Sasha Banks Quotes

Gender equality cannot be achieved by cutting programs that allow girls to get the same chance to compete, learn, and play. The United States has had a solid history of commitment to its female athletes and expanding opportunity for women, and it is imperative that we continue on this path.

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.

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

There has been a positive change with people being aware about women's cricket of late. It's still far from what it needs to be, but women are slowly getting the right recognition for this game.

I think that the significance of the WNBA is that it has given women a different platform and a different level of respect as professionals, both as players and also in our coaching.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.

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.

Women today are respected as athletes now and that's a really cool thing to see.

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.

In the age of millennials, women's rights, and female empowerment, I hope my voice helps to encourage the next generation of great female athletes and golfers to possibly stop social injustices and prejudices from creeping into the game that I fell in love with at such a young age.

It feels like a whole other brand onto itself, and I know for the girls - and just speaking for myself - being at NXT has been such an amazing experienc, and I feel so accomplished here as wrestling as a woman and just showing fans that women can do it better than the men.

I tip my hat to the long list of girls that have really taken wrestling up a notch.

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

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

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.

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.

First-ever woman to have an iron-man match. It's been such a long time, to be the second woman ever to main event a Raw.