I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. – Mia Hamm
I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match. – Mia Hamm
Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesnt mean they shouldnt be fun. – Mia Hamm
I make a lot of mistakes, too, and Im constantly re-evaluating how Im doing things and trying to be better every day, whether its as a mom or taking care of myself. – Mia Hamm
I quickly learned what many Sunday widows already realized — that football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbal, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time. – Arnold J. Mandell, “A Psychiatric Study of Professional Football,” 1974 [An inte