Sheryl Swoopes Quotes

I'm the biggest draw in the sport, and I'm a woman.

I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

There are women in every genre having a lot of success. Why not celebrate that?

Women today are respected as athletes now and that's a really cool thing to see.

I am very happy that Indian women are making their mark in sports be is Sakshi Malik or even PV Sindhu who also won a medal for the country. We talk about women empowerment and there cannot be any bigger example than this.

Women are stepping up, they are performing, they are showing that we are athletes as well and we deserve the attention we are getting.

I feel that I am in a business that is a credit to the womanhood of our race.

I didn't know I was the first woman to have won three world titles, but hey, that's awesome!

I think to downplay a woman's role in sports is not a good idea because a lot of women love sport, whether they watch it, report on it or work on a team.

There's more women who can play like me if not better and we just need more recognition really.

I just love seeing other females work.

It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

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.

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

I'm really encouraged by the progress I've seen with what they're doing with the women in WWE, but I feel like there's a lot more than can be done.

I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives.

You are not any different. You can do anything you want. So many times, I've been asked what I think of women stand-ups. If you actually look around, there are so many female comedians starring in the biggest TV shows.

I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.

There’s a woman at the beginning of all great things.

The greatest achievement for a woman is to be as seldom as possible spoken of.

When I was first starting out was also when I first started really paying attention to the Oscars and stuff like that. And I remember thinking, 'Wow, everything is great for women in Hollywood, because Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jessica Lange, Sally Field - they're all doing incredible work.'

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.

It's wonderful that we're portraying women in this way so that young women can see that women actually are strong and capable of accomplishing all kinds of things.

I do like to get inspired by and support any female leads.

It's so great that women are being allowed to be heroes in big things.