Shaquille O'Neal Quotes

I hate women's basketball.

If we have a situation where a man is particularly graceful in a sport that rewards grace - say, for example, figure skating - why is it that we don't say to the man, 'Well, you're too feminine to compete?'... I don't understand why we don't find it offensive also to say to a women who's very strong, 'You're too masculine to compete.'

When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

Control of females is mandatory for a successful, civilized, humane and compassionate society

That's the trouble with the women's game. Those women think they're men, and they go off hitting all over the place. They'd be better off if they'd played like women.

When young women get called bossy, it's often because they're trying to exercise power without status. It's not a problem that they're being dominant; the backlash arises because they're overstepping their status.

An all-women championship is giving up on the mission of eventually making girls compete on a high level and against the boys in Formula One. It is undermining what girls are able to achieve.

I've played for boys' teams.

The reality is, like, women's basketball players are playing against women. And we're all in the same boat the same way men's sports is.

Usually men, usually a guy, a casual fan of maybe the NBA and somebody who then watches the WNBA, their instinct is quick to kind of size us up or put themselves against us.

Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.

A level of negativity around women working in men's sport is still present in the U.K., but I keep reminding myself that I'm there to do a job and add a different perspective.

We just do not get the recognition or the opportunity to play against these men, so obviously you don't see it that often.

I can't really see women in football, I don't like to say it but that's how it is.

Whenever people say 'women's soccer,' I want to correct them to say 'soccer.' Every girl has had their sport diminished because they're girls.

We've actually played badly, and people are saying, 'Ah, we're so proud.' Is it just because we're the women's team? If that was the men, you wouldn't be saying that.

Mia: I can't do this, I'm a girl. Gym Teacher Harbula: What am I? A duck?

There is no logical reason why girls shouldn't play baseball. It's not all that tough.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.

On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

Unfortunately, music is a male-dominated industry. It's not that there aren't plenty of women working in the industry, it's just, the higher up you go... it's like how women who play in the WNBA make so little, compared to men in the NBA.

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.

I played on an all-boys team in the 8th grade, but they wouldnt throw me the ball even though I was on their team. One day I stole the ball from my own teammate and I made a basket. From that point on, everyone yelled Give the ball to the girl! I was the only girl on the whole league!