Hope Solo Quotes - Page 2

I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.

Speech is the image of actions

As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn't matter what your interests are. People can have their own lives.

When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.

Athletes are extremists. When they're training, it's laser focus.

I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.

Everybody should be affected by their own realities in their own lives, their own struggles in their own lives. It makes us who we are, and we all know that.

I'm just going to embrace every experience.

I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and family.

My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.

Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves.

My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love.

It's a complicated thing, knowing how much pain my father caused in my life and the lives of others whom I love, yet still holding love for him in my heart. No matter what he did, he was my father. He helped create the person I am.

My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.

In front of the world, all of a sudden I'm a great athlete and I'm put into an environment with 25 other women and I'm expected to go to team meals, team functions.

My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. He just, he had a rough life. You know, he grew up in a boys home in the Bronx. He didn't really know his own family. So I couldn't hold it against him that he didn't know how to parent. He didn't know how to be the perfect husband. But he loved as much as he could.

I played in Europe and it was a great experience, not just because of my team-mates and the coaches we had, but from the fans and the city itself - I played in Gothenburg and I played in Lyon and soccer was everywhere.

I put all of my energy into building the game and giving women opportunities and, to put everything into it and then to be deemed selfish or not a good team player or outspoken, it's been hard. But at the same time, I'm going to get the critics and I know that.

I love pedicures. And, yes, I have a ton of shoes.

I know I can't dance. I am the worst dancer. I have no rhythm. I just do step-and-snap. I love it in the privacy of my own home and every once in a while at a club. But singing and dancing are my two greatest fears.

It was hard. I came to grips with a lot of difficulties that I've overcome. Each challenge kind of makes you who you are. It wasn't always a good thing. I have my own struggles in my life because of the things I was forced to overcome.

I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person.

I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics.

Female athletes are supposed to be toned down. You're always supposed to talk about the team and never stand out.

I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer.