"Of course, I bring up ANA (*a golf tournament where she lost) [because] I don't know how to play with pressure, I don't know how to control [myself] when I got really nervous. So after that actually I get a lot more confident after ANA because I feel like I'm good enough to win. So after that [I was] just getting more and more confident." - ariya Jutanugarn

"I keep reminding myself to play one point at a time, and that this is just another tennis match, but that's getting a little bit harder to do as the rounds get farther; I'm definitely outside of my comfort zone already. I keep telling myself, 'You belong here, you belong here. ... Play your game.'" -Shelby Rogers

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"There was something special taking place on the last day, and I believed in our team, and the fact they all believed in each other really played into the final outcome." -Mary Lou Mulfur

Mulfur (far right) with her National Championship team.

"I understand that a lot of people that don’t have anything can make it. And I never accepted the little I had. I knew that if I were the best in the world, my reality could change. I was always the person who didn’t conform to the idea of “halfway.” -Terezinha Guilhermina

“I think the Afghanistan women’s team shows the huge potential football has as a unifying force. I like to think that we have given a lot of women in our country fresh hope.” -Khalida Popal

"When I step onto the blocks, I never think, 'I want to win.' I think, 'I want to pour all of myself into this race because there are people who can't physically, mentally or emotionally, do that.' So it's my way of performing for them." -Elizabeth Marks

"I'm a fighter, always have been, and I'm going to fight this as best I can with everything I got." -Shirley Muldowney

"Juggling work and rugby has been part of my reality for so long that I've just accepted that it is that way. ... Going to the Games would make it all worth it." -Nathalie Marchino

“When I sought the job, I was obviously aware being a woman was of some significance, but it did not occur to me that getting the job would be received the way it has been received. It’s wonderful getting letters and emails from young women of color, or otherwise, who talk about how impressed and motivated they are about my having the job. And so it occurs to me, I certainly intended to be the best executive director in the history of the union, anyway. But now I better because the thought is if I’m not, then there’ll always be some silly person who says, well, she was a girl.” -Michele Roberts, NBPA Executive Director

"Basketball gives you a chance to play together and to succeed. I was surprised to see that they felt exactly like me. ... The biggest thing PeacePlayers could teach me is to see the other side." -Toot, 18 year-old Israeli on a peace players team with Palestinians.