"I was one of the most experienced players in our league and with the role I had in the changing room, I wanted to be able to change things, to be able to help develop women’s football."

"I also think we can help each other between countries. We don’t necessarily have the same problems, but then maybe we can help countries where it’s more difficult to talk. And that’s what’s important to me: that we’re all together and, ultimately, we have the same objective."

"It’s important for us to be able to give our opinion and that it comes from the field of play, directly from women’s players."

"Everything is going well on the field side, yes. This is also the message I want to get across: football must continue, we must not prevent ourselves from living because of malicious or unhealthy people."

"Sexist comments, every player has heard them at some point in their career."

"Despondency then gave way to anger, and today they are in the process of taking a stand. They want to be respected, no longer feel in danger, and make their contribution to building a healthier women's football."

"I've seen several cry in the locker room and I understand them. As a professional footballer and as a woman in general, we shouldn't feel that our life is in danger."

"The community response has been unbelievable to say the least. I am so humbled by the generosity of the communities we live in. Thank you for believing in our cause and contributing in so many different ways"

"To me, attending your grad, prom, is a rite of passage basically. It’s your reward for finishing high school and it’s an important milestone they all need to experience."

"I wanted to give people the opportunity to attend [prom] without feeling inferior towards anyone else because they couldn’t afford an outfit,"

"She oversees all aspects of the program with her main focus on recruiting. We have had several No. 1 recruiting classes because of her. I am fortunate to have her loyalty to our Bruin family and am thrilled to name her associate head coach: Kelly Inouye-Perez,Shelly Carlin UCLA Head Softball Coach"

"Lisa Fernandez is an icon in our sport, and she's been a big part of continuing the tradition of excellence of UCLA softball as both a student-athlete and coach"

"Having the support of the athletics department to continue to be. Part of the tradition and legacy of UCLA means a lot to me. UCLA is a special place, and I'm looking forward to the future."

"Being elevated to associate head coach further solidifies my presence in the program,"

"I think it's just kind of cool that now I can look back and say 'wow, I did that.' And it will be fun someday to show my kids and say, 'hey look what I did."

"I never swing for the fences, because it's impossible if I think about it too much, All I think about when I'm at the plate is base hit and up the middle"

"I was only using my hands when I first started hitting, My hitting instructor noticed that I was doing that and said that this style of hitting would help me. So that is kind of what gave me all my power."

"That's what I told myself. And then they ran to me and it was the most beautiful moment in my career, I guess."

"This is my first medal after the second baby, so it is actually a long time, and it's what I told myself before the sixth throw - that I have to show my boys how to fight,"

"I am fighting always until the end, Nothing is lost until the finish of the competition. I knew that I would fight and I knew that I would throw more, that's what I knew."

"I am happy to have won the championship. Many people have improved, the last time I played here there were not many woman candidate masters, today we have about three kids with those titles and I was really impressed with the way they played."

"When it started there was not much - we didn't have women in the BDF (Botswana Defence Force) or football and everybody is now following."

"So this is just the beginning. I'm the beginning of women's boxing in the country."

"I thought I could do something with it." Three years down the line, Morake sees herself as the beginning of women's boxing in the country."

"My mother taught me to be hard working. She instilled that in me from my childhood days."

"Growing up and seeing my mother representing Nigeria as an athlete, I always wanted to be like her. Whenever I watched her races and how she ran so well, I knew I wanted to follow in her footsteps, and like her, my goal is to one day participate in the Olympics."

"Sometimes you look back in life despite what you have achieved and wished you did some things better, I wish I had listened to my coach to run 400hurdle and put more effort in 200m and 800m."

"Some of the athletes of this generation need to be ready to work harder and not to be telling their coaches that the work load is too much. They must realise that only hard work, determination and discipline can take them to the top of their careers."

"My parents bought me my first running shoe , My coach John Afuwape gave my first Spike shoe in 1980."

"There are things that matter in sports. You may train an athlete for months and you think that the athlete is good enough to win a medal but on the day it matters the athlete gets into an overwhelming stadium with 80,000 spectators shouting and the athlete freezes."

"if you keep on working at it, with all your mind and people say they see you everyday passing by to the stadium to train and one day when they see you on the pitch for an international tournament the people will remember how you always went for training every morning, passing through their area all the time, that’s it, you don’t have to give up."

"You should not worry about what is going on around you because whatever that’s going on is to distract you, but if you keep on focusing and you talk with the right people, when you talk to one person and that person wants to discourage you, you know that you don’t need such a person, but when you talk to another and he encourages you, you know that the person is your friend that wants you to progress."

"When the ovation is loudest, it’s not when people start saying what else do you want. Because sometimes it’s better to give the young ones a chance to come up, it’s not that some people don’t want to leave, it’s because Nigeria don’t appreciate their own."

"I am very passionate about the plight of the less-privileged and I wish that I could set up a foundation to cater for their needs."

"Motherhood is such an indescribable feeling; it’s the best thing in the world. I think all women should go through the experience to understand what I’m saying."

"For me, each race was like a hurdle that I must jump over."

"When you are a top athlete in the world, if you marry the person on the track with you, whenever you travel, both of you can go together since you do the same thing."

"My goal has always been to help our athletics a blend of the old and new by encouraging them."

"At that level, you don’t wait for anybody, it is your career and you have to work very hard to achieve your goals."

"When you look at the idea behind the race, it is meant to promote peace. And so any thing that will bring peace to this country must be supported."

"The responsibilities of impacting the right attitude and adequate training can only be achieved by professionals in the industry."

"Government is spending so much on football. Though I am not against that, but it’s advisable for it to shift a little and show more interest in other sports, such as track and field."

"I never believed that at 18, I would be playing at the senior World Cup, that I would make the team, that I would even be in the Super Falcons. I can’t explain the feeling."

"”I just want to use this great opportunity to say a very great thank you to the organisers and also for remembering the female goalkeeper this year,”"

"I qamt to be one of tge best goalkeepers ik tye world."

"The most difficult thing for me was the language. But the club used to check on me to see how I was doing."

"Back in the village, when I used to play with my older brothers [she is the youngest of six children] I used to play in goal, to avoid them injuring me on the field."

"And just staying focused and cooking my food. Those are the things I took with me."

"Editing yourself is extremely important, to make sure that you're reminding yourself constantly that less is more"

"To be a part of this cast was really amazing, because of the wealth of knowledge that was there, and the representation of different cultures was awesome"