Abby Wambach People Quotations

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

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

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

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.

Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

People do this to live a healthy lifestyle and that's exactly the type of life I want to promote,