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I am happy that the young girls have a lot more choices these days and an opportunity to feel better about themselves.

Mia Hamm

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Mia Hamm
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 17
Association Football Player
Soccer Player
Selma
Alabama
Mariel Margaret Hamm
Mariel Margaret Hamm-Garciaparra
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Happy
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Good players create opportunities. The great players and the great people seize them
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Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.
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The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.
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My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too
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I don't want to sit and look at all the trophies. I don't want to live in the past -- I want to live now!
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I could just have chips and salsa for dinner every day.
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It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.
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No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.
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If you've got hips, you can't be a gymnast or dancer. That ruled me out.
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If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.
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There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.
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I don't like to play rough, but I will if I have to.
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Success breeds success.
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I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.
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Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.
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I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.
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When players go out and train on their own, they usually do it at half speed. This kind of training is valuable, but it doesn't prepare you for competition, where you must perform at full throttle. So the trick is to schedule regular sessions of intense practice, while always leaving time to juggle and generally goof around with the ball
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