Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back … play for her.

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"True champions aren’t always the ones that win, but those with the most guts."

- Mia Hamm

Courage

"You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it’s worth it if you score a spectacular goal."

- Mia Hamm

Courage

"If a team wants to intimidate you physically and you let them, they’ve won."

- Mia Hamm

Courage

"True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts."

- Mia Hamm

Courage

"Play your heart out, every single time"

- Mia Hamm

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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

- Leonardo DaVinci

Inspiration

"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."

- Socrates

Inspiration

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."

- Wilbur Wright

Inspiration

"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."

- Charles A. Lindbergh

Inspiration

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Inspiration