Phil Neville Quotes

To people who don't take women's cricket seriously, I'd say: just watch a game first, and then make your judgement.

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.

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 am following the IPL. I think it would be great for the women's game, creating more competition and showcasing the world's best players from different countries. It would also be a stepping-stone to women's cricket becoming professional.

You know, I think more people should watch women's basketball. It'd do so much for the game.

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

But the reason that women's football is still unknown is because it's not on television and not widely publicised for a wide majority of the leagues in the world.

When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.

Norway has a great history of women's football, but it's harder now. We've stopped talking about development, and other countries have overtaken us.

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 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.

It's a dream that we, as women footballers, get to play in the same stadium as the men.

Women's MMA has come a really long way. People look forward to us fighting, and they get excited.

At Arsenal, we train for about two hours a day and are treated just the same as the men. It makes a big difference, and it gives young girls something to aim for.

Here I am just trying to fund myself to play a sport, but the greater picture is that I'm a female athlete really pushing the envelope for women in sports.

I think we have a big responsibility as the U.S. women's national team for women's football globally. I think everyone kind of looks up to us, whether they say they do or not. I think there is this awe and curiosity about what we've done in order to become as successful as we have.

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.

When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships - they watch games because their husbands watch. They're interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it's a way to spend time with family.

I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic.

Clearly, those of us women who play football wish that there was more coverage.

I love football, football is my life.

In a way, by being fully committed to the Olympic movement globally, I'm better able to promote women's hockey and talk about women's hockey and put a face to women's hockey, to all the IOC members.