131 Quotes by Abby Wambach

People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.

Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I think it's good to shake up things a little bit.

The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.

The most important thing is to get better at your craft, and concussions and head impacts are a setback.

When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.

As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

From a pretty early age, my mother realized that I was a little bit more gifted and talented than my own age group. So, she moved me over to play with the boys' travel soccer team when I was about 11 years old.

I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.