A biography for Abby Wambachhasn’t been written yet.
“I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.”
“Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.”
“From a pretty early age, my mother realized that I was a little bit more gifted and talented than my own age group. So, she moved me over to play with the boys' travel soccer team when I was about 11 years old.”
“I have a unique ability to predict the flight of the ball, and my teammates have a unique ability to find me.”
“To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.”
“People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.”
“My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.”
“Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.”
“I think that in order to get better as an athlete and to see whatever kind of results you're after, you have to make goals. Whether you write them down or tell someone about them, it's important to set goals for yourself in order to achieve any kind of success.”
“Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.”
“I'll be honest. After I got married, I definitely had a shift in emotional devotion.”
“I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.”
“Winning, you can overlook so many things.”
“My go-to karaoke? 'Alone' by Celine Dion.”
“The minute you step off that podium is the minute you start preparing for the next world championship. That's kind of how I work. You celebrate for a brief moment, then you move on.”
“During events like the World Cup and the Olympics, I tend to get really wrapped up in my own experience to stay focused, but it's like a bubble. I don't see much outside my own perspective.”
“This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don't know, but when I'm not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness, in a lot of ways, when I'm not playing.”
“I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.”
“I haven't won a World Cup. There's things that haven't been finished, and I'm not afraid to fall flat on my face trying.”
“I'm fiercely patriotic, and the flag and the anthem is something that I really, really respect.”