Fallon Sherrock Quotes

It didn't matter how good I was. It was always, 'You're a girl. You can't play with the guys.' It's always been motivation for me.

As a young girl, I'm always going to have to work a bit harder to prove myself; that's just reality. But having to work harder makes me feel like girls are stronger, too.

I think men are more adventurous in that they're more likely to take chances. Women play it safe. But now, maybe more of the women that see how it's working for the guys think, 'I can do that, too'. Maybe they'll pick male players, not necessarily female players; it's just whatever that match is that works for that player.

I'm out to prove that a guy 55 years old, with one foot in the grave, can play with the best woman in the world and maybe beat her. It'll be a big boost for men's superiority.

I always try to outdo the guys. It doesn't matter who you are. Even Sami Zayn - I want to have a better match than Sami Zayn, and he is absolutely incredible. I knew at a very young age that I wanted to change the definition of what it is to be a Diva and what it is to be a woman's wrestler.

When I decided to come back, I wanted to prove to the rest of the world I'm still the best.

There always will be stereotypes that women can't drive. When I hear the comments, it just makes me more determined to prove them wrong.

There is no pathway for female GB road cyclists, but at the same time, if you are wanting to be the best in the world, you have to forge your own pathway. It's not that things should be there on a plate for you. You have to work really hard, and that's what I've done, and I didn't let it stop me.

That mindset never changes. It should never change. If you've been in the league for 14 years or been in the league not even a day, you should have that mindset that you're going to go out there and prove yourself and earn a spot.

Always, I'm a competitor. Growing up, it's the same thing. I always wanted to compete and show how good I am. I did it in college to get the No. 1 pick, and now that I'm here, I'm going to keep getting better to prove I'm one of the best guards and players in the league. It's a long, slow grind, so I'm just taking my time every day.

You want to play, you don't want to be on the bench, I'm no different to anyone else in that regard.

I want to break the stereotype that when an actress becomes a mother, she can only do certain type of roles.

I've always played hard. That's how I was raised.

Maybe, as a Chinese woman, I was never told I would be a filmmaker, so I didn't have the ego set up.

I started racing BMX when I was five years old. I followed in my brother's footsteps, and I was a little tomboy. When I came into the sport, there wasn't many women. I raced with the boys; I looked up to the boys, and all my mentors were boys.

We need to go into every game believing we are going to win.

I shoot to win because I shoot to win, and that's it.

I'm a competitor. I'm going to compete each and every day to get better.

I am not the type who'd enter the best schools just to prove myself.

Every time I go out there, I have something to prove. Something more, something different.

There are challenging days - but I'd tell people they should really do what they are interested in and not think about their gender.

I love who I am. But being a woman competing in a male-dominated sport and always trying to push the envelope as a female athlete, you get a lot of comparisons to men and things like that.

I have always and will continue to put myself in the mix at the end of every tournament. That's what I play for.

I did take some cooking classes in high school. Boys weren't really supposed to take them. I had to risk being made fun of.

Everyone knows I'm going to come in there and I'm going to stop your takedowns.