Top 107 Quotes & Sayings by Abby Wambach
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Last updated on November 4, 2024.
I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.
Nobody is offered a World Cup.
I'm going to do anything I can do - whether that's being part of FIFA or creating some sort of movement that can actually impart real equality across all lines - in every country, every city, every sector all over the world, that's what I'm going to do.
I'll be honest. After I got married, I definitely had a shift in emotional devotion.
I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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.
People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don't know, but when I'm not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness, in a lot of ways, when I'm not playing.
I think, as you grow older, you have figure out the best way to utilize not only your body but your skill.
I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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.
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.
As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.
I'm a pretty decent cook. I like to grill. I have a smoker that I love. I love me some steak. And I'll make a huge salad with a ton of vegetables.
I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
My teammates have put me in all different kinds of positions to score goals, and I can't say it enough, and I really through and through believe it in my heart that I'm only as good as my teammates allow me to be.
I'm not in the business of politics.
My go-to karaoke? 'Alone' by Celine Dion.
People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.
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.
Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.
The most important thing is to get better at your craft, and concussions and head impacts are a setback.
The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.
As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.
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.
For any athlete growing up, the Olympics is the one thing you watch with your family, and it's the one thing you dream about. Seeing your country's flag go up as you get a gold medal is the best thing you can achieve.
I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.
Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.
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.
I think making the referee aware of a situation, there is nothing wrong with that.
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.
I want to reduce my risks as much as possible and hopefully be able to go to the World Cup fit, ready and healthy.
I'm pretty goofy. I laugh at my own jokes.
My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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.
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.
It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
My parents, they're the kind of people that didn't want me to get a big head, so they just kept challenging me and challenging me.
I think there's so much emphasis on body image and results and outcome, but really what you should be after is to be healthy and to feel good about yourself.
As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.
The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.
Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.
2014 was physically a tough year because I injured my knee, and you know how that goes with your emotions and the mentality.
I know that I'll end up being a role model for many, many people out there for all kinds of reasons.
Winning, you can overlook so many things.
When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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.
When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.
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.
I haven't won a World Cup. There's things that haven't been finished, and I'm not afraid to fall flat on my face trying.
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