Of course Seattle loves soccer. You can see from the men's Seattle Sounders team. Hope Solo More Quotes by Hope Solo More Quotes From Hope Solo As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn't matter what your interests are. People can have their own lives. Hope Solo athlete player people Speech is the image of actions Hope Solo speech action Growing up, I felt insecure about my build. I didn't feel very feminine. But as time went on, I learned to completely embrace my body. Hope Solo insecure growing-up body My entire purpose is trying to be the best in the game, and if that exudes beauty too, that's pretty powerful. Hope Solo powerful games trying I am pushed by my critics. I don't want to say I want to prove them wrong, but it pushes me on the field to play with a chip on my shoulder, and I play best when I have a chip on my shoulder. Hope Solo fields want play With each year that's gone by, and as I grow up and get older, I've become more mature, of course, but you have a sense of who you are, and you find confidence in that. Hope Solo growing-up gone years When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football. Hope Solo support real football I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time. Hope Solo want book rooms People didn't put pressure on me. I just played for the love of the game. Hope Solo pressure games people Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves. Hope Solo nerves athlete way My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. Hope Solo my-brother brother father Athletes are extremists. When they're training, it's laser focus. Hope Solo training focus athlete 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. Hope Solo next broken promise 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. Hope Solo meals team athlete 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. Hope Solo who-we-are struggle reality I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest. Hope Solo live-life people thinking My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. He just, he had a rough life. You know, he grew up in a boys home in the Bronx. He didn't really know his own family. So I couldn't hold it against him that he didn't know how to parent. He didn't know how to be the perfect husband. But he loved as much as he could. Hope Solo husband brother father I put all of my energy into building the game and giving women opportunities and, to put everything into it and then to be deemed selfish or not a good team player or outspoken, it's been hard. But at the same time, I'm going to get the critics and I know that. Hope Solo selfish team opportunity I love pedicures. And, yes, I have a ton of shoes. Hope Solo pedicures shoes I played in Europe and it was a great experience, not just because of my team-mates and the coaches we had, but from the fans and the city itself - I played in Gothenburg and I played in Lyon and soccer was everywhere. Hope Solo team europe soccer
