Abby Wambach Quotes
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.
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When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.
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There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.
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Any little touch a defender can make on me when I'm in the air literally moves me. On the ground, I can use my muscle, but in the air, it's harder to fight that off.
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At the most elite level, your nutrition becomes a lifestyle: it's not something you have to do when you're preparing for Olympic games or World Cup games - you just do it. You're more inclined to eat healthier because it's better for your muscles.
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From a pretty early age, my mother realized that I was a little bit more gifted and talented than my own age group. So, she moved me over to play with the boys' travel soccer team when I was about 11 years old.
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International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
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I'm fiercely patriotic, and the flag and the anthem is something that I really, really respect.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.
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I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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I'm pretty goofy. I laugh at my own jokes.
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You know me, I'm not that kind of person that cares to unveil all of my personal things to the world because frankly, in terms of my soccer, it doesn't matter.
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I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.