Alex Scott Quotes

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

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

Everybody is really committed to making the women's game as good as it can be.

Of course, I'm all for women getting to play prominent parts.

All of us follow men's cricket because we want at some point that women's cricket would be up there.

The women's game has come on leaps and bounds.

I'm really encouraged by the progress I've seen with what they're doing with the women in WWE, but I feel like there's a lot more than can be done.

I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.

Women today have the keys to the doors which have been barred against them and they will open them without asking consent.

I think a lot of us women feel like we deserve to play on the big courts in front of a big crowd as well.

I think a lot of sporting organisations are really sitting up and taking notice, putting in some great programs and investing a lot into women's sports.

To go from hit-and-miss promotions barely taking women's fighting seriously to women headlining on a regular basis, high-level fights, it's an amazing thing to see. And it happened in what I felt was a pretty quick succession - though not fast enough - as far as professional sports go. It's really exciting.

What is best to hope for and what everyone is working towards is to elevate the quality of women's sport and to bring it to a level where it is seen as something that is very entertaining, something to be admired, to be looked up to, to put it in that level playing field as a product to be sold equal to the men.

I don't think the entire world respects women in sport. But if FIFA start respecting the women's game more, others will follow.

I love women's tennis, and I want it to do well. But I don't want to pander. I don't have to be warm and fuzzy. I just want to be respected.

Women's sport is growing, becoming powerful, and we want to continue to raise that platform for the young girls at home.

It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think we should have. But I think we should slowly build it in and not just go 'Bam!' with three weeks over the same course and same length of time as the men's.

The image of women's football has definitely changed. Now we've got to make sure it keeps developing.

There weren't any opportunities to be a professional women's player until I was 16 and the WSL was formed.

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

I've said it before that I am not and haven't been throughout my career a huge supporter of women's wrestling, and I haven't paid that much attention to it.

Just having the support from the male players is important as the women's game moves forward.

I think for people that have supported the women's game for a long time, I think they understand the struggles that we have continually faced and that we've continually fought back against.

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

Women leading big corporations or assuming various important social and political roles is still considered newsworthy, which clearly shows the need to further support and enhance the role of women in society.