Fran Kirby Quotes

I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.

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.

There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.

The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on.

With a growing number of one-parent families in the country, the Girl Scout troop can be an indispensable and powerful positive factor.

I think sport can play a really positive role in young girls' lives and be great to see as many of them playing sport as possible.

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.

Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.

I'd recommend for any little girl starting out to play with the boys as long as possible.

To be able to make other girls play - and hopefully in Latin America as well - is very important to me.

I'm very privileged to be a professional footballer, and I want to encourage more young girls to play.

You've got a bunch of kids out here that might not want to be athletes, but they want to learn how to make a difference in their community, and I'm trying to as best I can show an example of that.

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

The more people feel comfortable to showcase that and the more we highlight that as a visibility for young girls to see and look up to - I think that's better.

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.

If one little girl who looks like me picks up a winter sport because she sees me, that's all anybody could ever ask for.

Everyone should be allowed to participate in sport, because it helps you to become more confident. That is important for women in India, because we are not always treated as equals.

I think it's really important for all young girls to see themselves represented in fashion so they don't feel alone in the world.

I don't have a problem participating with the youth because the youth are our future.

I think Together #WePlayStrong is a big step for football. This project is about building interest and professionalism and making younger women want to play football at a high level.

A lot of young girls look up to me and it's amazing.

Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.

I'm a strong believer in kid-empowerment.

Girls Incorporated of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey continues to advance their cause and to strengthen their community by aspiring to open a Girl's Center for Philadelphia.

I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.