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There are no shortcuts. If you feel good, you'll look good, you'll play good. Work hard every day. No matter what your strengths and weaknesses, there's no substitute for hard work.

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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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My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.
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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.
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My life is a beautiful struggle.
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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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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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When I did 'Dancing With the Stars,' everyone in Hollywood was saying I had too much muscle.
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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's all in fun. I take everything with a grain of salt.
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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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True heros are made of hard work and integrity.
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L.A. is a bit strange. It doesn't seem like the real world.
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I have no personal beef with Brandi Chastain. There's nothing personal.
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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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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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My entire purpose is trying to be the best in the game, and if that exudes beauty too, that's pretty powerful.
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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 clear that women athletics are pretty far behind in every way. In terms of facilities, how much we make, everything.
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I never felt the same passion for the game in the States and there were a lot of headaches, a lot of obstacles to overcome - it didn't just run itself for the love of the game because soccer is not the No. 1 sport as it is in Europe.
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Being responsible and taking care of your body is truly how you make your pay cheque, how you excel and succeed in your lifelong goals, so for me it's just an everyday lifestyle.
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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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