Get Behind Team GB: Player Motivational Quotes

A page collecting the quotations that motivate and focus fourteen members of the Team GB squad, presented alongside their names. Fara Williams offers ‘What does not kill me, makes me stronger’ and Ifeoma Dieke pairs ‘It’s not how big you are, it’s how big you play’ with ‘It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish’. Casey Stoney chooses ‘Hard work beats ability when ability doesn’t work hard’, Karen Carney the terse ‘Graft before craft’, and Rachel Brown a version of ‘Do it or don’t do it, there is no try’. Anita Asante, Jill Scott, Sophie Bradley, Eniola Aluko, Claire Rafferty and Steph Houghton contribute their own, while Kim Little quotes Vince Lombardi and Alex Scott the American coach Anson Dorrance.