Female Athlete Quotes

• There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports

  Rebecca Lobo

  Sports, Athlete, Play

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• Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls.

  Richard Attias

  Girl, Hero, Athlete

  "Sport: Bridging the Gender Gap" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Champions keep playing until they get it right.

  Billie Jean King

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

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• Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

  Mia Hamm

  Girl, Sports, Volleyball

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• I have struggled to be taken seriously as a female athlete. I have struggled to find my worth outside of winning. I have struggled to accept parts of myself. Now I'm recognizing the beauty in those parts as well as beauty in the times when things didn't go my way.

  Lynsey Dyer

  Taken, Athlete, Winning

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• I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Sports, Volleyball, Athlete

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• What doesn't kill you makes you smaller

  Mario

  Funny, Humorous, Character

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• If 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger,' how do you explain zombies?

  Bob Saget

  Trust No One, Inspirational Tattoo, Zombie

  Twitter post from Mar 12, 2013

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• What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Hunger feeds the need to succeed.

  Steve Kaufman

  Trust No One, Inspirational Tattoo, Stronger

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• Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Moving Forward, Trust No One, Inspirational Tattoo

  "Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889.

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• What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.

  Esmeralda Santiago

  Trust No One, Inspirational Tattoo, Stronger

  Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.63, Da Capo Press

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• Remember the saying, What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger? It's true!

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiring, Happiness

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• When I was growing up, softball had stereotypes along with other female sports. But society is definitely changing since the WNBA and WUSA. Muscles on female athletes are OK now. Young
  girls can look up to beautiful, athletic, fit women.

  Jennie Finch

  Beautiful, Girl, Softball

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• Sure, there are times when the guys talk about playing football in school and I can't relate to that, but I can relate to being a female athlete. And as long as you are prepared, work hard and know your stuff, you will be fine.

  Megan Alexander

  Football, Athlete, School

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Female athletes are supposed to be toned down. You're always supposed to talk about the team and never stand out.

  Hope Solo

  Team, Athlete, Female

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• Saudi Arabia's first female athlete will be allowed to compete while wearing a head scarf. The Saudi woman said she was thrilled about the ruling all she needs now is a man to drive her to the Olympics.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Athlete, Men

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• Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.

  Katherine Dunn

  Athlete, Training, Female

  "Just as Fierce". www.motherjones.com. November/December 1994.

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• Female athletes are stereotyped by the general population--and usually as homosexuals.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Athlete, Population

  Billie Jean King, Frank Deford (1982). “Billie Jean”, Viking Pr

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• All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all its forms, but also for every variety of calisthenics, so that I still begrudge the trifling exertion needed to climb in and out of a bathtub, and hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Sports, Horse

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• The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we do here exceptionally well that separates us from other programs is we train them to compete. So a huge challenge in women's athletics is to get them to compete against their teammates and friends in practice with the same intensity they compete with their bitter rivals. So that's a huge challenge for me, to get the women in practice to go after each other the way you would a rival

  Anson Dorrance

  Volleyball, Athlete, Thinking

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