Caroline Buchanan Quotes

I didn't want to be good for a girl: I wanted to be as good, if not better than, all the guys.

I grew up as an athlete doing judo, so I didn't really have a conventional, feminine body type.

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

I wanted to be a boy when I was young because boys got to do all the good stuff. So I became very aggressive and very competitive at a young age.

There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.

I like to hang with the boys and I like to prove that I can be one of the boys, if not better.

I'd go at anyone. I took all of my brothers' bull. It made me who I am.

I used to play softball every summer back in Quitman. My two brothers demanded I be tough. There were certain girls they wouldn't let me invite over because they were too feminine and fragile.

I always wanted to do what my brothers were doing. I always wanted to play the games they played and play rough and wear pants and go outside.

I was the ultimate tomboy because my oldest brother used to always beat up on me and wrestle and make sure I was engaged in sports, because I was his excuse to be able to go hang out with his friends.

I think that what we do out on the field is oftentimes a little bit better than what men do. I don't think that we flop around as much. I think we're tough. I mean, I've got battle wounds on my legs from the turf and sliding. And we're gritty. And we're feisty. And I think that I would never back down from a guy.

Definitely, I got a reputation growing up playing on the guys' hockey teams. The guys knew how tough I was because I played with them. I got quite a good reputation for beating up boys going up through school.

I don't step back, that's football. It's about winning.

I was how I was in college because I had to be. I played angry. I played hard. I stepped on guys' chests, I hit a game-winner against UConn.

Anytime you play basketball and your backs are to the wall, you have to come out and play aggressive.

Playing with the boys made me a better footballer. It made me more competitive and made me want to win even more. You were playing against the boys and wanted to prove how good you were.

I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.

Being in construction my whole life - I was trained as an architect - I always had to work with guys. And I always did my homework and then challenged them to figure it out faster than me. They don't want to be shown up by a woman.

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

I am such a tomboy. I grew up fighting with boys, mainly - beating up boys, actually.

My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.