Abby Wambach Quotes

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Abby Wambach

Profession : Athlete

Birth : June 2, 1980

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.

Abby Wambach

Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.

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I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.

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

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I have a unique ability to predict the flight of the ball, and my teammates have a unique ability to find me.

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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.

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When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.

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

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

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When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.

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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.

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I would love to be a mum if I'm blessed to have children. My wife and I have those plans.

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The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.

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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.

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I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Abby Wambach

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.

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