Ada Hegerberg Quotes

Young boys and girls should be given the chance to play football.

I never had a problem with the people I was close to because I was playing football with them, and they knew I could play. It didn't matter that I was a girl.

The Women's Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I'm excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders.

You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.

The movie, 'Remember the Titans,' is my favorite movie, staring Denzel Washington. I love the way in this movie the game of football brings those boys together, it unites those boys on that football field. It unites a whole town, black, white, old, young, rich and poor.

Pity the Party without enough woman power - there will always be dreamers and leaders, but the dreams won't come true, nor will the leaders reach their goal, without the ready doers.

When Thierry Henry was U19 coach at Arsenal he gave me a lot of advice. His main thing was staying grounded.

We are a great fit, and I'm excited about the chance to influence a new generation of young footballers alongside Warrior.

I want to teach the young people the way I see football. The way I eat, the way I am in training.

Theoretically, I have no business starting an organization called Girls Who Code, because I don't code.

I think people admire us for dedicating our lives to be professional athletes. But we need more people to come and watch club games; we need to encourage girls to play football from an early age.

Judge me on how I play football, or judge me on when you meet me.

I want to… help the young guys, help my teammates, help everybody be confident and make everybody feel like they're special.

Coach Spurrier was just an amazing competitor. I felt I learned to really love the competition of it all from watching him and being around him. All his assistant coaches were great recruiters, very professional in how they handled their business. So as a young guy, I got to see that all the time.

As players, we need to try to inspire young girls to keep playing because, at grass roots, we need more girls playing football.

It's fun working with smart, young women.

We're doing a lot of work in schools getting girls to play football, breaking down any taboos there might be, and we're seeing them get interested and bring their families along, where they have such a good match day experience that they're coming back.

It's always in our mind-set to encourage young girls to get playing. The only way we can do that is being positive off the pitch, trying to engage as much as possible.

The image of women's football has definitely changed. Now we've got to make sure it keeps developing.

Female goalkeepers are seen as equals in academies now. We're trying to set a good example for the younger boys so they're used to seeing us women around, making great saves and scoring great goals.

I'm thankful for the experience and to be able to coach other young people on their journey through college football. It's a privilege.

Thierry is an Arsenal legend and I had an opportunity to spend time with him when he was a coach at the academy.

For the women's team, our job is to be professional footballers for club and country and be the best role models we can be.

I play football in training all the time with my male friends, who are also professionals. But playing together in competition? I just don't see it. We have the ability, we have the technique, we have the tactical understanding, but there are physical limitations. You can't get away from that.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.