"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

#Girl Quotes #Soccer Quotes #Father Quotes

“I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.”
“Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time and out of season, the hitchinker stood by the side of the road and levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason. [...] Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you? All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.”
“A friend cannot be owned That is plain to see Friendships must be shared, Just like our friend, Ruby”
“We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.”
“Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.”
“To be amazing means you have to do amazing things.”
“I'm fine," I told him tersely. "Of course you are. You're one of the strongest people I know." It took me a second to process that, because he'd said it so casually. Like he was talking about the weather or what time it was. Only Pritkin didn't say things like that. His idea of a compliment was a nod and to tell me to do whatever it was I'd just done over again. Like that was usually possible. But that had sounded suspiciously like a compliment to me.”
“Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too”

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