Brandi Chastain Quotes

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• Never assume greatness is for someone else. Imagine every day that you too can do great things. Have the courage to take the challenge, make the mistakes, and move forward.

  Brandi Chastain

  Mistake, Moving, Greatness

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• You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.

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  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.

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  Motivational, Athlete, Kids

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• You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things.

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  Hard Work, Thinking, Practice

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• You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement.

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  Sports, Fun, Thrill

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• After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.

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  Soccer, Sports, Believe

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• To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

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  Soccer, Sports, Sacrifice

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• And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself.

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  Push Yourself, Willing

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• Conversation is good - you might not agree with everyone, but at least it gives you a chance to contemplate someone else's ideas.

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  Ideas, Giving, Might

  "Brandi Chastain talks about LeBron dustup". Interview with Dan Fleschner, www.today.com. March 27, 2008.

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• Soccer has given me a place to express myself, fully and openly. To not be shy. To feel. To be crazy. To try things I might not try. To be honest in relationships. To make mistakes and realize that they're not life-shattering.

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  Soccer, Mistake, Crazy

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• I cannot keep myself away from ice cream. I have two flavors that are my favorite: chocolate chip cookie dough and vanilla swiss almond. I can eat a whole pint of ice cream in one sitting, no problem!

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  Ice, Two, Chocolate

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• I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.

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  Soccer, Football, Thinking

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• Well there are two things: Number one is, make sure you always enjoy yourself, because when you enjoy yourself, you'll learn, you'll want more information, you'll push yourself.

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  Sports, Numbers, Two

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• I'm loving motherhood. It's way harder than soccer, but I love a challenge.

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  Soccer, Motherhood, Challenges

  "Brandi Chastain talks about LeBron dustup". Interview with Dan Fleschner, www.today.com. March 27, 2008.

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• What I've really learned is to be open to listen to other people's opinions and then question my own thoughts. And learn how to talk to people. The biggest gift from having one of these moments is that it gets people talking.

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  Talking, People, Opinion

  "Brandi Chastain talks about LeBron dustup". Interview with Dan Fleschner, www.today.com. March 27, 2008.

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• I think Id like to be able to heal peoples pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.

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  Pain, Loneliness, Thinking

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• I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch.

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  Soccer, Sports, Kids

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• The "r" word [racism] is a scary word to me - I don't like to say it. I'm not trying to say it doesn't exist. It's incredibly inflammatory and invites a lot of awful mistakes and injustices that have happened and still do happen. It's a word that has been thrown around in a way that incites a lot of bad feelings in most people.

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  Mistake, Racism, People

  "Brandi Chastain talks about LeBron dustup". Interview with Dan Fleschner, www.today.com. March 27, 2008.

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• I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me.

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  Soccer, Sports, Wall

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• So along with that is spending a lot of time with the ball. For me it was, I loved to juggle the ball in my front yard, and I always challenged myself - how many juggles can I get today? I think for players to get better, it's just about spending the time.

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  Sports, Player, Thinking

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• Women can be incredible role models for their kids, neighbors and communities just by making good choices in terms of what they're eating and whether they're exercising.

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  Kids, Exercise, Role Models

  "How She Does It: Brandi Chastain and Mia Hamm". Interview with Abigail L. Cuffey, www.womansday.com. August 25, 2009.

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• So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me.

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  Opportunity, Doing Me, Shapes

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• You're just trying to be yourself, and for me, playing soccer is being myself. One day, you're one person on a team. The next thing people are asking your opinion about things you're not an expert on. Because they recognize you, they think you must know something about something - which isn't necessarily the case.

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  Soccer, Being Yourself, Team

  "Brandi Chastain talks about LeBron dustup". Interview with Dan Fleschner, www.today.com. March 27, 2008.

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• My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.

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  Soccer, Mom, Travel

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• I love soccer; I want to be on the field.

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  Soccer, Want, Fields

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