Mia Hamm

“It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.”

“You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.”

“The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.”

“I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.”

“Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.”

“Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.”

“My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too.”

“If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.”

“True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.”

“Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.”

“Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.”

“I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.”

“The most important attribute a player can have is to be coachable.”

“Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.”