Quotes About Equality

It's all very well to talk about how it would be great to have a woman driver, a woman with sponsors and marketing, that's all great but to get into that drive you have to perform. That's what I realized early on when I got into Formula One.

We have to do more than tell women they need sponsors. We have to identify high-potential women by name and strategically map them to those who can help them get to the next level.

It's difficult because the men's game is so big and attracts so much money and sponsorship, and so it's always going to take priority.

I think we all, as drivers, come to the table with a package. It's either your speed and raw talent, your sponsorship money, your nationality. For me, one of my unique selling points is my gender, without a doubt.

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I had to fight for everything I've achieved in my life - which is true about all of us. And I truly believe that we are all created equal. It's about the paths we choose.

Just because someone doesn't have a silver spoon in their mouth doesn't mean they can't be highly intelligent.

I think number one is what my mom and dad preached to me when I was a little kid: Just because you may have athletic ability and you may be able to play a sport doesn't make you any more special than anybody else. Doesn't mean God loves you more than anybody else.

The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

Racism still exists in the sport of boxing.

But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

Football is the biggest sport in Norway for girls and has been for years, but at the same time, girls don't have the same opportunities as the boys.

Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.

I want to be a great role model to let the kids, especially black kids, that it's possible to make it in this sport. I think we, as a black community, quit playing the game because we think it's a white man's sport. Or we think that since other black people don't play it, so why should I play it.

Music is not a sport - one is not better than the other. You just like what you like and get inspired.

Women's sport is genuine, it's pure and it's raw... we don't do it for the money.

I think the impact I make is to inspire Filipino female athletes that they can do it as well... A Filipina can be a sports hero.

I wanted to use sports for social change.

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

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?'

We still have a long way to go. Because the reality is that I'm 52-years-old. And how many 55 to 60-year-old women do you see in sports broadcasting? How many? I see a lot of 60-year-old men broadcasting. The physical appearance and natural aging of all the men doing this job don't matter.

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

I was a bouncer, if you can believe it for a while in a sports bar. I let everybody in.