Girl Sports Quotes

#1. I made a decision that year, to start mattering in a way that had nothing to do with sports teams or plastic crowns, and the reality is, I might have made that decision without her, or if I'd never fallen in love with a girl who considered love to be the biggest disaster of all.

Robyn Schneider

#2. GrayG: I feel like I can tell you anything.
IvyMac: You can. That's what friends do.
GrayG: I've never been friends with a girl before.
IvyMac: I'm honored to be your first.

Kristen Callihan

#3. I encourage girls to play sports and play hard.

Lisa Leslie

#4. At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong.

Evgeni Plushenko

#5. I wasn't good at sports and I needed a way to make girls like me.

John Rzeznik

#6. Sure, equal pay, maternity leaves, and pro sports are important. But a girl can't make a free throw from the foul line if her head's not in the game.

Emma McLaughlin

#7. LAURA ATCHISON, Author of "What Would A Wise Woman Do?", on DANGEROUS ODDS by Marisa Lankester:
"Truth is always wilder than fiction.
Hold on to your hats and enjoy this page turning look inside the world of sports betting from a good girl gone bad for love.

Laura Atchison

#8. Why was it considered normal for a girl to live for fashion and makeup, but not car engines or bugs? And what about sports fanatics? My mom had a boyfriend who would flip out if he missed even a minute of a football game. Wouldn't that be what doctors considered autistic behavior?

Tara Kelly

#9. This girl owns me, whether she realizes it or not. I'm a slave to her will.

Collette West

#10. Truth is always wilder than fiction. Hold on to your hats and enjoy this page turning
look inside the world of sports betting from a good girl gone bad for love.
Laura Atchison, Author of What Would A Wise Woman Do?

Laura Atchison

#11. I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I think that's true for a lot of women-sports gives you a part of your life where you can work at something and you look in the mirror and you like that person.

Teri McKeever

#12. I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying.

Josh Hutcherson

#13. It is so important for young girls to be fit. I think sports is the key to success, because the challenges you face in sports prepare you for the rest of your life.

Gail Devers

#14. Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls.

Vera Caslavska

#15. If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.

Dan Castellaneta

#16. I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life.

Anna Kournikova

#17. Girls gave sex to get love and boys gave love to get sex and conning girls was the favorite indoor sport.

Merle Shain

#18. I was all limbs and I was very convinced that I must be uncoordinated, so I didn't want to try any sports. And the girls' basketball team was constantly like, "Please, please just come play."

Geena Davis

#19. The best date would have to be at a sporting event - it will show the guy what type of girl she is.

Kendra Wilkinson

#20. I take my role as an ambassador for the sport, and as a role model for boys, girls, mommies, daddies - whoever it is - very, very seriously. I know the impact my role models have had in my life, and I'm in a really beautiful position to be able to be that for others.

Kerri Walsh

#21. There will always be someone with a cuter girl, a bigger car, a bigger home, but that does not matter. You measure your own performance by your own potential. That's what makes a successful person.

Harvey MacKay

#22. I went to dance class as a girl because I didn't like sports, but I never did a dance recital in my life. Never, ever, ever. I felt comfortable dancing, and I was happiest dancing, but I was never the best person in the class.

Jennifer Grey

#23. I am not a sports girl.

Dianna Agron

#24. 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

#25. I think girls hate each other, no doesn't always mean no, you have to lie to stay married, women's sports are boring and the Olympics are gay.

Bill Maher

#26. I'm kind of the model that everyone thought would always be the Guess, 'Sports Illustrated' girl. Then, when I started to do high fashion stuff ... people were like, 'Oh, so we can have a girl with, like, thighs and a butt in a Tom Ford campaign. Cool.'

Gigi Hadid

#27. I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.

Kaley Cuoco

#28. Little boys are still playing the game [baseball], more little girls are playing, and it is still the world's most interesting game, a duel, a chess match, a foot race, a gymnastics exhibition, that rare opportunity for individuals to be recognized within a group effort.

Robert Lipsyte

#29. The sad thing is that I know no athletes' names. I am not a sports girl at all.

Clara Mamet

#30. Sports provide girls with the opportunity to develop a better relationship with their bodies. They can be aggressive on the court, be strong and still be feminine.

Gabrielle Reece

#31. 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.

George Vecsey

#32. He was a professional athlete and coach, a Ferrari who lived his life in the fast lane. She was a girl-next-door kind of girl, closer to a golf cart than a sports car.

Emily March

#33. Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#34. I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

Samantha Shannon

#35. I really hope that what we are doing inspires young Mexican girls not to be afraid to get involved in sports.

Lorena Ochoa

#36. Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.

Serena Williams

#37. Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

Marta

#38. The only things that interested me were sports, girls, adventures, celebrities - in short, life.

Porfirio Rubirosa

#39. It's so much fun! Girls just think that it is all about popularity, but it's not. You have to work really hard if you want to be good at cheerleading. It's just like any other sport!

Stephanie

#40. Isaiah opens the door to the bathroom, and steam pours out. He sports a pair of jeans and no shirt.
"Wear some clothes around my girl."
Isaiah digs through his duffel bag. "Why? She already knows I'm the better-looking one. Echo chose you because you've got that smooth mouth."

Katie McGarry

#41. When a man wants to know who lives in the apartment opposite, it's always a pretty girl," I said. "When a pretty girl wants to know, it's generally a man with field glasses. One of the most popular of New York sports.

Joel Townsley Rogers

#42. I've never been jealous of another teammate. Sure, some guys are faster than I am, stronger than I am, but none of them have ever tried to steal the girl I love away from me.

Collette West

#43. Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.

Anne Bancroft

#44. People tend to box little girls in. They teach them to sit properly and stand quietly and not attract attention. Sports is one place where girls can be free and enjoy the exhilaration of movement.

Tenley Albright

#45. We've gotten so much as a result of the changes. Part of our responsibility is to give something back to the game and the girls who are just starting to play.

Carla Overbeck

#46. I'm very down-to-earth and approachable, and I can be one of the guys and watch sports ... I like to cook - I'm like the girl next door.

Marisa Miller

#47. I think women's soccer is so important. Soccer is the biggest sport for little girls. It's so important for us to give these girls a dream and something they can aspire to be.

Lauren Holiday

#48. Most men bought a flashy sports car, had an affair or hooked up with a girl barely out of school in their midlife crisis. Apparently he did bizarre things like fall in love and throw away a multimillion-dollar deal.

Maya Banks

#49. I admired those girls who did Playboy, Sports Illustrated, and Victoria's Secret. I love looking at them too, but I never went in that direction. I just stayed in fashion.

Linda Evangelista

#50. screw that gender essentialism bullshit, men have as much of a right to care about clothes as women. Girls can like sports and cars and guns. So why does it even matter if you identify as a girl, a boy or as neither?

I. W. Gregorio

#51. As the only girl growing up among three brothers, I was always afraid of being excluded. If there was a game to be played, a sport to be learned, a competition to join, I was on my feet and ready. I didn't spend much time alone for fear that I'd miss out.

Elisabeth Shue

#52. When I was a kid I used to hate getting picked for team sports. It would be the fit and sporty guys over there. And me and the fat kids over here. Those kids were fat! One girl had to be cut out a hula hoop.

Alan Carr

#53. I was not one of the popular kids, I was not great at sports, girls didn't pay attention to me.I was just pretty much an average kid, no stand-out abilities, nothing note-worthy.

Jeff Dunham