Abby Wambach Quotes

• I've never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else.

  Abby Wambach

  Goal, Inspirational Soccer

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• You never know if you can actually do something against all odds until you actually do it.

  Abby Wambach

  Odds, Against All Odds, Knows

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• No I or individual is better than the team. I've scored no goals just on my own. Every goal I've ever scored has been because of someone else on my team, their excellence, their bravery. And I'm kind of the end product of a collection of a really good vibe, and feeling, and creativity on the field.

  Abby Wambach

  Team, Creativity, Goal

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• You must not only have competitiveness but ability, regardless of the circumstance you face, to never quit

  Abby Wambach

  Never Quit, Faces, Quitting

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• To watch people push themselves further than they think they can, it's a beautiful thing. It's really human.

  Abby Wambach

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• If we can trust each other and leave everything-all our hearts-out on the field, I think we're going to have something to come home to and cheer about.

  Abby Wambach

  Cheer, Home, Heart

  "U.S. Women's Soccer Team: What Success Looks Like Now" by Shaun Dreisbach, www.glamour.com. May 5, 2015.

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• It's not pressure. It's responsibility We put it on ourselves.

  Abby Wambach

  Responsibility, Pressure

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• I'm not going to tell people how to live their life and I surely wouldn't tell people my life is the way you should be living. People get to choose what they do want to do with their life and I appreciated that.

  Abby Wambach

  People, Want, Way

  "Abby Wambach discusses her marriage, sport and future". Interview with Jeff Di Veronica, www.usatoday.com. March 30, 2014.

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• If given a really great chance, I'm going to put it away every single time.

  Abby Wambach

  Chance, Given, Really Great

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• I don't care who scores the goals, I'm going to leave my human beingness on the field!

  Abby Wambach

  Goal, Care, Fields

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• 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.

  Abby Wambach

  Sadness, Games, Validation

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• You can do as many sprints as you want but there's nothing like playing in a 90-minute soccer game. There's no better way to gain your fitness, in my opinion, than playing in consistent games.

  Abby Wambach

  Soccer, Games, Want

  "Abby Wambach discusses her marriage, sport and future". Interview with Jeff Di Veronica, www.usatoday.com. March 30, 2014.

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• Four goals in (16) minutes. Literally I don't even know how that happens especially in a World Cup final.

  Abby Wambach

  Goal, World, Four

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• It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.

  Abby Wambach

  Hurt, Player, People

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• Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we’re embarrassed because that’s not the way we want to play soccer.

  Abby Wambach

  Soccer, Player, Want

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• Playing on turf affects everything, you know, it affects the way the ball rolls, it affects the way the ball bounces, it affects the way you think about whether or not going into a slide. It's kind of a nightmare.

  Abby Wambach

  Thinking, Balls, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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