A biography for Leah Williamsonhasn’t been written yet.
“Yeah, I think society has changed and women's sport has reaped the benefits from it. Women's sport pushes those social norms as well and it's this thing of 'we're here and we're not going anywhere.'”
“You know I want to be available to people and accessible, I want to engage but I don't know anybody who can do that all the time, all that sort of energy.”
“I feel that when I am calm I am strong and at my best.”
“Originally, when I started it, women's football wasn't as secure as it is now.”
“The main thing when I look back on my journey is I unknowingly walked into a man's world. My whole career since has been a series of battles.”
“I think there's always been a direct correlation between success in a tournament and then what happens to the league off the back of it.”
“I've always said fashion is less about what people think I should be wearing, and more about expressing myself and how I feel.”
“I was always considering what other sport I could do, to get myself to be in a position to be an Olympian, and then I settled on football.”
“We need to make it easier for girls from different backgrounds to access football.”
“I do what I want and I wear what I want to wear, and show confidence in those decisions. If somebody doesn't agree, that's okay because it makes me happy.”
“I'm so proud to be English.”
“When they, Fifa, Uefa, all the main people, do the scheduling, it should always be, 'Rest first.'”
“I don't know if I'd go as far to say spiritual person, but I do believe that there is a sort of plan and things are written out for us and we kind of choose between one or two paths. But most of it is kind of ready and we just have to be bold enough to do it.”
“For me to wear an England badge would have always been enough.”
“There's only a couple of times I cried for goals in my life. Thierry Henry's return at the Emirates, I was behind that goal, it was incredible. Things like that, they stick with you.”
“The most important thing is that girls get equal access because you are then giving them the opportunity to choose to play football. That's the biggest barrier - that was the biggest barrier for me. Accessibility is the first step and the funding gives us that but we can't just throw money at things and see what happens.”
“I never want to be that player that lets the team down.”
“I was so stressed about becoming the person I wanted to be at the end of my journey, and maybe didn't enjoy the road so much.”
“My family are very sporty people and then when I was younger, I had a love for Thierry Henry at Arsenal and Kelly Smith so that was kind of the dream.”
“When you feel comfortable you carry yourself in a way that means you can be your true self.”