Mia Hamm
1972
5
Quotes
Biography
Mia Hamm is a retired American soccer player who is widely considered one of the greatest female athletes of all time. Born in 1972, Hamm started playing soccer at a young age and went on to have an illustrious career. She played for the U.S. women's national soccer team for 17 years and won two Olympic gold medals and two Women's World Cup titles. Hamm's skill, speed, and goal-scoring ability made her a standout in the sport, and she inspired a generation of young girls to pursue soccer. After retiring from professional soccer, she has been involved in various charitable and advocacy work.
Famous Quotes (5)
1
Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.
2
True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.
3
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.
4
The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching.
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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.