Hope Solo Quotes - Page 2

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• I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.

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  Live Life, Thinking, People

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• Speech is the image of actions

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  Speech, Action

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• As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn't matter what your interests are. People can have their own lives.

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  Athlete, Player, People

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• 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.

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  Football, Real, Support

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• Athletes are extremists. When they're training, it's laser focus.

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  Athlete, Focus, Training

  "Will you still medal in the morning?" by Sam Alipour, www.espn.com. July 8, 2012.

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• I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.

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  Book, Want, Rooms

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• 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.

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  Struggle, Reality, Who We Are

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• I'm just going to embrace every experience.

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  Embrace

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• I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and family.

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  Soccer, Dating, Family And Friends

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• My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.

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  Years, World, Four

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• Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves.

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  Athlete, Nerves, Way

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• My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love.

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  Brother, Father, My Brother

  "Soccer Star Hope Solo On Loving Lost Parents". "All Things Considered" with Cheryl Corley, www.npr.org. August 18, 2012.

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• It's a complicated thing, knowing how much pain my father caused in my life and the lives of others whom I love, yet still holding love for him in my heart. No matter what he did, he was my father. He helped create the person I am.

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  Pain, Father, Heart

  Hope Solo (2013). “Solo: A Memoir of Hope”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.

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  Broken, Promise, Next

  Hope Solo (2013). “Solo: A Memoir of Hope”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• 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.

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  Team, Athlete, Meals

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• My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. He just, he had a rough life. You know, he grew up in a boys home in the Bronx. He didn't really know his own family. So I couldn't hold it against him that he didn't know how to parent. He didn't know how to be the perfect husband. But he loved as much as he could.

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  Brother, Husband, Father

  "Soccer Star Hope Solo On Loving Lost Parents". Interview with Cheryl Corley, listen.sdpb.org. August 18, 2012.

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• I played in Europe and it was a great experience, not just because of my team-mates and the coaches we had, but from the fans and the city itself - I played in Gothenburg and I played in Lyon and soccer was everywhere.

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  Soccer, Team, Europe

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• I put all of my energy into building the game and giving women opportunities and, to put everything into it and then to be deemed selfish or not a good team player or outspoken, it's been hard. But at the same time, I'm going to get the critics and I know that.

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  Selfish, Team, Opportunity

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I love pedicures. And, yes, I have a ton of shoes.

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  Shoes, Pedicures

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• I know I can't dance. I am the worst dancer. I have no rhythm. I just do step-and-snap. I love it in the privacy of my own home and every once in a while at a club. But singing and dancing are my two greatest fears.

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  Home, Greatest Fear, Two

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• It was hard. I came to grips with a lot of difficulties that I've overcome. Each challenge kind of makes you who you are. It wasn't always a good thing. I have my own struggles in my life because of the things I was forced to overcome.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person.

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  Book, Butterfly, Social

  "Hope Solo Goes Hollywood and I'm Here to Grill Her". Interview with Ken Baker, www.eonline.com. August 5, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Writing, Ipods, Groups

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• Female athletes are supposed to be toned down. You're always supposed to talk about the team and never stand out.

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  Team, Athlete, Female

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• I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer.

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  Soccer, Focus, Want

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