Nancy Dubuc Quotes

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

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

Here I am just trying to fund myself to play a sport, but the greater picture is that I'm a female athlete really pushing the envelope for women in sports.

We like to be kind of at the forefront for how all football federations should treat their female athletes.

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.

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 growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my role models. I never dreamt that I could be at that level. I remember thinking they seemed so elegant and regal and powerful and feminine.

I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.

I've had some very strong female role models, so I think that's an important thing.

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

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 never really thought about the fact that there weren't female role models, because I had them in my life. The women I knew in my life were so strong.

I'd love to have a chance to fight in the World Series Boxing for women, but nothing has been done about that.

The girls are working so hard to put female wrestling on the map and to make it as big as the men. To see it actually happening... I'm so grateful.

It's really important for cycling and for women to be on a sporting stage which is in the mainstream and across the board, not just my own sport.

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.

Women's MMA has come a really long way. People look forward to us fighting, and they get excited.

As a former college athlete, I know the importance of sports in the lives of women and girls, and I couldn't be more thrilled to join forces with NWSL and U.S. Soccer to ensure professional women athletes are elevated as the entire country can watch and be inspired by their strength and athleticism.

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

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

Women are stepping up, they are performing, they are showing that we are athletes as well and we deserve the attention we are getting.

For the average person walking down the street, they don't even know a women's soccer league exists in this country.

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

More girls are taking up sport and realising it's a legitimate option for them to forge a career.

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.