Mia Hamm Quotes

As a mother I think you often get so caught up in trying to take care of everyone else that you forget to take care of yourself. But I'm a much better wife and mother when I take the time to take care of myself. ~ Mia Hamm

I played soccer because my friends did. Besides we got sodas afterwards. ~ Mia Hamm

No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance. ~ Mia Hamm

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal. ~ Mia Hamm

I could just have chips and salsa for dinner every day. ~ Mia Hamm

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

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion. ~ Mia Hamm

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it. ~ Mia Hamm

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

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. ~ Mia Hamm

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

I don't like to play rough, but I will if I have to. ~ Mia Hamm

Every day I look for ways to be inspired, to learn and to grow. And trying to be the best for my kids, my husband and my family. One thing I really wanna do is being there for my kids, be part of my siblings and my parents. ~ Mia Hamm

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 ~ Mia Hamm

Go for the Goal! ~ Mia Hamm

Golf is social. It brings a lot of people together. ~ Mia Hamm

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger. ~ Mia Hamm

Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation. ~ Mia Hamm

You're worth the investment in yourself and what you feel, you can and want to be ~ Mia Hamm

You don't just want to beat a team. You want to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see your face again. ~ Mia Hamm

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. ~ Mia Hamm

I know I wouldn't be here, and all of us wouldn't be here, without certain sacrifices and certain stands that people have made
not just women, but men stepping up and supporting what we do and how we do it. ~ Mia Hamm

It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing. ~ Mia Hamm

Sports are not about awards or world championships, though those are great. They're about the relationships we have with each other. ~ Mia Hamm

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. ~ Mia Hamm

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

Follow your heart and make it your decision. ~ Mia Hamm

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

You should want to win. I still remember when I was little. Girls would score a goal, and we would walk together, high-five, and walk back to our positions. Boys are running around, going "I'm Number One." It wasn't like that for young girls. With girls, if you miss the ball on a tackle and hit the other player, it's like, "Oh my God, I'm so sorry. ~ Jere Longman

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. ~ Mia Hamm

When Mia Hamm touches the ball, you just hold your breath. ~ Anson Dorrance

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun. ~ Mia Hamm

Sport taught me how to goal set, it really gave me a voice and identity. ~ Mia Hamm

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. ~ Mia Hamm

True champions arent always the ones that win,but those with the most guts. ~ Mia Hamm

I am happy that the young girls have a lot more choices these days and an opportunity to feel better about themselves. ~ Mia Hamm

I don't like to stop. I'm a big person who looks at where the hubs are because I hate changing planes. ~ Mia Hamm

I don't want to sit and look at all the trophies. I don't want to live in the past
I want to live now! ~ Mia Hamm

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. ~ Mia Hamm

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
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If you've got hips, you can't be a gymnast or dancer. That ruled me out. ~ Mia Hamm

I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field. ~ Mia Hamm

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

If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won. ~ Mia Hamm

I am a member of the 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. ~ Mia Hamm

In the very beginning whenever Mia Hamm or Brandi Chastain would call for the ball, I'd just give it to them immediately because it was them and I was nervous. ~ Heather O'Reilly

I play for the intense challenges that the game on the highest levels present. The whole team enjoys playng exciting soccer for the fans and my part in that makes me feel good about myself. The whole concept of teamwork is what keeps us all going. It's my role to create scoring chances, and to come through for my teammates is extremely satisfying. ~ Mia Hamm

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

Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be. ~ Mia Hamm

When I was playing, they said soccer was a man's world and women should remain on the sidelines, all I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm ~ Pele

First thing she said to me once we got our food: I have one daughter. Thirteen years old. Mia. For Mia Hamm. She was born the day we won the World Cup. So, that's my daughter. ~ Gillian Flynn

Chicken, brown rice, and veggies is a great healthy dinner option. It's full of whole grains and protein, and will keep you full for a long time. ~ Mia Hamm

Experience means you did a lot of things wrong. ~ Mia Hamm

Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention ... Maybe it's because in a country that prides itself on being egalitarian, sport is intellectually and socio-economically an equal playing field. In fact, the more humble your background, the better, the underdog-turned champion is a narrative that resonates powerfully. We're far less interested in the stories of our best doctors, writers, lawyers, engineers, teachers or social workers. Their triumphs do not capture our collective imaginations. ~ Mia Freedman

CLOV:
Do you believe in the life to come?
HAMM:
Mine was always that. ~ Samuel Beckett

Mia has already persevered through so much. One of our biggest fears when she was born was that she wouldn't be able to talk or sing. My wife loves to sing, and she's a world-class singer. Through speech therapy, Mia talks well and can hold a normal conversation with anyone. There isn't an ounce of shyness in her bones! When Mia was four years old, she sang "God Bless America" on one of our Duckmen hunting DVDs. I'm sure most people who watched it thought, Hey, isn't that cute? They've got a little girl singing on the DVD. But when she did it, there wasn't a dry eye in my family. We knew that Mia was born without the ability to sing, and we realized the pain and suffering she endured to be able to sing. It was a huge moment for our family. ~ Jase Robertson

I like to do projects that challenge me, and hopefully in turn challenge the audience, or open your eyes to something you're not aware of. ~ Mia Wasikowska

Drink [the shot of tequila], Mia." He repeated, quietly, using my name this time. He leaned in close to me so that I could feel the heat of his body. "Believe me," His eyes locked on mine and in a hoarse voice he whispered, "you're going to want to be drunk for what I'm going to do to you tonight. ~ Donya Petrock

Mia,' she whispered. I turned around. 'What?' I whispered back.
She smiled at me a little. 'LEEERRROOOY JEEENNKKIINNNSS!' she shouted, then spun around and ran toward the Z's in the lighting section. ~ John Green

Someday, I said, when we're old and gray, I'm going to look at you lying in bed beside me, just like this, and I'm going to look into your eyes and know that it's only ever been you. And that is going to be the great joy of my life, Bree Prescott. ~ Mia Sheridan

What you feel, Cerise? I feel it, too. Fuck, Mia, I feel everything for you. ~ Christina Lauren

– and Mia realized that she was crossing into a place she would have to go alone. ~ Celeste Ng

I'm mostly retired. Now I'm a mother with a really noisy, difficult house to maintain! ~ Mia Sara

I realize how talented our hair and wardrobe people are every time I have to get dressed on my own. ~ Jon Hamm

Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold. ~ Nora Roberts

But it's a terrible thing, Dona Mia, when the ones who should love you best leave you for the wolves. ~ Jay Kristoff

I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That. ~ Mia Kirshner

It's better to live a life full of regrets than not live at all." He lowers his voice and adds huskily, "Let me show you how it's done. ~ Mia Asher

When it came to you, I noticed everything. I fell halfway in love with you before we ever spoke a word. ~ Mia Sheridan

You don't want to flirt with me, Mia."

"Because you don't want a whore?" She sounded so sad, resigned.

"Because you don't want me," he corrected gently. "Old and busted, that's what I am. ~ Kit Rocha

Mia is walking away, walking toward the other end of the bridge. Without me.
I get it now.
I have to make good on my promise. To let her go. To really let her go. To let us both go. ~ Gayle Forman

Watch what people do when they think no one's watching, love. That's how you'll know who they really are ~ Mia Sheridan

I'm going to take the high road because the low road is so crowded. ~ Mia Farrow

Thanks, Marisa. You're the best sister a girl can ask for," Mia told her sincerely.
"I know--and very modest too. ~ Anna Zaires

You are a midnight woman, made from the ashes of witches burned, wielding magic born from their screams. ~ Emma Hamm

Happily ever after doesn't mean a lifetime of perfection. I don't think anyone believes that happily ever after means there are no unhappy days, even unhappy years. It means loving forever, despite all the many reasons it's easier not to. ~ Mia Sheridan

I live life by my own terms. Otherwise, what's the point? I march to someone else's orders, than I'm living someone else's life. I'm not gonna waste my time worrying about what other people think. I do my thing, they do theirs, and everyone's happy. ~ Mia Storm

It was good but it was just a tiny bit uncomfortable because it was a day of lying in the bushes and I think I got a major muscle thing going on there! But it was good. It was fun. That is one of the things you get to do in film that you don't do, or that I don't do, in real life. I can't speak for Dermot [Mulroney]! But it was fun. ~ Mia Wasikowska

If everything about life could be as simple as calculus, my world would be just perfect." -Mia ~ S.T. Bende

I don't know what circumstances occurred in your life for you to build such a strong brick wall around your heart, but I do intend to tear it down." ~Cole ~ Tina Carreiro

As long as we're both under the same moon, we'll always find a way to each other. ~ Mia Sheridan

That's how Tenleigh affected me. I wanted her so desperately I felt like some part of me was starving for her. ~ Mia Sheridan

With a civilian target, female bombers tend to be more successful and cause more damage. ~ Mia Bloom

No one else has ever made me feel the way you do. Not even close. ~ Mia Sheridan

I'll just dance until the music stops, and see where the steps take me. ~ Jay Kristoff

You want to hook me, baby? Take me. Anything, everything. Show me you want something from me and aren't waiting to run when my back is turned. I know I don't deserve you, that most people only get one shot at love. If they blow it, that's it. I forced you to give me a second and third shot. I'll keep asking you for chances because we will never be over ~ Mia Knight

You're jealous of a bird?" she asks.
"What? No!" I snap. I just don't think I like peacocks very much.
"You're jealous of a bird," she says, a glint of amusement coming into her eyes. She glances back at her phone. "He IS gorgeous. Goddddd, soooo gorgeous," she moans out the words, throwing her head back.
"Hilarious," I say, trying not to smile now at my own ridiculousness. "That bird was trying to move in on my territory. I know a brazen male threat when I see one. ~ Mia Sheridan

Sometimes we wore such hurtful, limiting labels in this life, whether they'd been assigned by others or by ourselves. I'd felt damaged and ruined once, but I didn't anymore. I was still a work in progress, but I wasn't a victim. I was a survivor. - Gabriel ~ Mia Sheridan

The jobs I enjoy most are the ones where I never feel like I'm performing. I'm just feeling things. ~ Mia Wasikowska

My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity. ~ Mia Love

Mia is the wind - the hot, dry western wind. And I am gravity. ~ Sophie Hardcastle

Our sizable group was scattered among three different tables, and because the restaurant was a bit noisy, the kids' table didn't hear Alan lead us in the blessing. So Miss Kay went over to their table and led Mia and her cousins in their own prayer, thanking God for the food and asking Him to watch over Mia the next morning. After she finished, she asked the girls if they wanted to add anything. Mia said that she did. They all bowed their heads while Mia prayed for Mrs. Cathy, a dear friend of ours who was recovering from a recent mastectomy and undergoing chemotherapy for stage two breast cancer.
Miss Kay came over to me and Jase with tears in her eyes, recounting what Mia had prayed. "I just assumed she was going to pray for herself, but she prayed for Cathy instead."
When I told Miss Kay that we pray for Cathy each night at bedtime, Kay said, "Well, I guess Mia thought there was no reason that this night should be any different."
She also mentioned that she asked Mia if she was nervous about the next day.
"Not really" was Mia's response.
"But what do you feel?" Miss Kay asked her.
"Nothing. I just don't feel anything, really."
I guess I would interpret her response simply as Mia being at peace. ~ Missy Robertson

Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that. ~ Jon Hamm

The sun continued to rise, casting its light over the earth, brightening the darkness and chasing away the shadows of what had been. And every single day, it reminded me that though life could be lonely and painful, it was also filled with rainbows on water, with fields of daffodils, and angels that emerged from rock. It was filled with delicate flowers that, against all odds, found the strength to turn their faces to the sunshine and thrive. It was filled with miracles that arrived when you least expected them and the hard-won knowledge that healing, like stone, is just sand and pressure and time. ~ Mia Sheridan

Really, lies are so easy to tell when you don't care anymore, or when you have lost all shame. That is my truth. ~ Mia Asher

I need a break. I've been working for about a year and a half. I think I'd like to go to Pakistan. ~ Mia Kirshner

Julian made another effort to breathe. Air. It was all around him, yet he couldn't seem to drag enough into his lungs. He took her hand in his and carried it to the warmth of his mouth.
'We will need to find a safe subject, cara mia, or I will not make it through these next few minutes. ~ Christine Feehan

I barely knew anything about this girl. I only knew that when I was with her, the entire world felt different. It was like this forest was our own secret land, and here, we could be anything we wanted to be. Anything at all. ~ Mia Sheridan

You really do have some pretty fancy words lately."
"Yeah." He put the mistletoe in his pocket and pulled her in closer. "And here's three more ... I love you. ~ Jill Shalvis

Gabriel stared at the dashboard of Hunter's Jeep and made no move to get out of the vehicle.

"I don't know what the hell we're doing here," he said.

"Well," said Hunter, "we could always go back to the house and watch Mamma Mia! with my grandparents. Or maybe we could stare at the police scanner for another hour and wait for nothing to happen. Or maybe "

"I just don't feel like being at a party." At this party. Full of guys who'd know he wasn't allowed on the team. Full of girls who'd tease him about being an idiot.

Hunter's dog stuck his head between the seats, and Gabriel reached up to scratch him behind his ears. "I'll just stay here with the dog."

Hunter sighed and gave him a look. "Come on, baby, don't be like that. Did you pack your Midol?"

"All right, all right." Gabriel climbed out of the car, slamming the door behind him. "I don't even know why I like you. ~ Brigid Kemmerer