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Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

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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I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.
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I played soccer because my friends did. Besides we got sodas afterwards.
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I know I wouldn't be here, and all of us wouldn't be here, without certain sacrifices and certain stands that people have made -- not just women, but men stepping up and supporting what we do and how we do it.
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Sport taught me how to goal set, it really gave me a voice and identity.
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I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
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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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I'm not someone who goes around the locker room before a game trying to motivate my teammates. I don't say a lot before the game. I don't say a lot in general. It takes too much energy to do that.
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I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.
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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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I could just have chips and salsa for dinner every day.
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Experience means you did a lot of things wrong.
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People ask me, 'Would you ever want to play professional golf?' And I'm like, 'No. No, no, no, no. Just because I can hit a good shot every now and then doesn't make me a pro.'
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Good players create opportunities. The great players and the great people seize them
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Focus on what you know you can do. Know what you're capable of on any given day, and what you can count on. Do the simple things well, and then use the confidence to build up the rest of your game. Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.
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I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
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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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Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.
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There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.
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The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.
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I was given a tremendous gift in terms of athleticism. Maybe it was because I wasn't so confident in other areas.
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