Tobin Heath Quotes

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.

The women's national team is a very successful team, and that success has given us a platform to speak on gender equity issues. Millions of young women play soccer in this country, and it's empowering for them to see that our contribution to the game is valued.

I think it's important that we try to showcase what we're about as women footballers.

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

I've proved I'm in love with the women's game, and I think the quality is unbelievable.

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

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.

There are so many women out there relying on me to represent them.

I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization.

I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.

There's a growing recognition that women work in a different way to men. People like Bono and the Pope have worldwide audiences. We're mostly shouting at 100 people in a hall. But it's still important.

Women's voices need to be in politics, and shaping politics from the very beginning, not serve as an afterthought.

Maybe someday we'll have a woman president. Not me, though.

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

To change Washington, you need to change the women's player list.

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.

Clubs in other countries can step up, and we can kick on with women's football even more.

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.

Ultimately, we need to grow the women's game. That's the biggest issue; it always has been. Then you can talk about equal pay and everything else.

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 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.

With the success of the TNA Knockouts, that's when they started having their girls wrestle a lot more in WWE. I thought, 'This is a perfect time for me to come in. They care about women's wrestling.' Sadly it was just not the case.