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Daily Inspiration Quote by Parminder Nagra

"In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really"

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A whole history of gatekeeping sits inside Nagra's casual shrug. She frames the exclusion the way it’s often experienced: not as a rule posted on a wall, but as a vibe. “It wasn’t really a thing that girls did” isn’t a manifesto; it’s the soft power of tradition, the kind that doesn’t need policing because it recruits everyone to do the policing for free. The specificity matters: England, school sports, the quiet sorting mechanism of “Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that.” Soccer isn’t banned; it’s simply not offered as a natural option.

The phrase “in terms of soccer” signals how gender becomes a set of lanes even within something as basic as play. She’s pointing at the way institutions and culture collaborate: curricula, coaches, parental expectations, peer ridicule. The subtext is that “choice” gets staged after the menu has already been decided.

Then she lands on “It’s to each their own, really,” a line that reads like diplomacy but carries a sting. It’s the classic way people survive environments where pushing back costs social capital: you acknowledge the system, you sidestep the fight, you keep moving. Coming from Nagra, an actress whose breakout work is bound up with British-Asian identity and a girl claiming soccer anyway, the remark doubles as origin story. Not a grand speech about sexism, just the more believable truth: norms are enforced most effectively when they’re described as common sense.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Nagra, Parminder. (2026, January 17). In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-terms-of-soccer-it-wasnt-really-a-thing-that-75815/

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Nagra, Parminder. "In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-terms-of-soccer-it-wasnt-really-a-thing-that-75815/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-terms-of-soccer-it-wasnt-really-a-thing-that-75815/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Parminder Nagra (born October 5, 1975) is a Actress from England.

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