Ricky Steamboat Quotes

I love women's wrestling.

It's awesome to see the evolution of the women's division in WWE.

I would say at leaner times in the women's division, I feel like there were certain girls who tried to keep the torch going for women's wrestling. If I was one of those women then I feel like I did my job.

Femininity and sport can go together.

Can you do inter-gender matches? Ronda Rousey and our match at Wrestlemania - sure, it can be done. Women don't need a man in their match to steal the show. They just need an equal platform and opportunity, and if the women have it, they will work just as hard, if not harder, than anybody else to steal that show.

I think the Divas Champion is the perfect combination of athleticism, beauty and brawn.

Especially with the ladies' game, I have proved we can compete with all these men.

I think the success of 'Total Divas' has opened people's eyes to women in wrestling and to WWE divas.

I tip my hat to the long list of girls that have really taken wrestling up a notch.

All of us follow men's cricket because we want at some point that women's cricket would be up there.

I'm enormously proud that I can do a deal with the National Women's Soccer League to showcase the power and passion of women athletes as positive role models, not only for my daughter but also for my son.

When I was a kid, the women like Mia Hamm and Brandi Chastain were paving the way for female players in the States. Things like that are important so girls realise there is a future for them if they want to play. It is something they can aspire to, to be not just a hobby.

I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.

I prefer just a women's race. It's a totally different game mentally.

There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.

The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.

The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.

When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

Women play just as hard as guys do. We're just as competitive.

When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my role models. I never dreamt that I could be at that level. I remember thinking they seemed so elegant and regal and powerful and feminine.

Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.

When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.