Hope Solo's Quotes

I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic. Look at all the teams in America that have folded, and the leagues.

I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.

In front of the world, all of a sudden I'm a great athlete and I'm put into an environment with 25 other women and I'm expected to go to team meals, team functions.

I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!

People who are different are constantly dealing with families who don't understand them.

I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.

I'm attached to my children with whatever flaws they have, and if some glorious angel broke through the living room ceiling and offered to exchange them for other, better children, I'd cling to my kids and pray away this specter.

Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.

My dog can bark like a congressman, fetch like an aide, beg like a press secretary and play dead like a receptionist when the phone rings.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.