Abby Wambach Quotes
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If you break an individual record, it's because of the greatness that comes before you.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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I would trade all the individual awards I've won for a World Cup.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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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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I'm not in the business of politics.
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There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.
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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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Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.
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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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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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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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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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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 fiercely patriotic, and the flag and the anthem is something that I really, really respect.
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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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As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.
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I'm pretty goofy. I laugh at my own jokes.
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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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Forever, it was just soccer - passion, life, love. Then I got married, and I had to transfer some of my energy. I want to be my best for my country, but I also made a really big promise and choice to be the best in my marriage. That has not always been the easiest thing to manage.
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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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Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I think it's good to shake up things a little bit.