Good Quote by Wilma Rudolph

When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.

— Karen DeCrow

You look at the sports pages and you'd often be forgiven for thinking women didn't do sport.

— Jo Swinson

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay…

— Billie Jean King

“How did all that revolutionary talk of the seventies land us in a place where being female means playing dumb and looking good?”

— Claire Messud

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

When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my…

— Dorothy Hamill

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.

— Martina Navratilova

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

Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon line and…

— Kenny Chesney

I'm a big proponent of women's athletics, and I think they have come so far in this country. It's given opportunities to young girls…

— Tommy Tuberville

Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.

— Chris Van Allsburg

There's a real intense thing about manners in the South, a real prescribed way to be a woman.

— Mary Wiseman