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Brandi Chastain

"When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team."

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"When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team."

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A.E. Samaan

"On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?"

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A.E. Samaan

"But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here."

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A.E. Samaan

"Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students."

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A.E. Samaan

"I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College."

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A.E. Samaan

"I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't."

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A.E. Samaan

"That's when we was makin this video stuff. They went all over the place makin it. And they was wantin to know, at the college, how I got started playin and how do I do everything - you know, all that."

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A.E. Samaan

"The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment."

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A.E. Samaan

"I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers."

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A.E. Samaan

"I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college."

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A.E. Samaan

"I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job."

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Brandi Chastain
"Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together."

Opportunity

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Brandi Chastain
"The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant."

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Brandi Chastain
"I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field."

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Brandi Chastain
"I played mostly games like Asteroids and Pac-Man. Today, when I go into an arcade, the games are much more difficult and complex. I don't think I could even play some of the video games that are out there today."

Sports

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Brandi Chastain
"You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement."

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Brandi Chastain
"I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun."

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Brandi Chastain
"To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice."

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Brandi Chastain
"And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you."

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Brandi Chastain
"I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever."

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Brandi Chastain
"After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful."

Success

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