Steph Houghton Quotes

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

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.

I remember when Manchester United came into the league and I remember saying, 'Wow, this is huge. This is huge for a club like this to have a women's team.' It's so important for clubs with all this tradition, history, power, influence to have a women's team and to see the progress that they've made and what they've put into it.

The Women's World Cup gives FIFA a chance, once every four years, to showcase the growth of women's soccer. It gives FIFA a highly visible opportunity to encourage countries around the globe to also support their women's programs. It gives FIFA the forum to show countries the potential of women's soccer if only you support it.

I wanted this title to matter, I wanted women's wrestling to matter.

This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.

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

I think that the potential of Total Divas and female athletes is that the sky is the limit. People want to know about these women, and in the WWE, we call it the Divas Revolution - it's a movement for women's empowerment.

For women's football in this country, it's important we do play in the best stadiums, and for me, Wembley is the best in this country.

Women's football will always be different from men's football, but that doesn't mean you cannot still appreciate it. OK, so it might be a bit slower than the men's game, but then League Two football is slower than the Champions League, and it doesn't stop people turning out to see their local teams.

I think with the Mae Young Classic, bringing in 30 women from all over the world shows what an impact women have in the company.

The women's game has grown, but when I was playing at Arsenal, I don't think people realised how good we actually were. I think there's just a perception that we just play football, but we're not very good, and it was a challenge for us to try and prove those type of people wrong.

I didn't want to walk into WWE and be someone who just does bikini matches and played second fiddle to the guys. I wanted to stand out, make people excited to see women's wrestling, and show them we can be better than the men.

The girls are working so hard to put female wrestling on the map and to make it as big as the men. To see it actually happening... I'm so grateful.

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

I think that the significance of the WNBA is that it has given women a different platform and a different level of respect as professionals, both as players and also in our coaching.

First-ever woman to have an iron-man match. It's been such a long time, to be the second woman ever to main event a Raw.

In my mind, women's basketball players are an untapped resource.

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

Just normalising the idea of women playing football is a massive part of what we need to do.

I think the legacy Ronda leaves behind is that she changed women's MMA.

The WWE universe finally demanded that the girls get the attention that they deserve. I think women past, present, future, should forever be grateful for our super fans.

If we, as a group, can change people's view from thinking they're watching football as opposed to women's football, then I think we've been successful.

For the average person walking down the street, they don't even know a women's soccer league exists in this country.

We want more opportunities for women's players throughout the world.