Brandi Chastain

I love soccer; I want to be on the field. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

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I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

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After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

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And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

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I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

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I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

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I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

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My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

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So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

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The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

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