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" As female athletes all over the world have discovered the hard way, changing cultures and mindsets takes action. "
Cultures
Action
Hard
" Ask any coach in any sport, and they'll tell you that cutting players is their least favorite thing to do. No coach enjoys having to tell players who have worked so hard and for so long on a dream that they are no longer on the team. "
Team
Long
Hard
" Do your homework. Find your voice. Be authentic. And then dive in with purpose. "
Purpose
Homework
Dive
" For the average person walking down the street, they don't even know a women's soccer league exists in this country. "
Walking
Street
Women
" For too long, I equated leadership with a position. I thought leaders were presidents or politicians or celebrities or four-star generals with a horse and sword. "
Thought
Horse
Leadership
" Girls are so quick to say they can't do something, and they won't even try, whereas boys tend to just go for something even if it's probably a bad idea. "
Go
Just
Quick
" Having a love-hate relationship with road trips is inevitable. "
Road
Trips
Inevitable
" I always thought it would be so much fun to write a book. "
Much
Write
Thought
" I am all about big breakfasts - I love carby stuff in the morning. "
Big
Love
Morning
" I believe it's our responsibility to show our communities the value of all people, to celebrate different, and to take a stand for acceptance and inclusion. "
Acceptance
Value
Responsibility
" I'd always thought leadership was a CEO or president or person in a position of power. And honestly, to me, that meant a man - because that's what I was reading about in history books growing up. "
Man
Power
History
" I don't know if there's any sport that's stupid, but I really don't understand curling. I guess I'm just not into brooms on ice. "
Ice
Any
Just
" If there is one certainty in soccer, it is this: The quickest road to becoming a winning soccer team is to have a great goalkeeper. "
Great
Road
Winning
" If you don't think a small act can make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room. "
Think
Small
Sleep
" I grew up watching the Lakers and the Dodgers and the Rams, all local men's professional teams, and never really had any women that I grew up watching. "
Up
Professional
Women
" I have been involved with U.S. Soccer for 30 years, and I don't remember one senior woman in the organization that you would deal with on a daily basis in a position that was making decisions. That is a huge issue. How many times do you hear, 'There are no women around?' Well, they are fishing in the wrong pond. "
Fishing
Decisions
Daily
" I have non-breaking news for you: FIFA does not care what you think. Over the years, FIFA has never seemed influenced by what is written or said in papers, articles, tweets, blogs, and on television about how it operates. "
Said
Care
You
" I have these vivid - some fabulous, some not so fabulous - childhood memories of driving to Lake Tahoe. "
Driving
Memories
Lake
" Imagine the day when girls everywhere won't have to fight for the right to be recognized for their great work or their contributions to society. "
Fight
Society
Right
" In countries or places where an appropriate grass surface is not an option, then turf is indeed a great alternative. But that is only when grass does not or cannot grow. "
Grass
Only
Where
" Inequality brings a visceral reaction. We fought many years to bring others to believe in what was possible with women's soccer, in this country and globally. Now that the possible is being realized in this country, the American women should be compensated accordingly. "
American
Women
Soccer
" In so many ways, my soccer career taught me about seeing the value of all people, whether or not society sees it first. Relationships with people who are perceived to be 'different' have taught me the same lesson. "
Soccer
Society
Value
" In the end, we all seek one thing in life, regardless of gender: to be recognized for the hard work we have done and to leave our sport or business or entity in a better place than when we came in. "
Business
Hard Work
Work
" I once thought about being a doctor, but then I'd have to work for a living. "
Work
Once
Doctor
" I remember the day I met Cammi Granato, a former star on the U.S. women's hockey team. We were at a Women's Sports Foundation dinner in 1996, and she came over to introduce herself. She had watched the U.S. women's soccer team win gold at the Atlanta Olympics and was hopeful the U.S. women's hockey team could do the same. "
Day
Hockey
Dinner
" I remember the first time I played on a synthetic turf field. I thought, 'Wow, this is amazing. What is this stuff?' It seemed so much better than that concrete-like Astro Turf that was essentially just a green, thin carpet over hard ground. "
Amazing
Time
Green
" It all comes down to perspective. When I get crabby about something, like the delay that was driving me crazy because I told my kids I'd be home for dinner, I have to remind myself where it fits in the scheme of things. We have to say, 'That's life,' which can sometimes be comforting. "
Perspective
Life
Myself
" I think that was one of my biggest worries. I didn't want to be so focused on soccer that it became my whole life. "
Soccer
Think
Want
" It is so easy to be pleasant and charming and positive when life is going swimmingly well. You are winning. You are healthy. You are happy. But what happens when life throws darts at you? "
Winning
Happy
Life
" I tried Zumba, but I laughed the entire time! I was so bad, it's embarrassing. "
Time
I Tried
Bad
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