Abby Wambach Quotes

I would trade all the individual awards I've won for a World Cup.

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• I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Been
  • Little
  • Little Bit

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Brilliant
  • Rude
  • Outrageous

• I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Years
  • Through
  • Over

• Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • White
  • Though
  • Hispanic

• You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Like
  • Hair
  • Gray

• Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Love
  • Person
  • For Her

• It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Music
  • Wisdom
  • Audience

• Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Father
  • Best
  • Boy

• When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Clothes
  • Uncomfortable

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Musicians

• If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Happy
  • Right
  • Duty

• If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Together
  • Girl
  • Courage

• It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Selfish

• Nobody represents America’s values better than the American people, and I believe this contact will ultimately do more to empower the Cuban people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• As a human being, you can't not connect to the chaos that exists around the world on a day-to-day, or things that you've seen on the news just here domestically.

  

  Elizabeth Rodriguez
  • World
  • Chaos

• What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Fear
  • Responsibility
  • Dying

• In Pakistan, the right to go to school is not a given. In the more rural areas, a girl is born, married off as early as 9 years old, and basically lives life under the control of men.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • Life
  • Men
  • School

• I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • World
  • Home
  • Age

• I would trade all the individual awards I've won for a World Cup.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Individual
  • Awards