Quotes About Achievement

I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.

The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment.

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.

It used to break my heart that I didn't get to start in varsity soccer!

I would love to inspire our nation and continue the success of U.S. women's soccer.

The first time I won a medal in the all-around competition is when I realized that's what I wanted to do pretty much for the rest of my life. Even though I was still doing baseball and soccer at the time, I think I just found that that was more my passion, where I saw a lot more success... I was probably eight or nine years old.

I always thought I was going to be a soccer player, get a scholarship to college, and then join the U.S. women's team.

My dream was always to play soccer.

I wasn't a cheerleader in high school, but I was the leader of my soccer team.

I thought that basketball and soccer were hard. And then I went to track practice. It's just running and running and running. And my event was the 400 hurdles. I ended up qualifying for state. But looking back on it, track was hard.

You always have to prove yourself. I always thought I had to go beyond things to get great grades. When I was applying for college, even though I knew I was going to play soccer, I always knew I had to do something above and beyond and not give anyone a reason not to overlook me.

I started playing with my dad, and then I started going to soccer schools in Sunderland and managed to get scouted from there.

I had to play for a soccer team, I had to be an athlete, I had to make straight As. I was very hard on myself, and it paid off now.

I did every sport and I played soccer in college.

I played soccer and could have probably made it to the top league.

My biggest dream from the moment I started playing soccer was to join the national side. I was privileged to be part of the team and to serve as its captain and there's no greater honor.

Now winning is more important and it trumps the way you achieve it. Unfortunately for soccer, the style doesn't matter so much.

I've been through everything in soccer.

I'm being told I've become an inspiration to a lot of young soccer players in Edmonton and to me, that's just awesome.

Well, Argentina has a big idols in soccer, in different sport. I'm just doing my job, trying to be an example for the kids, to teach them that you have to do effort to get your goals in your life.

It's hard to have a good career in soccer, especially women's soccer.

My best season at New England was probably my first in charge. We reached the final of the Major League Soccer Cup in 2002, losing in extra time against Los Angeles Galaxy.

I've been playing soccer since I was about nine-years-old.

They don't call it the Italian Dream or the English Dream. In America, there is the American Dream. It was the first place to give people of any social background their dream. You can achieve anything.