Top 80 Hope Solo Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.”

— Hope Solo

52. “I have a problem with players who don’t take the loss personally. At a professional level you should – it’s our job, it’s our livelihood, it’s who we are at this level. Every loss should be taken that personal.”

— Hope Solo

53. “I love pedicures. And, yes, I have a ton of shoes.”

— Hope Solo

54. “A lot of people think I’m naturally confident. I am not naturally confident!”

— Hope Solo

55. “I have no personal beef with Brandi Chastain. There’s nothing personal.”

— Hope Solo

56. “Female athletes are supposed to be toned down. You’re always supposed to talk about the team and never stand out.”

— Hope Solo

57. “Everybody should be affected by their own realities in their own lives, their own struggles in their own lives. It makes us who we are, and we all know that.”

— Hope Solo

58. “All my life, since the time I was little, has been a long distraction. At least that is the way some people want to perceive it, but for me, it’s given me a lot of strength.”

— Hope Solo

59. “It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.”

— Hope Solo

60. “I wear my dad’s cross. It’s very important to me. I hang it in my locker before each game.”

— Hope Solo

61. “Of course Seattle loves soccer. You can see from the men’s Seattle Sounders team.”

— Hope Solo

62. “I think every athlete has their window of opportunity, and you just have to jump on it. You never know when it can end. So I’m just trying to live large while I have the opportunity.”

— Hope Solo

63. “Being responsible and taking care of your body is truly how you make your pay cheque, how you excel and succeed in your lifelong goals, so for me it’s just an everyday lifestyle.”

— Hope Solo

64. “You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.”

— Hope Solo

65. “My No. 1 goal, and what I’ve spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I want to retire so badly with that World Cup, but if I don’t, then I’ll retire knowing that I’ve done everything I could to get it.”

— Hope Solo

66. “I usually tell people I watch like ’24 and ‘Prison Break.’”

— Hope Solo

67. “I’ve always been a fan of Justin Timberlake.”

— Hope Solo

68. “You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.”

— Hope Solo

69. “I couldn’t have been a great goalkeeper without power, agility and quickness.”

— Hope Solo

70. “I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.”

— Hope Solo

71. “I hate the cliche of ‘just have fun,’ but what I’ve seen in today’s sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids.”

— Hope Solo

72. “I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women’s football in the States is a bit idyllic.”

— Hope Solo

73. “I never felt the same passion for the game in the States and there were a lot of headaches, a lot of obstacles to overcome – it didn’t just run itself for the love of the game because soccer is not the No. 1 sport as it is in Europe.”

— Hope Solo

74. “When I did ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ everyone in Hollywood was saying I had too much muscle.”

— Hope Solo

75. “I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and family.”

— Hope Solo

76. “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.”

— Hope Solo

77. “It’s clear that women athletics are pretty far behind in every way. In terms of facilities, how much we make, everything.”

— Hope Solo

78. “I don’t just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer.”

— Hope Solo

79. “When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that’s when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.”

— Hope Solo

80. “My entire purpose is trying to be the best in the game, and if that exudes beauty too, that’s pretty powerful.”

— Hope Solo

81. “On a global stage, I have respect in the goalkeeping world.”

— Hope Solo

82. “As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn’t matter what your interests are. People can have their own lives.”

— Hope Solo

83. “London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.”

— Hope Solo