Female Football Quotes

When I was a kid, the women like Mia Hamm and Brandi Chastain were paving the way for female players in the States. Things like that are important so girls realise there is a future for them if they want to play. It is something they can aspire to, to be not just a hobby.

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.

In women's football, you can't plan to go out and win everything in one season. It's not like that.

When I started, when I was eight, I never thought I would make a career out of being a woman footballer.

Marta is one of my favourite players, and one of the best players I've had the privilege of coming up against, so I say this with the greatest respect: there are other players who were in a much stronger position to be named the best female player of 2018.

Just normalising the idea of women playing football is a massive part of what we need to do.

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

Football in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport, even with a lot of people accepting the female sport.

Football is the biggest sport in Norway for girls and has been for years, but at the same time, girls don't have the same opportunities as the boys.

It will be important because every country is looking forward to getting more girls to play the sport. And if you have another World Cup of, say, Under-19 or Under-21, it gives an opportunity for young girls to compete at that level because there's something to look forward to.