Wolfpack Abby Wambach Quotes

Note: When they say you're ridiculous, you know you're onto something. ~ Abby Wambach

If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great. ~ Abby Wambach

If we can trust each other and leave everything-all our hearts-out on the field, I think we're going to have something to come home to and cheer about. ~ Abby Wambach

As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself. ~ Abby Wambach

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

My teammates have put me in all different kinds of positions to score goals, and I can't say it enough, and I really through and through believe it in my heart that I'm only as good as my teammates allow me to be. ~ Abby Wambach

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

I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good. ~ Abby Wambach

Any little touch a defender can make on me when I'm in the air literally moves me. On the ground, I can use my muscle, but in the air, it's harder to fight that off. ~ Abby Wambach

People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played. ~ Abby Wambach

You never know if you can actually do something against all odds until you actually do it. ~ Abby Wambach

I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant. ~ Abby Wambach

Women must stop following the Old Rules, which exist only to maintain the status quo. If we follow the rules we've always followed, the game will remain the same. Old ways of thinking will never help us build a new world. Out with the Old. In with the New. ~ Abby Wambach

No I or individual is better than the team. I've scored no goals just on my own. Every goal I've ever scored has been because of someone else on my team, their excellence, their bravery. And I'm kind of the end product of a collection of a really good vibe, and feeling, and creativity on the field. ~ Abby Wambach

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. ~ Abby Wambach

Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American. ~ Abby Wambach

I think that in order to get better as an athlete and to see whatever kind of results you're after, you have to make goals. Whether you write them down or tell someone about them, it's important to set goals for yourself in order to achieve any kind of success. ~ Abby Wambach

I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions. ~ Abby Wambach

Wear what you want.
Love who you love.
Become what you imagine.
Create what you need.
You were never Little Red Riding Hood.
You were always the Wolf. ~ Abby Wambach

I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids. ~ Abby Wambach

If given a really great chance, I'm going to put it away every single time. ~ Abby Wambach

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

When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game. ~ Abby Wambach

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

I have a unique ability to predict the flight of the ball, and my teammates have a unique ability to find me. ~ Abby Wambach

Four goals in (16) minutes. Literally I don't even know how that happens especially in a World Cup final. ~ Abby Wambach

I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself. ~ Abby Wambach

It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings. ~ Abby Wambach

A champion never allows a short-term failure to take her out of a long-term game. ~ Abby Wambach

At the most elite level, your nutrition becomes a lifestyle: it's not something you have to do when you're preparing for Olympic games or World Cup games - you just do it. You're more inclined to eat healthier because it's better for your muscles. ~ Abby Wambach

Recently, on a call with a company hiring me to teach about leadership, a man said, "Excuse me, Abby, I just need to ensure that what you present is applicable to men, too."
I said, "Good question! But only if you've asked every male speaker you;ve hired if his message is applicable to women, too. ~ Abby Wambach

I think making the referee aware of a situation, there is nothing wrong with that. ~ Abby Wambach

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. ~ Abby Wambach

There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold. ~ Abby Wambach

What keeps the pay gap in existence is not just the entitlement and complicity of men. It's the gratitude of women. Our gratitude is how power uses the tokenism of a few women to keep the rest of us in line. ~ Abby Wambach