"My interest and passion is to continue to break new ground in motorsports. I’ve been proactive over the last year in thinking about what I want to do in my career and how I can accomplish those things."

"The Indy 500 made me realize that life and racing careers are too short not to go for it"

"Believe in themselves, have fun, and don’t be afraid to do what they want to do."

"I will never forget my origin and the friends who still live there"

"It’s vital to have that mix of youth and experience."

"I’m a fan of working for [equality] and lots of teams are putting the effort in and playing good football … If we keep doing that we’ll get people in the stadiums and then we can fight for better conditions off the field."

"I don’t have a problem with people talking to me and then asking for a picture. I don’t like it if they just take a picture. Then I feel like an animal in the zoo."

"We will consistently fight to be at the top and live in that pressure because that's where we're at our best."

"I went through school with people thinking negatively of me for playing football with the boys. I wasn’t scared to be different."

"It’s important for young girls to see the sport succeeding. They can actually say, ‘I’m gonna be a pro-footballer.’"

"That's why the fans are vital to us. That's why it's important after the games to embrace them and to get that connection because we need them in every game."

"Just seeing smiles on people's faces and cheering, whether it be a tackle, a goal, the end or the start of the game. As a player, what more could you wish for?"

"The memory gives you motivation and that little bit of fire inside when you need it."

"You can’t be predictable, having the freedom to recognise and assess different options rather than being robots and sticking to strict plans is super important in our development."

"We are not robots. We need time to recover, to perform for the fans."

"I expect standards from the group, I see myself as the driver, because I am so competitive, you have to keep pushing to be better year in, year out."

"Spending time with loved ones. Time is such a precious thing."

"But it's true, being a woman in this life is hard."

"'Love is love' - I say it all the time and people are starting to get a bit annoyed I think. It's very transferable to a lot of situations."

"Even if someone else might not have liked the way I looked, to me I was fit, I was healthy, and I looked a way that I was happy with because I knew what I was doing made me happy."

"When I look back now, when I look at the insecurities of girls that weren’t active, I never had those worries, I never had the worry of getting changed in the changing room and not liking my body, because I knew I was strong and powerful."

"Being so heavily involved in sport was the best thing that ever could have happened to me going through school."

"We know how well sport has served us…the health benefits, the self-confidence…we want to make sure that’s accessible and provided as an opportunity to these younger people because it’s slowly, slowly being put backwards on the priority list."

"Nothing makes me feel the way football or music do. But you choose which song you want to put on… football is out of your control."

"The split second that they say something can affect you forever. So you’re basically making a choice: do I want to live and just be happy in my bubble and be who I am, safely? Or do I want to stand up and be open about it, but then have to be strong enough to repel all of that negativity?"

"I don’t want to use the word oppression, because it’s really, really harsh. But we’ve been banned, we’ve been constantly told ‘you can’t do this, you can’t do that’. But the one thing that we can be is whoever we want – whether you are gay, or you aren’t."

"I didn’t want to be them, and I didn’t want to do what they did. But they still inspired me to be me. And I think that’s the point: that little girl doesn’t have to want to be a footballer, she just has to grow up knowing that she can do what she wants."

"I like it because when you think back to key moments, you always remember the music that was playing."

"I’m still waiting to find that thing that really sparks something in me."

"In the book, I speak about, find what you love, then do it, and do it till you’ve got nothing left to give it. If I’m telling people to follow their passions and to be the best versions of themselves, how could I give my life to something that wasn’t along those guidelines?"

"So once you come into our game, there’s no way we would alienate anybody. I don’t think you would say anything in a woman’s changing room that would shock anybody because it’s so open. It’s, be who you are, celebrate who you are, because this is a safe space for you."

"I can only speak on this as a woman, because that’s my group, but every single woman who has got herself to the point of playing, especially professionally, has had to face misogyny."

"I was never interested in politics at school, but the more you see the injustice in the world, how can you not have an interest in what’s going on if you care about the community you live in?"

"When you see somebody that looks like you, you think it’s achievable. If you can’t see it, you can’t be it. So that starts with us being women at the top, but obviously then it’s about being a diverse group of women."

"I’ve always been very opinionated. But I was dismissed as being angry."

"The boys were embarrassed. There was pressure because they’d been taught that they shouldn’t be beaten by a girl."

"Kids are never the problem; it’s nearly always the parents."

"If you want to become a woman footballer you don’t have to be a rebel these days. You can just follow your feet."

"When I was younger, I felt I had to be a rebel to pursue what I wanted to."

"I was brought up never to expect people to say no to me, because if I said I wanted to do something, then I was pushed forward and given as many resources as possible to do it by my family."

"I’m still growing, and that pressure is difficult sometimes, but that’s why you need to find physical and mental balance. I try to see everything that has happened to me as a good thing and try to have fun, because playing football is my passion."

"I believe my strengths are my humility and joyfulness."

"It’s not about fulfilling other people’s expectations; I need to think about me and about what I want to achieve."

"You've just got to be happy. Life can be very short."

"It's a tough process. It is emotionally and physically draining, and I get all aspects for people, but for me, you can't help who you fall in love with and if you are happy at the end of the day."

"Sometimes, don't believe everything you read."

"In terms of diversity in the game, I want to be there front and centre and helping with that."