Top 44 Abby Wambach Quotes

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.

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.

2014 was physically a tough year because I injured my knee, and you know how that goes with your emotions and the mentality.

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.

I’m fiercely patriotic, and the flag and the anthem is something that I really, really respect.

I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.

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.

My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.

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 would say Hope Solo is competitive.

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 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.

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’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.

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.

I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I’m not scared to fail.

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.

There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.

I’ll be honest. After I got married, I definitely had a shift in emotional devotion.

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.

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.

To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.

Any good attacker will always beat a defender who’s face-marking you.

My go-to karaoke? ‘Alone’ by Celine Dion.

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.

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.

It’s a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.

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 would trade all the individual awards I’ve won for a World Cup.

I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people – or the worst.

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 don’t care how many championships you’ve won or how many records you’ve broken – if you’ve had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport’s movement, then I think that’s pretty darn good.

It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren’t able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they’re coming here.

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.

I know that I’ll end up being a role model for many, many people out there for all kinds of reasons.

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.

Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.

I’ve always had a dream of owning a restaurant.

Soccer players generally burn through all of their carbohydrate stores by halftime, so how are you going to replace those? That’s what we do at halftime.

I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.

I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.

I’m not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it’s always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.

As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We’re the people at the gym that look like we’re breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It’s not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.