Lucy Bronze Quotes

English footballer (born 1991)

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Lucia Roberta Tough Bronze MBE (born 28 October 1991) is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Liga F club Barcelona and the England women's national team. She has previously played for Sunderland, Everton, Liverpool, Lyon and Manchester City as well as North Carolina at college level in the United States and Great Britain at the Olympics. Bronze has won three UEFA Women's Champions League titles with Lyon and one with Barcelona. She has also won three FA Women's Super League titles, with Liverpool and Manchester City. With England, she won the UEFA Women's Euro 2022.

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Birth Name: Lucia Roberta Tough Bronze

Native Name: Lucia Bronze

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As I’ve got older I’ve realised that I don’t need to prove myself every single minute and wind people up by doing it.

I wanted to be playing with the best players in the world and learn a different style of the game. I’ve found another way to enjoy football. I’ve fallen in love with football again.

I’ve always had the view that, when I’ve retired and I look back on my career, then I’ll be happy and proud of my achievements.

Everyone loves the accolades, everyone loves people saying “oh you’re the best player” but what happens when that stops? Where are you going to get your motivation from? You have to have your own motivation to be able to keep you at the top.

There’s now a place for women in the game to speak about their journeys and what has happened to them on the way. I think small changes are being addressed but for me I think a lot of what we see is more token gestures.

There’s always another trophy to win.

But while I’m in the thick of it, it’s always about, ‘What can I do next? What is the next thing I haven’t won or the mission I haven’t completed?’

I think it’s important to feel confident in what you’re wearing, so now I take the approach that I’m going to wear something because I think it looks cool. I don’t care what anybody else thinks.

I’m constantly striving for the next thing, the next victory, the next landmark in my career. I suppose it’s one of the best assets, but it also means I’m never truly satisfied with what I have or what I have just achieved.

That feeling of winning is so addictive. And the feeling of not winning is super horrible as well – I’m not a great loser.

It’s important for experienced players to remember that younger players are aspiring to be like you and will copy your actions as well as what you say.

I think it’s easy to take motivation from other people. When people have great things to say about you, who doesn’t like that.

People aren’t going to like you 24/7, people don’t like me 24/7.

Naturally, you’re just always looking for the best in everything you do and football is no different. We want it to be a huge spectacle.

If you want to get rid of any discrimination you have to really go to the heart of it and it can’t be about doing things because they look nice or enhance somebody’s reputation. It has to be heartfelt and there needs to be a desire to actually make a real change to the game behind the scenes.