131 Quotes by Abby Wambach

My parents, they're the kind of people that didn't want me to get a big head, so they just kept challenging me and challenging me.

During events like the World Cup and the Olympics, I tend to get really wrapped up in my own experience to stay focused, but it's like a bubble. I don't see much outside my own perspective.

Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.

I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.

A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.

The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.

As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.

It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.