Venus Williams Quotes

In recent generations, women's sports have been a blessing. Some of us can remember the bad old days in the '50s, when we would discover in casual schoolyard play that a girl could outrun most of us or hold her own in basketball or hit a softball - but there were no teams, no coaches, for girls.

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'm enormously proud that I can do a deal with the National Women's Soccer League to showcase the power and passion of women athletes as positive role models, not only for my daughter but also for my son.

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.

They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today.

Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.

Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.

The reality is, like, women's basketball players are playing against women. And we're all in the same boat the same way men's sports is.

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.

It is a time for women's tennis to return to the light, as it were, and be on a par with men's tennis, which is at a very high level.

In my mind, women's basketball players are an untapped resource.

We like to be kind of at the forefront for how all football federations should treat their female athletes.

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

We want more opportunities for women's players throughout the world.

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.

In my opinion, Jackie is the greatest female athlete ever.

Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.

It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

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

I'm a huge fan of wrestling, and I would like to see the position of women in the sport continue to improve, so if I can be a part of it, great.

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.

Where is women's sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of.

Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.

I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.