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I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal. ↗

— Hope Solo

#day #end #end of the day #everything #gold

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

#environment #expected #front #functions #go

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008. ↗

— Hope Solo

#day #every #every single day #foot #front

London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal. ↗

— Hope Solo

#any #gold #gold medal #just #london

My confidence comes from the daily grind - training my butt off day in and day out. ↗

— Hope Solo

#confidence #daily #day #grind #off

My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. ↗

— Hope Solo

#father #love #me #much #showed

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach. ↗

— Hope Solo

#around #coach #daddy #father #first

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

#come #cups #female #football #olympics

My dog can bark like a congressman, fetch like an aide, beg like a press secretary and play dead like a receptionist when the phone rings. ↗

— Gerald B. H. Solomon

#bark #beg #congressman #dead #dog

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. ↗

— King Solomon

#friend #iron #sharpens