Lynn Swann Quotes

It's just becoming more acceptable for girls to react violently.

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.

I miss being able to throw down with other elite-level women, to be considered among the best.

I feel that we really had some good, athletic women wrestling out there and they work just as hard as the guys and put on a heck of a show.

Especially with the ladies' game, I have proved we can compete with all these men.

Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it.

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

I prefer just a women's race. It's a totally different game mentally.

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

Women play just as hard as guys do. We're just as competitive.

I knew the Big Ten was one of the best conferences in the country. Every night you're up against pros. It's just so competitive. You can get beat by any team. That's really what I like about the Big Ten.

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.

I like seeing girls throw down.

I played soccer, recreationally, in college.

Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It's invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hair, spit and nails - a much more fearsome thing to watch than two dudes clobbering each other.

'Splendour' broke through to new territory for me. It exposed my commitment to writing for women: my desire to recognise that they can be as aggressive, violent, mercurial, and complex as men.

My role models were Kevin Phillips and David Beckham, and, for me, now girls can look up to female footballers and want to aspire to be them and try to follow in their footsteps and even be better than us.

I was very active in college. I wanted to play athletics, and then I looked at wrestling as being a viable option to do that.

Regardless if I made it or not, I really wanted women's MMA to be a real thing.

In BMX, you need an inner mongrel, something that's a point of difference in the female category.

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

I've beaten two of the best players in the world, and if that doesn't say that women can't play darts I don't know what can.

I think it's important that we try to showcase what we're about as women footballers.