Beth Brooke Quotes

Women play just as hard as guys do. We're just as competitive.

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

Male, female, it doesn't matter. All I see when I look across the ring is an opponent.

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.

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.

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.

Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.

I always feel like one of the guys and very unintimidated.

If you need a tax credit to compete, you are probably not that competitive.

I have a great deal of respect for any women that will enter the world of little boys of sports.

I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sports. My situation - and I've always said this, even in politics - is may the best man win. I'm not team-bound.

We actually probably do nothing very special for women. But what we do in a very special manner is to remain an absolute gender-neutral, merit-based organization.

I'd recommend for any little girl starting out to play with the boys as long as possible.

I've never felt that being a woman was a competitive advantage or disadvantage.

For us, gender didn't come up. We were friends who happened to play together. We never said, 'Gee, we're an all-girl band!'

We're really greedy when it comes to titles. We want every championship - the women's title included.

Cricket is a sport girls can play and be successful in irrespective of their background.

I'd rather it to just be not so much men's wrestling and women's wrestling but that we're all on the same playing field.

I do not have a competitive advantage when fighting another woman.

My dream of society is a society where women are free and proud of their bodies.

The only thing I advocate for is for equality for female athletes because we train just as hard, and we're always having a lot of head-to-head clashes, always competing against each other.

I was very much a student of the sport. I wanted to know everything, all the moves. It was the coolest thing I had seen. I started winning matches. Dads didn't want their sons to face a girl. Coaches didn't want to put any of their wrestlers up against me to be beaten by a girl.

I rarely felt or noticed any real divide between girls and boys when I was growing up. Maybe it was because I was so involved in sports and competed with the boys. Maybe it was my mom and dad, who constantly instilled confidence in me and never made me feel as though there were boy activities and girl activities.