Top 110 Quotes & Sayings by Tobin Heath

I think for people that have supported the women's game for a long time, I think they understand the struggles that we have continually faced and that we've continually fought back against.

I think I'm more traditional in how I do media. I want my brand to be about football.

There is only one club in Manchester.

I'd love to see a global competition other than the World Cup.

We fight to win games and we fight for things off the field too.

Tactical and technical awareness can only improve and sharpen with time.

As a footballer, I'm never satisfied with where I'm at.

Defending is easy. You just have to want to defend. It's not like defending is hard. It's just, like, more of an attitude.

Similar to the familiarity I've always had with the ball, there's this familiarity that the game has given me over years of understanding it and living it.

You're able to see situations over and over again and just become comfortable in different decision-making situations. I think that comes with experience.

I think that's probably one of my favorite things - learning and creating incredible relationships and making mistakes and being responsible for that.

I hate when the other team has the ball.

We believe that we get so that we can give, and we've been so blessed in the platforms and opportunities that we've been given.

I think it's being able to do both, obviously being able to play your role in the team and those responsibilities but also being able to have that freedom... to express yourself in the way that you play.

I was always inspired by Brazilian football growing up. Those huge Nike campaigns, the Jogo Bonito campaigns that had Ronaldinho, that's the beauty of the game that I love.

Manchester United is an exceptional club and I'm thrilled to be joining them.

For the longest time people were like, 'Oh you play soccer, what else do you do?' Cause they couldn't believe that you could just be women's professional athlete. That's really frustrating because it's almost devaluing your actual skill and ability.

I think problems... kind of just excite me.

It was almost like I gravitated toward the people who were encouraging me to be like myself and to be creative and be different.

I'm very creative, intuitive - I like to entertain.

I love to continue to evolve as a player, and sometimes the only places you can do that is when you're uncomfortable, and sometimes when you're at home for too long, it's not that.

The most important thing to me is to inspire all these athletes in the next generation.

I love superhero movies.

I think because of our society, and the way that I grew up in soccer, I had to become well-rounded, but I also cherished the parts of me that made me special. I'm thankful for that because it's made me a better player.

When I need strength in hard times, I know I have a God that can move mountains. Or if I'm going through a time of success, I can just rejoice in the Lord and give glory to Him knowing that He's given me the gifts to be able to accomplish what I have. Everything comes back to Him.

I'm aware that I'm now a role model for younger players. I bring more maturity to practice - it's more of a work environment to me, where I consciously work to get better each day.

Every opportunity that you get in life to do something unique, that's going to challenge you and push you, is an opportunity that I want to take, especially as a footballer.

When I put on my first Man Utd training kit, it felt enormous in a way that was really special in kind of like a childhood dream type way. Obviously, we don't have that history in the U.S., so to be able to put on a shirt like that as an American was really special.

I remember when Manchester United came into the league and I remember saying, 'Wow, this is huge. This is huge for a club like this to have a women's team.' It's so important for clubs with all this tradition, history, power, influence to have a women's team and to see the progress that they've made and what they've put into it.

My coaches - and even my parents - wanted to give me the space for exploration to see what I could do. Or even to see what I couldn't do and what I would want to learn how to do. It was always about inspiring me and giving me that freedom that you would want in childhood.

It's really cool to be not just winning and fighting for things on the field, but fighting for things off the field and doing so in a way through sport I think is really powerful.

I grew up loving Brazilian soccer. What made me think soccer was cool was these guys making soccer look like fun and easy, and they would just destroy people. It was an art. I loved that. And that's the way I learned the game and mimicked a style. It's just so beautiful.

We really believe that mentorship is a powerful tool.

Manchester United is like the American team in the Premier League, and everyone knows the weight of it back home. It is so exciting for me to wear a badge that is well known.

The ocean is so powerful and so healing at the same time. It's kind of like a sanctuary. And the culture of the people in surfing, I love that. It's such a community. It's just got this, like, chill way about it. When you're in the water, it's very inclusive.

I just know who I am and what I like.

There's nothing better than being your own boss, especially after when you play soccer, you're just controlled by so many different forces. So owning your own company and being your own bosses, it's so liberating and freeing and you get to finally make decisions for yourself, which I think is really powerful.

There aren't enough women-run businesses.

As I've gotten older, I've been given more responsibility. I think I've grown into that.

I think football in general globally has a unique way of uniting people instead of dividing people.

I think you have to obviously be familiar with how the team wants to play and play to that style. But I think you also have to find a way to be yourself.

People don't want to just root for a team anymore. They want to root for something more.

In football in this country, we want to be able to check off every box of a soccer player. You have to be good at this and this and this. Because of our society, and the way that I grew up in soccer, I had to become well-rounded-but I also cherished the parts of me that made me special.

The greatest tip ever told to me is 'Don't be afraid to make mistakes.'

I wasn't put here to win gold medals or national championships. I've been placed here to be a light for Christ.

I think defending is more of, like, a science, and it's fun to learn that. And then I see attacking as an art.

The NWSL is a great league. It's so competitive from every single team and every single game. They have the right people and they are invested in it.

I think I do get excited by challenges and I do find a sense of motivation and purpose within those.

I love to learn.

It's a privilege to be able to play a host country in a host nation, because it's just that much bigger and these are the type of games that we love.

All of my football, even my introduction, even my coaches, most of them came from Europe, particularly England. So pretty much my whole footballing education and introduction was through English football.

When everybody starts a company, they are so energized and passionate about it. And what happens is that a lot of times maybe that's not sustainable.

Any footballer's dream would be to play for Manchester United and to play at Old Trafford. The pitch just has this iconic feeling about it. It's elevated like it's almost a stage for the players, and I always enjoyed that you can kind of just slip right off the edges. Seeing the little nuances of it, you know, it's just special to be there.

For me it was massive there was interest from Manchester United. To sign for such a club was important to me in my football career.

I think I always had, like, a rebellious spirit. But it wasn't a rebellious spirit to do wrong. It was a rebellious spirit to do something different.

I don't want a perfect life, I don't want an easy life, I want to live life to the fullest. To me that feels like conquering as many things as possible.

I feel like, City, because they're this modern global team, in the United States we think they're a really big club. But here in Manchester, it's not a big club.

I always try and get as many as touches as I can with the ball because that's the most important thing for me as a player is to feel comfortable in that way.

I'm a footballer through and through. It's all I've ever wanted to be.

Ronaldinho is the best. I just like the joy and the love he has when he plays, it just shines for everyone else to see. He always does something nobody expects him to do. I think that's really cool, that creativity you don't find anywhere else.