First time Quote by Jackie Joyner-Kersee

We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was…

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the…

— Donna de Varona

Everything about the Olympics was first class, and women were treated as athletes and equals.

— Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz

I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that…

— Wilma Rudolph

I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm who made me realize…

— Jennie Finch

Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of…

— Richard Attias

I wasn't the first woman to try to make it in the world of sport, right? There were so many that came before me.

— Doris Burke

The Olympics was something amazing for the U.K. in bringing people together and giving the population hope.

— Holly Branson

The Olympic dream was born in 2010 during the qualifications to Vancouver. And when I was watching those Olympics from the sidelines, I felt…

— Adelina Sotnikova

I was always really inspired by watching the older girls competing, just seeing other Olympians do great things, and I just really wanted to…

— Aly Raisman

I think women have brought a lot of life back to the sport-first, because a lot of people doubted women could actually do it…

— Stacy Dragila

The triumph can't be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it…

— Wilma Rudolph