Believing in yourself and having confidence gives you outer strength.
Nikki Bella
My first nephew, he couldn't say Auntie Nicole, so he called me Coco. So ever since then, everyone's called me 'Coco.'
It's crazy what can happen in a decade and how much you can grow as a person and as a woman and truly find your voice.
When you've got curves - you need to show them, and I love showing mine!
That's all I can be is fearless.
The one thing I've said before, the one thing that I've been taught is that when you fall, you get right back up. And I'm up.
I can't tell you how proud I am of all the Total Divas and just how excited I am about how well the show is doing.
Now, actually, I can prove the people that I'm an individual; I just don't have to be a Bella Twin to make a name for myself here. I can be Nikki Bella, Fearless Nikki, and I've really enjoyed that.
I'm the Princess of The Authority.
If I didn't have competition and I didn't have people trying to take my spot, then it can make someone lazy. So it does the exact opposite. It motivates me.
When we started training with WWE, coaches were impressed and asked if we had had boxing training. I said no, it was all soccer. As a defender, I had to learn to stay on my feet, track backwards, and I feel all the movement I do in the ring was helped by my soccer background.
I was going through puberty and was much curvier than other girls, which made me insecure. Then I saw J. Lo on the cover of 'Latina' magazine, and she embraced those curves and was proud of who she was.
I've been an athlete and competitor my whole life, and there's nothing more that I get off on than competition.
My idol was Jennifer Lopez.
Because my man is handsome and successful, that makes me a gold digger? First of all, I pay my own bills, and I still pay my own bills. But if your man is gonna give you a gift, you're gonna accept it. I'm not gonna be like, 'No, can you please take back the Louis Vuitton purse?' Absolutely not.
WWE is my home, and I will always stay with the WWE in some part, whether it's an ambassador, or maybe one day you'll see Nikki Bella as a GM, and no one can touch me.
We're here in this women's revolution - we're in this women's empowerment movement worldwide - and, if anything, women should stick up for each other and be like, 'No, she deserves everything she has, and she's worked hard as a woman.'
I will admit, the dominatrix look has won me over!
I think any time you hear that you're about to paralyze yourself, or even worse, it's just scary because you start to realize how precious life is.
I do talk pretty valley. I totally have this look, and I'm so in love with my man, he makes me talk in a weird voice, and you can just make fun of me easy.
To me, nothing is more fun than being in that ring. That ring is just my heart; it's my passion.
I truly feel like I'm a living Wonder Woman.
That wrestling ring is home for me; it's my passion. I love what I do.
Women are taking the main stage. They are center stage, and they're setting all these records and making history, and I want I be a part of that. I've worked so hard to be a part of that.
I used to love wrestling Beth Phoenix, and I loved everything Beth Phoenix did in the ring because it was like, 'Goodness. That beautiful woman is so strong.'
I'm a pleaser, but it's not a good thing because you forget about pleasing yourself at the end of the day.
Naturally, Brie and I bicker, like, every 10 minutes about everything in life.
Reality TV is a lot about drama, but for the first time in a long time, you actually have role models on TV.
I always had this perception that when you lift weights, you're going to get bulky and thick. I didn't realize you actually burn a lot of fat and that it trims you down.
For me, nothing is off limits.
I think my mom is kind of this way, too. We're just such strong women. My mom's been through so much, so I think that's where I got it from.
When I leave this world, I don't want to leave just having a well-known name but having made a difference.
I was maturing in a way that all my friends weren't. How is it that I'm 10, and I look 15, and all my friends don't?
I remember walking home one day from school, and this car pulled up behind me really slow, and it gave me a really weird feeling, and all of a sudden it skimmed me, and the man was half naked and tried to pull me into his car and saying crazy things to me. And it was terrifying.
My goal is to have the best Divas reign in Divas history.
When I saw Kate Moss's champagne tower from her wedding, I was like, 'Okay, check - I want that. I want fireworks.'
I'm very easy to impersonate. From the look to the personality, I'm like, wow.
I see traits of my body in my mother and grandmother, and it makes me proud. This shape isn't going anywhere.
You watch someone, and you see how they are, and sometimes you can use that against them.
You can't just be anyone who is off the streets and come do what we do. You have to train, and there has to be something within you. You have to have athletic ability... What we do is 100 percent athletic. I feel like it's one of the top athletic programs out there when you consider professional sports.
Even though a lot of people keep trying to get me to retire, I won't.
We fell in love with wrestling, and then we really wanted to break barriers, and we now get to do that because that's evolved beyond the ring.
I was loving being the champion, and I wasn't listening to my body. I almost felt like I was untouchable in a way - that I could just keep going and everything would be OK.
When you have such a love and passion for wrestling and you love to work, you want to get in with good workers.
We started to have more women and little girls in our audience, where it started to be 40 percent female that sat in our live audience. So I think, when that was happening and the women were stepping up and saying, 'Hey we can do what the men do,' and then you saw it on a reality show, it was just inevitable for us to have this women's evolution.
Everyone used to tell me, 'Just so you know, Divas only last five years around here.' I said, 'What? I want to be here forever!'
I truly enjoyed my pay-per-view match against Brie. We have a bond that you just can't create. We're born with it, and we had this magic in the ring.
It shocks me, the rumors people start: that I have the title because of my boyfriend. If that was the case, I would have gotten the title when I came back years ago and still had the title. He has nothing to do with it.
I am so excited to be an aunt.
When someone thinks they're good at something, you can use it against them, and that's what we did. We did the kiss of death.
