Foudy Quotes & Sayings

Her right hand held a bottle of Pepsi that she'd clogged with peanuts and called a late lunch. — Daniel Woodrell

I hope things get better, but it's a difficult process,' Foudy said. 'You're dealing with governments that don't care about children working. And it's hard to put our Western ideals on their situations. If you don't pay people enough so they can survive with only the father or mother working, how can they expect the kids not to work? — Jere Longman

I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm who made me realize that there was room in the world of sports for women. They ignited my dream of becoming an Olympic athlete. — Jennie Finch

Information about time cannot be imparted in a straightforward way. Like furniture, it has to be tipped and tilted to get it through the door. If the past is a solid oak buffet whose legs must be unscrewed and whose drawers must be removed before, in an altered state, it can be upended into the entryway of our minds, then the future is a king-size waterbed that hardly stands a chance, especially if it needs to be brought up in an elevator.
Those billions who persist in perceiving time as the pursuit of the future are continually buying waterbeds that will never make it beyond the front porch or the lobby. And if man's mission is to reside in the fullness of the present, then he's got no space for the waterbed, anyhow, not even if he could lower it through a skylight. — Tom Robbins

My teammates are the ultimate motivation. They mean everything to me. They are the reason I want to be at my best. — Julie Foudy

Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others. — Confucius

I've done films about games. What I like with games is that there is this uncertain outcome and the element of chance. — Jorgen Leth

Soccer was invented by man but perfected by women. — Julie Foudy

Athletics brings out a side of you that is wonderful. It brings out so many good attributes like competing, intensity and playing at the highest level. — Julie Foudy

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom. — Robert A. Heinlein

When people tell you, "No," just smile and tell them, "Yes, I can." — Julie Foudy

I don't care how talented a team is, unless you believe in one another, you're weak. — Julie Foudy

His eyes searched hers. I'd rather just be me. Feel comfortable in my own skin and be able to speak my mind without having to carry a damned thesaurus. Sure doesn't seem worth giving up who you are to please others. Far as I'm concerned, they either like me or they don't. Their choice. — Leah Braemel

We don't wear cups. We win them! — Julie Foudy

We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason. — Robert Kennedy

You develop a bond that comes from spending too much time together. — Julie Foudy

Tomboy. Alright, call me a tomboy. Tomboys get medals. Tomboys win championships. Tomboys can fly. Oh. And tomboys aren't boys. — Julie Foudy

To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human. — Willie D

For a lot of young girls, the media frenzy and the social media challenges becomes so overwhelming that maybe they don't go to inner beauty or inner strengthIf you don't have a positive roll model in your life then it's about finding people around you that can be that message bearer. — Julie Foudy

No," I told him. "You tell me what I want. That's what I want. — Laurelin Paige

The night below. We two. Crystal of pain.
You wept over great distances.
My ache was a clutch of agonies
over your sickly heart of sand. — Federico Garcia Lorca