Caroline Graham Hansen

"As a girl, you were always told you were not supposed to be able to live from football. Adults try to tell kids to choose the right way, but what they knew as normal when they were kids doesn’t necessarily mean it was normal when we grew up. It was a goal to prove them wrong, and eventually developed to: ‘I want to show that I can live from it.’"

"During the years your brain has learned to read the movements of the body. Football is played with your head: you need confidence, to be smart, to make the right decisions. This feeling of thrill is why I do it."

"Nothing comes for free in life, but I thought I had earned a certain amount of respect, but maybe that wasn’t the case."

"I had a natural aggression to the game. I have a temperament."

"They didn’t choose it, the situation, and it’s hard for humans who have to flee for their lives. We start wars. The people who suffer from it come to new countries but nobody has the capacity, or even the will, to help them."

"Then you have kids again in this situation who can’t do anything about it. Kids are supposed to be kids. This is not the only big problem we have in the world today when it comes to being human to each other."