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.
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
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.
I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.
I hope all you young girls see yourself up there... we were just like you.
I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.
It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.
It is not sacrifice if you love what you're doing.
No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.
Success breeds success.
Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.
The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.
True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.
You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.
You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.
On March 6, 1999, Mia broke the all-time goal record with her 108th goal in a game against Brazil in Orlando, Florida.
Mia wrote a book called Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide to Winning in Soccer and Life
Mia was born with a partial club-foot.
Favorite Book is "The Giving Tree," by Shel Silverstein
In 1999, Hamm began the Mia Hamm Foundation, dedicated to help with bone marrow research and to help women's sports programs progress. She was inspired to create her foundation by her adoptive brother and original athletic inspiration Garrett, an Amerasian who died of a bone marrow disease shortly after the 1996 Olympics.
She has garnered numerous awards and recognitions during her career as a soccer player. Among those, she was elected as the Soccer USA's female athlete of the year five years in a row (1994-1998), MVP of the women's cup in 1995, one of the "fifty most beautiful people in the world" by People Magazine in 1997, and number 14 among soccer's most influential people by Soccer Business International magazine. She also won three ESPY awards in a row, given to her by ESPN, one of them being for "soccer player of the year" and the other two for "female athlete of the year."
In 1993, she was a member of the U.S. women's national college team that played in the 1993 Summer Universiade and lost to China, obtaining the silver medal. She was the leading scorer with 6 goals. She graduated from college with the all-time records for her conference in goals with 103, assists with seventy-two, and total points with 278.
In March 2004, Hamm and former U.S.A. teammate Michelle Akers were the only two women, and the only two Americans, named to the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living soccer players selected by Pel? and commissioned by FIFA for that organization's 100th anniversary.
In 2001 and 2002, Mia was named FIFA (F?d?ration Internationale de Football Association) World Player of the Year.
Married Nomar Garciapara on November 22, 2003.
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