Famous Quotes

"I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match."

Mia Hamm on Sports

More quotes about Sports

• "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

  Michael Jordan on Sports

• "It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "Golf is a good walk spoiled."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

  Hunter S. Thompson on Sports

• "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

  Henry David Thoreau on Sports

More quotes by Mia Hamm

• "I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible."

• "I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible."

• "Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it."

• "Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it."

• "I hope all you young girls see yourself up there... we were just like you."