Mia Hamm Sports Quotations

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.

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

I am a member of a 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.

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

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

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.

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

There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

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.

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.

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