Hope Solo Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships.”
-- Hope Solo

#Thinking #Personality #Stronger

“I played soccer all my life and I used to think growing up that they put the fat kid in goal or they put the kid that wasn't good with the ball at their feet in goal and I never wanted to do goalkeeper, I was always the goal scorer.”
-- Hope Solo

#Soccer #Growing Up #Kids

“I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.”
-- Hope Solo

#Book #Want #Rooms

“I had made a vow to never stay in my home state to play, I wanted to go as far East Coast as possible, more or less to get away from my family life. I ended up staying in my home state and fell in love with it. I ended up having a beautiful relationship with my family over time and it was the best decision I've ever made.”
-- Hope Solo

#Beautiful #Home #Play

“I live for competition. It makes my life complete.”
-- Hope Solo

#Competition

“I think every athlete has their window of opportunity, and you just have to jump on it. You never know when it can end. So I'm just trying to live large while I have the opportunity.”
-- Hope Solo

#Athlete #Thinking #Opportunity

“I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.”
-- Hope Solo

#Journey #Winning #Gold

“One thing I've learned through all the ups and downs is that if you're doing things right, then you have a core group of people. Not just a core group like your homies or your buddies, but a group of people that has a good influence on you, who you respect and admire, and you know that if they're on your side, you're doing something right.”
-- Hope Solo

#Your Side #People #Sides

“My No. 1 goal, and what I've spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I want to retire so badly with that World Cup, but if I don't, then I'll retire knowing that I've done everything I could to get it.”
-- Hope Solo

#Winning #Knowing #Goal

“When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.”
-- Hope Solo

#Football #Real #Support

“There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself.”
-- Hope Solo

#Being Yourself #Personality #Trying

“Female athletes are supposed to be toned down. You're always supposed to talk about the team and never stand out.”
-- Hope Solo

#Team #Athlete #Female

“I wear my dad's cross. It's very important to me. I hang it in my locker before each game.”
-- Hope Solo

#Dad #Games #Important

“I have a problem with players who don't take the loss personally. At a professional level you should - it's our job, it's our livelihood, it's who we are at this level. Every loss should be taken that personal.”
-- Hope Solo

#Jobs #Taken #Loss

“If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone's expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence.”
-- Hope Solo

#Soccer #Dream #Numbers

“In front of the world, all of a sudden I'm a great athlete and I'm put into an environment with 25 other women and I'm expected to go to team meals, team functions.”
-- Hope Solo

#Team #Athlete #Meals

“Everybody should be affected by their own realities in their own lives, their own struggles in their own lives. It makes us who we are, and we all know that.”
-- Hope Solo

#Struggle #Reality #Who We Are

“No one wants to lose, period. It should hurt, it should sting, and you don't want to feel that feeling again.”
-- Hope Solo

#Hurt #Feelings #Want

“My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.”
-- Hope Solo

#People #Spotlight #Want

“Nobody really knows who I am, where I came from, what's in my heart, why I believe in the things I believe, what I see behind the scenes and they don't see.”
-- Hope Solo

#Believe #Heart #Who I Am

“I have no personal beef with Brandi Chastain. There's nothing personal.”
-- Hope Solo

#Beef

“I have an attitude. It's what I do. I'm edgy. I have an attitude.”
-- Hope Solo

#Attitude

“I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics.”
-- Hope Solo

#Writing #Ipods #Singers

“I couldn't have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.”
-- Hope Solo

#Agility #Goalkeepers #Quickness

“I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer.”
-- Hope Solo

#Soccer #Focus #Want

“I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.”
-- Hope Solo

#Team #Victory #Needs

“I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids.”
-- Hope Solo

#Sports #Fun #Hate

“I burn so many calories when I work out that I don't really count calories or necessarily try and stay away from anything.”
-- Hope Solo

#Work Out #Trying #Calories

“You're always going to survive the pain of loss. I can live with that confidence inside of me.”
-- Hope Solo

#Pain #Loss #Losing

“You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.”
-- Hope Solo

#Media #Negative #Journalist