American - Athlete | June 2, 1980 -
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.
Abby Wambach
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Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
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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.
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My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.
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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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Any little touch a defender can make on me when I'm in the air literally moves me. On the ground, I can use my muscle, but in the air, it's harder to fight that off.
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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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If you break an individual record, it's because of the greatness that comes before you.
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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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