Abby Wambach Quotes
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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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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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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When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
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I have a unique ability to predict the flight of the ball, and my teammates have a unique ability to find me.
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I think, as you grow older, you have figure out the best way to utilize not only your body but your skill.
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When you're younger and traveling and visiting new countries and cities, that stuff is exciting; it's flashy, it's shiny, but I always had this separation between who I was as a person and who I was as a player.
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Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.
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I think that in order to get better as an athlete and to see whatever kind of results you're after, you have to make goals. Whether you write them down or tell someone about them, it's important to set goals for yourself in order to achieve any kind of success.
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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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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.
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I don't know if I found soccer or if soccer found me. Especially because when I was younger, I was doing it, in a lot of ways, because I wanted the attention of my mom and dad.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.
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The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.
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You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.
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I hope we can get to a point where women players are being paid properly all around the world so the only thing they have to worry about is playing football and playing football alone.
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I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.
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One thing I love to do when I'm working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and just run - not for time, not for exertion, but just to get the blood flowing.
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The minute you step off that podium is the minute you start preparing for the next world championship. That's kind of how I work. You celebrate for a brief moment, then you move on.
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During events like the World Cup and the Olympics, I tend to get really wrapped up in my own experience to stay focused, but it's like a bubble. I don't see much outside my own perspective.
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Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.
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The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.
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A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.