Leadership Quote by Trish Stratus

A little corporate shrug hiding inside a victory lap: “We got great ratings and fan interest, and that’s what management wanted” is Trish Stratus translating spectacle into KPI. On the surface, it’s pragmatic, even proud. Underneath, it’s the tell that in pro wrestling, especially in her era, merit was often measured less by craft or risk than by the numbers a performer could pull and the noise they could generate.

The phrasing does a lot of work. “We got” frames success as collective labor - the women, the agents, the crew, the whole machine - while also nudging responsibility away from any one decision-maker. “Management wanted” isn’t “what the audience loved” or “what we believed in.” It’s a reminder that the ultimate audience is upstairs, and the product is built to satisfy executives tracking quarters, not just crowds chanting in the arena.

Context matters: Stratus came up during WWE’s late-90s/2000s boom, when women were routinely slotted into roles where “interest” could mean titillation as much as athletic credibility. Her line reads like someone who knows how to survive that system: speak in the language power respects, claim results, avoid moralizing. It’s not cynical exactly, but it’s seasoned - the voice of a performer who learned that visibility is negotiated, and validation often arrives packaged as a metric.

The sting is that it’s both empowerment and indictment. She’s asserting impact while quietly admitting the scoreboard was never neutral.