120 Quotes by Mia Hamm

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

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be fun.

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.

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 learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.

Sports can do so much. It’s given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it’s worth it if you score a spectacular goal.

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.

Anson Dorrance... left me a short, encouraging note: “The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when nobody else is watching.