Abby Wambach Quotes

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Abby Wambach

Profession : Athlete

Birth : June 2, 1980

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

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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.

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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.

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As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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I think making the referee aware of a situation, there is nothing wrong with that.

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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.

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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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Nobody is offered a World Cup.

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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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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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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.

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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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