Ripley.
Last updated on November 9, 2024.
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 wanna make my family proud, I wanna make Australia proud, all of that.
Rhea is a goddess name.
Me being me, I feed off the crowd a lot.
It makes me so happy to make everyone proud.
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.
Being in the Rumble means that people are watching you.
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 want to see how far I can get, how many history making things I can put my name under.
I've always been vocal in my matches, and I've always made a lot of noises, a lot of random noises.
Having people like Triple H and Shawn Michaels at the performance center, it's just insane.
I've always wanted to have a match where I get to use weapons and I never got that back home.
It's such a big step to move to a completely different country with pretty much no one.
Nothing but respect for Io Shirai. We respect each other, we really do.
I grew up wanting to be a professional wrestler, and that's exactly what I'm going to keep doing.
I'm always learning in wrestling. It's something that you never stop learning in.
My dad is just chill.
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.
The momentum that I had before winning the NXT Women's Championship was incredible. I was doing absolutely everything and anything.
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 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.
Starting at 16 in Australia at Riot City Wrestling, I learned a lot about myself and wrestling in general.
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.
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 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.
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 always knew that I was destined for something big in this world.
I am a nice person. I'll put that out there.
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.
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 would definitely love to step into the ring with Ronda Rousey.
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.
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 just wish that people were kinder.
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.
At the end of the day, Black Lives Matter and we all know this and I get when people say all lives matter, I understand.
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.
To be honest, I have a lot of mental demons in life and wrestling has definitely helped me out with that.