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One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say.

Hope Solo

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Hope Solo
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: July 30
Association Football Player
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Soccer Player
Richland
Washington
Hope Amelia Solo
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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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My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love.
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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.
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I never go on Facebook! I like, haven't confirmed anybody to be my friend on Facebook. I have lots of friends I'm just really bad at Facebook.
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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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When I did 'Dancing With the Stars,' everyone in Hollywood was saying I had too much muscle.
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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.
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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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It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.
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I've had marriage proposals, invitations to military balls and even a few prom offers from 18-year-old boys.
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True heros are made of hard work and integrity.
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I've always been a fan of Justin Timberlake.
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Unfortunately, people think I'm negative and bitter all the time, and that's not the case.
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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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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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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.
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