Female Sports Quotes

I want soccer to be a stable profession that attracts young female athletes when they graduate from college.

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.

I think women should inspire. It is our duty to inspire young girls to play a sport, whether it's just for enjoyment and keeping fit or to actually go on and try and make a career out of it.

Femininity and sport can go together.

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.

I feel like when there's so much conversation about women's athletics right now, we need to focus on their performance and their skill.

In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.

Playing for England, it's a massive honour to wear the shirt anyway, but to come and play at Wembley Stadium, in terms of how women's football has developed, it's a massive opportunity.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

You know, I think more people should watch women's basketball. It'd do so much for the game.

Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader.

Ronda is an amazing athlete and has done so much for this sport, especially for the women.

For me looking at the success of some of the women's football World Cups, the crowds they've drawn, the spectacle it has created and the event that it's been I think it's really great cricket is having a go at that as well.

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

I literally couldn't get anyone to hire me. Having a woman do sports was seen as too risky.

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

I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now.

I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.

I think a lot of people thought women's soccer had arrived and it was here to stay and it was going to be huge, but that wasn't realistic. It has progressed slowly.

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

Serena Williams is the greatest tennis player of all time, the greatest female athlete of all time, the greatest athlete of all time.

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.

I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.

I used to do kickboxing, because I liked the cute outfits.

In U.S., there are lot of good fighters, female fighters. Lots of different sparring partners. So it's good.