QUOTES




On Sex and Sport:

``A small part of me feels guilty, but the rest of me feels it's a good way to promote women's hockey and the muscularity of the sport. It seems we have to take off our clothes to get more recognition. The sport has been hampered by people saying all women who play it are butch, and big and bulky. I wanted to promote myself as a female who can look good. At times you do want to be seen as attractive rather than a sweaty, grimy athlete.''
-Rechelle Hawkes after agreeing to a nude shoot for Black and White Magazine, The Weekend Australian, 18 March 2000

"When we take our clothes off we get more exposure than for actually playing the game."
-Shelly Andrews, The Canberra Times, 27 May 2000

"I knew that they were going to do the shoot, but it is up to them what they get up to."
-Ric Charlesworth after Louise Dobson, Juliet Haslam, Bianca Langham and Kristen Towers posed in their underwear in a series of photos for men's magazine FHM.

"Make me sound interesting and desirable, will you? Oh, and sexy"
-Claire Mitchell-Taverner during an interview for a newspaper.


Ric Charlesworth on the Hockeyroos:

"I think we can be much better."
-After the Hockeyroos won Gold in Atlanta 1996

"The first game I coached was against Korea in 1993 and we were 3-0 down and finished 3-3," he said. "Ever since that first game I've had the greatest respect for them."
-27th July 1996

"These girls are very, very good athletes. Four of them are quicker than Nova."
-June, 1999


Sydney Olympics:

"If you get a chance try and send us some 'Herofaxes' through telstra.com, letters and words of support to all the girls - we love sticking them on our walls in the Olympic Village - it makes us feel like real people! (laugh) And the swimmers always get far too many anyway (lol)!"
-Lisa Carruthers, 26th July 2000

"There's also nine girls who didn't make this team. This is dedicated to them as well."
-Alyson Annan, after the win in Sydney.

"You're a legend Hawksey!"
-Juliet Haslam on Rechelle Hawkes after the Hockeyroos win in Sydney.

"I don't think people appreciate what we go through, "It is hell!" So this just makes it all the more special because we really are in a concentration camp,"
-Rechelle Hawkes, to the collective laughter but overwhelming agreement of her team-mates, after their win in Sydney.

"The girls who were there were so happy. We didn't know and we thought, why is Ree doing her hair, because we worked out later that she had taken longer than usual to blow dry her hair. "
-Alison Peek on Rechelle Hawkes being chosen to read the Athletes oath at the Sydney Olympics.

"We went straight to the food hall then, to check out the eating facilities. We found out that the lamingtons have the least amount of fat out of the junk food, only 2%!"
-Nikki Hudson on the 'eating facilities".


On life after Hockey:

"Maybe I'll just catch up on all the lost sleep, go for a holiday in Europe and marry somebody very, very rich."
-Rechelle Hawkes on life after Hockey

"I think we're looking forward to the other side of hockey now. Being able to celebrate pretty hard for who knows how long. No more sand hills, no more skin folds, we can eat the donuts in the village, we can eat McDonalds. We can do whatever we want now."
-Jenny Morris after the win in Sydney.

KP - "It won't be till you think back ..."
LC - "It might not be till 10, 20 years."
KP - "You'll ring me one day and go 'We won Olympic gold. That was pretty good, wasn't it?"'
LC - "That wasn't too bad, was it?"
KP - "We did all right, didn't we?"
-Hockeyroo sisters Lisa Curruthers (nee Powell) and Katrina Powell

"They (olympic medals) can stay there till I have kids to show - and when I do, I want my kids to know that not only I won one, but their aunt did, too."
-Katrina Powell


The Hockeyroos on their stay at a mountain retreat prior to the Olympics:

"It was fantastic. Just to lay around and have an afternoon snooze and order room service."
-Alyson Annan on the Hockeyroos stay at a Blue Mountains retreat prior to the Olympics.

"Yep, that's definately a priority. Apparently where we are staying they have plenty of things on offer, like massages, a beauty salon, spa and even a hairdresser. No doubt they will be pretty busy while we're there."
-Rechelle Hawkes on whether pampering was on the table at the Blue Mountains retreat.

"Yeh, we can even choose our own food, so we may let loose, but not too much,"
-Hawkes again.

"The first thing we did was go to the hair and beautician salon to check it out. I think everyone wanted to make appointments to get ourselves ready for the opening ceremony, so we wanted to get in early."
-Nikki Hudson


Jenny Morris on Ric Charlesworth:

"He is the best hockey coach going around, as he has a great analytical mind, he's very inspiring, and incredibly smart. I can say this because I am in the Australian team, and I don't have to suck up to him."
-Jenny Morris

"He is a strong sort of guy and doesn't tolerate egos. Then again, with women you probably have less of a problem with that than with men.
-Jenny Morris

"Sure, he is someone who can be quite intimidating and he can make a few people teary. I've had my fights with him. He wins sometimes. I win sometimes. But you don't win too many."
-Jenny Morris


Miscellaneous:

"I haven't scored many goals, so it has to be one of the best," she said.
-Rechelle Hawkes Atlanta 1996 after beating Spain 4-0

"Laughs... We usually are kept very busy and don't have a lot of spare time.... But if there is a chance to have a drink while on tour everyone will put their hands up."
-Louise Dobson asked whether the Hockeyroos get up to any trouble when they are touring. August 2, 2000

"But we had to take our punishment and realize we're not invincible. When we got home, all we heard from people was, `Oh my god, what happened?' We have come out of that a lot tougher because we know the teams that can beat us."
-Alison Peek after the Hockeyroos failed to take the Champions Trophy in 2000

"We went to the Adrenalin Sports Bar and they looked after us with free drinks. The Dutch and German girls were there too, so we all really let our hair down. I had the headache from hell the next morning but after five months of hard training it was worth it."
-Nikki Mott after the Hockeyroos Champions Trophy win in Brisbane in 1999.

"We have video when we were young - Lisa does a cartwheel, so I do a cartwheel; Lisa does a somersault, so I'm doing a somersault,"
-Katrina Powell.

"We call ourselves the secret weapons,"
-Juliet Haslam.




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