Top 100 Hamm's Quotes
#1. We have defined these characters - people always expect to see me in a pencil skirt. When they see me out of one - much like when they see Jon Hamm's hair when it isn't slick - they say, 'Wait a minute, you're all 2010!'
Christina Hendricks
#2. I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.
Mia Hamm
#3. You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.
Mia Hamm
#4. Golf is social. It brings a lot of people together.
Mia Hamm
#5. First thing she said to me once we got our food: I have one daughter. Thirteen years old. Mia. For Mia Hamm. She was born the day we won the World Cup. So, that's my daughter.
Gillian Flynn
#6. I like to turn on the TV and watch whatever's on. Nick Kroll does that a lot. He doesn't watch important shows. He'll just turn on a documentary on Mia Hamm and watch it for an hour. Whatever's on, we watch.
John Mulaney
#7. I don't like to stop. I'm a big person who looks at where the hubs are because I hate changing planes.
Mia Hamm
#8. You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.
Mia Hamm
#9. I know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.
Jessica Pare
#10. Whether it's Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated.
Jon Hamm
#11. I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down, and I will not let myself down.
Mia Hamm
#12. The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness.
Mia Hamm
#13. I don't like to play rough, but I will if I have to.
Mia Hamm
#14. If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.
Mia Hamm
#15. I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.
Jon Hamm
#16. I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.
Mia Hamm
#17. I don't have any sort of calculus in choosing film roles.
Jon Hamm
#18. I'm most excited to meet Jon Hamm at the Emmys.
Bree Turner
#19. I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.
Mia Hamm
#20. It's nice, when the lights come up at the end of the movie, to not be like, "What did I just watch?"
Jon Hamm
#21. Time moves on. You can't go back in time. Everything has a consequence, and the last episode of the last season is no exception.
Jon Hamm
#22. Focus on what you know you can do. Know what you're capable of on any given day, and what you can count on. Do the simple things well, and then use the confidence to build up the rest of your game. Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.
Mia Hamm
#23. Anson Dorrance ... left me a short, encouraging note: "The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when nobody else is watching.
Mia Hamm
#24. It's such a capricious, strange existence, basing your life on the whims of others, and basing your ebbs and flows of confidence and lack of confidence on the fact that people either choose you or don't.
Jon Hamm
#25. I played soccer because my friends did. Besides we got sodas afterwards.
Mia Hamm
#26. You're worth the investment in yourself and what you feel, you can and want to be
Mia Hamm
#27. I could just have chips and salsa for dinner every day.
Mia Hamm
#28. It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part of the deal. You're the leader on the set.
Jon Hamm
#29. When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.
Abby Wambach
#30. I think pets are great. They're better than kids, that's for sure.
Jon Hamm
#31. I did the only thing I could. I said the dumbest thing any man has ever said to a woman, "Yeah, it's just me and my trash can here," as I patted its lid and started pushing it up the driveway.
Amanda Hamm
#32. Chicken, brown rice, and veggies is a great healthy dinner option. It's full of whole grains and protein, and will keep you full for a long time.
Mia Hamm
#33. Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.
Mia Hamm
#34. I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.
Jon Hamm
#35. I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me.
Jon Hamm
#36. Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
Samuel Beckett
#37. A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.
Mia Hamm
#38. People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful white male
Jon Hamm
#39. Hamm: What's he doing?
(CLOV raises lid of NAGG's bin, stoops, looks into it. Pause.)
Clov: He's crying.
(He closes lid, straightens up)
Hamm: Then he's living.
Samuel Beckett
#40. I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just ... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.
Jon Hamm
#41. My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too
Mia Hamm
#42. True champions arent always the ones that win,but those with the most guts.
Mia Hamm
#43. Jon Hamm is such an amazing co-star. He used to set the tune of the scenes so easily, and in his free time, he didn't mind giving us cues. We picked up a lot from him.
Madhur Mittal
#44. Clov: If I don't kill the rat, he'll die.
Hamm: That's right.
Samuel Beckett
#45. It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it.
Jon Hamm
#46. Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.
Mia Hamm
#47. I don't need to be married, but I feel married.
Jon Hamm
#48. I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.
Mia Hamm
#49. Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.
Mia Hamm
#50. The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States.
Harold Hamm
#51. Angry people scared me. Angry people who thought I was in charge scared me even more.
Amanda Hamm
#52. I'm a part of a team, and I'm no better or any worse than any single player on this team. That's the approach I've always had and will continue to have. It's not about me. It has never been all about me. If it had, this would have been a really lonely journey.
Mia Hamm
#53. Every single day I wake up and commit myself to becoming a better player. Some days it happens, and some days it doesn't. Sure, there are games I'm going to dominate and there are going to be games when I struggle. But it doesn't mean I give up.
Mia Hamm
#54. Goals have never defined me as a player. What has defined me is my impact on the team. If that means passing or playing defense to win, I'll do it.
Mia Hamm
#55. I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.
Jon Hamm
#56. I make a lot of mistakes, too, and I'm constantly re-evaluating how I'm doing things and trying to be better every day, whether it's as a mom or taking care of myself.
Mia Hamm
#57. I would be absolutely honored if I made Jon Hamm crack, because he is uncrackable.
Jay R. Ferguson
#58. I hope all you young girls see yourself up there ...
We were just like you.
Mia Hamm
#59. Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.
Jon Hamm
#60. Yes, his ear. I was attracted to his ear. While I was in church. I'm pretty sure that solidifies my position as the weirdest person on the planet.
Amanda Hamm
#61. I am happy that the young girls have a lot more choices these days and an opportunity to feel better about themselves.
Mia Hamm
#62. If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.
Mia Hamm
#63. HAMM
Open the window.
CLOV
What for?
HAMM
I want to hear the sea.
CLOV
You wouldn't hear it.
HAMM Even if you opened the window?
CLOV
No.
HAMM
Then it's not worth opening it?
CLOV
No.
HAMM(violently)
Then open it!
Samuel Beckett
#64. English muffins with avocado is one of my favorite breakfasts.
Mia Hamm
#65. We play because we love the game, we love each other, and we love to win.
Mia Hamm
#66. When I was a little kid, I kind of liked the commercials more than a lot of the stuff on TV. My favorite ones were the Miller Lite ads with all the jocks in them. "Tastes great, less filling."
Jon Hamm
#67. Point me to 50 people online who think I'm super sexy. I'll point you to 50 more who say he's old and looks like my dad.
Jon Hamm
#68. I don't want to sit and look at all the trophies. I don't want to live in the past
I want to live now!
Mia Hamm
#69. Working with Jon Hamm was super-fun because he's a brilliant actor and he's very kind. I would hang around sets for scenes that I wasn't even in because I wanted to watch how he worked.
Caity Lotz
#70. After each game, I want to be able to say: I gave it all I could, I gave it my best.
Mia Hamm
#71. 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.
Mia Hamm
#72. I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.
Mia Hamm
#73. I played Winnie the Pooh in first grade. I was an early adopter of standing in front of people and looking like an idiot.
Jon Hamm
#74. People ask me, 'Would you ever want to play professional golf?' And I'm like, 'No. No, no, no, no. Just because I can hit a good shot every now and then doesn't make me a pro.'
Mia Hamm
#75. I'm painfully aware of my surroundings at all times.
Jon Hamm
#76. I cried and cried in my Mad Men dress. Jon Hamm held me by the shoulders and looked at me and said, "I know this is very sad, but this is a really important show for me, so I'm going to need you to get your shit together." This made me laugh so hard I think I peed.
Amy Poehler
#77. For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.
Jon Hamm
#78. I'm not someone who goes around the locker room before a game trying to motivate my teammates. I don't say a lot before the game. I don't say a lot in general. It takes too much energy to do that.
Mia Hamm
#79. I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable.
Jon Hamm
#80. I know I wouldn't be here, and all of us wouldn't be here, without certain sacrifices and certain stands that people have made
not just women, but men stepping up and supporting what we do and how we do it.
Mia Hamm
#81. I'm able to leave Don Draper at work. I'm quite dissimilar from him in real life.
Jon Hamm
#82. I grew up mostly in Champaign, Illinois. My dad was at the University of East Illinois, so I was always around the music. One of my dad's buddies was the avant-garde composer John Cage, so I picked up on that weird classical and eclectic music.
Stuart Hamm
#83. There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.
Mia Hamm
#84. President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.
Harold Hamm
#86. Sports are not about awards or world championships, though those are great. They're about the relationships we have with each other.
Mia Hamm
#87. Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.
Mia Hamm
#88. In the very beginning whenever Mia Hamm or Brandi Chastain would call for the ball, I'd just give it to them immediately because it was them and I was nervous.
Heather O'Reilly
#89. Part of being an adult is treating women like women.
Jon Hamm
#90. HAMM:
Scoundrel! Why did you engender me?
NAGG:
I didn't know.
HAMM:
What? What didn't you know?
NAGG:
That it'd be you.
(Pause.)
Samuel Beckett
#91. Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.
Jon Hamm
#92. I love Jon Hamm. I'm so lucky to get to work with him and work so closely with him.
Jessica Pare
#93. HAMM: We're not beginning to ... to ... mean something?
CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something!
(Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one!
Samuel Beckett
#94. Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.
Mia Hamm
#95. It doesn't occur to me that I don't drive a cool car until I hang out with Jon Hamm, who picks me up in what looks like a Transformer, and I think, 'Oh, that's what movie stars are driving. I guess I'm not a movie star.'
Bill Hader
#96. I think that we live in a moment in time where people have a lot of information about a lot of people kind of instantly, but it's all sort of surface information and it doesn't really mean anything.
Jon Hamm
#97. I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.
Mia Hamm
#99. When I was playing, they said soccer was a man's world and women should remain on the sidelines, all I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm
Pele
#100. I've been surrounded by dogs my whole life. I got a golden retriever a year after I was born.
Jon Hamm
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