Mia Hamm Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.

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

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

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.

I'm a part of a team, and I'm no better or any worse than any single player on this team. That's the approach I've always had and will continue to have. It's not about me. It has never been all about me. If it had, this would have been a really lonely journey.

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.

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

Every single day I wake up and commit myself to becoming a better player. Some days it happens, and some days it doesn't. Sure, there are games I'm going to dominate and there are going to be games when I struggle. But it doesn't mean I give up.

Focus on what you know you can do. Know what you're capable of on any given day, and what you can count on. Do the simple things well, and then use the confidence to build up the rest of your game. Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

Good players create opportunities. The great players and the great people seize them

Sports can do so much. They've given me a framework: meeting new people, confidence, self-esteem, discipline, motivation. All these things I learned, whether I knew I was learning them or not, through sports.

After each game, I want to be able to say: I gave it all I could, I gave it my best.

Follow your heart and make it your decision.

Goals have never defined me as a player. What has defined me is my impact on the team. If that means passing or playing defense to win, I'll do it.

The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness.

When players go out and train on their own, they usually do it at half speed. This kind of training is valuable, but it doesn't prepare you for competition, where you must perform at full throttle. So the trick is to schedule regular sessions of intense practice, while always leaving time to juggle and generally goof around with the ball

We play because we love the game, we love each other, and we love to win.