131 Quotes by Abby Wambach

You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.

Forever, it was just soccer - passion, life, love. Then I got married, and I had to transfer some of my energy. I want to be my best for my country, but I also made a really big promise and choice to be the best in my marriage. That has not always been the easiest thing to manage.

This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don't know, but when I'm not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness, in a lot of ways, when I'm not playing.

I'm going to do anything I can do - whether that's being part of FIFA or creating some sort of movement that can actually impart real equality across all lines - in every country, every city, every sector all over the world, that's what I'm going to do.

When you're younger and traveling and visiting new countries and cities, that stuff is exciting; it's flashy, it's shiny, but I always had this separation between who I was as a person and who I was as a player.

I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

Nobody is offered a World Cup.

I would say Hope Solo is competitive.

International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.