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Megan Anna Rapinoe is an American professional soccer player named Reign FC’s captain in the National Women’s Soccer League. She is also on the United States women’s national soccer team, playing as a winger.
She received the prestigious Sports Illustrated 2019 Sportsperson of the Year award got all that she accomplished and stood up for.
Best Megan Rapinoe Quotes
1.) Sometimes it’s worth risking it all for a dream only you can see.
2.) While we do not get to choose what we see or what happens around us, and sometimes to us and others, we do get to choose how we bear witness to it.
3.) It’s OK to feel different right now. You are supposed to be feeling weird a lot of the time. You have a lot going on. And you are supposed to feel uncomfortable and awkward because it’s a good thing, and it helps you grow.
4.) Hang on to your friends, and be prepared to make new ones.
5. And life will throw you some curveballs. Failure will happen, and how you handle it will help shape you into the person you are going to become.
6.) Over the years, I have really figured out what works for me. It’s not about what anyone else is doing. I can’t worry about whether I am doing everything that another player is doing, which can be hard sometimes. I have to trust my training and know my body, and figure out what will get the best out of me.
7.) I was made exactly the way I was meant to be made in who I am, and my personality, and the way I was born.
On Life
8.) I need to feel like I have that freedom to make mistakes and to just try things.
9.) When we, as a nation, put our minds to something, when we truly choose to care about something, change always happens.
10.) We’re gracious, and we’re humble, and we play the game a certain way, whether we win or lose.
11. I feel like it’s actually everybody’s responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you’re an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it’s everybody’s responsibility.
12.) This is my charge to everyone: We have to be better. We have to love more. Hate less. We got to listen more and talk less.
13.) Putting yourself out there is hard, but it’s so worth it. I don’t think anyone who has ever spoken out or stood up or had a brave moment has regretted it. It’s empowering and confidence-building and inspiring not only to other people but to yourself.
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Inspirational Sayings
14.) Be honest about how you approach failure. Don’t just be critical of yourself because that can be self-serving. Approach it honestly, assess your performance, and assess the areas where you have fallen short. Correct them and move on. Don’t dwell on it. Don’t hold on to it.
15.) This is my charge to everybody, Do what you can. Do what you have to do—step outside of yourself. Be more. Be better. And, be bigger than you’ve ever been before.
16.) Growing up, I was never the best athlete or the fastest or the strongest—so I had to affect the game in a different way. Even if you’re extremely athletic and fast, if you’re doing the same thing over and over, the defense is going to figure it out. Really, it’s all about playing cat-and-mouse with the defender, so I try to change it up… and put myself in a position where I have options.
17.) You deserve the space that you can take up. And you can take up as much space as you need.
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On Speaking Out
18.) As I’ve grown older, I’ve really got to understand how powerful one voice can be, my voice can be, or the team’s voice can be. So to hold that back or not to use that just seems selfish in a way.
19.) Being a woman, we talk about equal pay all the time. We’re not talking about if you’re black or if you are Latina. I would like to get back to that and improving the relationship between the police community and the community of color. I don’t know exactly all the right things to say, but I want to engage in that conversation.
20.) [It’s about] so much more than the money. It’s really more about the investment in the game. Is the investment equal? We’re talking marketing dollars and branding, investment in the youth, investment in the players, investment in the coaching staff. I don’t think that that’s there. I don’t think that that’s ever been there.
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FAQs About Megan Rapinoe
Here are some frequently asked questions about Megan Rapinoe.
Megan Rapinoe is 36 years old. She was born July 5, 1985, in Redding, California.
Megan Rapinoe stands 5 feet 6 inches tall (1.68 meters). Her hair color is blonde, and her eyes are brown.
Megan Rapinoe’s estimated net worth is over 3 million dollars. She has amassed most of her wealth through playing soccer and endorsements.
Family
Megan Rapinoe’s mother’s name is Denise Rapinoe, and Jim Rapinoe is her father. Brian Rapinoe and Michael are her brothers, and Rachael Rapinoe is her twin sister. Another one of her sisters is Jenny. She has two other siblings, and in total, they are seven, two from Denise’s older marriage and five from the marriage with Jim Rapinoe.
Megan previously had been in a relationship with the retired Australian soccer player Sarah Walsh. She currently is with Suzanne Brigit Bird. She is an American professional basketball player for the Seattle Storm of the Women’s National Basketball Association. Megan doesn’t have any children yet.
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Early Life
Rapinoe grew up in Redding, California, with her guardians, Jim and Denise, and five kin, counting her intimate twin, Rachael Rapinoe. Denise and Jim raised seven children mutually, not all their own.
Denise has a boy and girl, Michael, and Jenny, from a former marriage; then came older brother Brian and the twins five years afterward. Jim and her granddad, Jack both, served in the Armed force. She has Italian (from her paternal granddad) and Irish parentage. Megan admired her older brother Brian and began playing soccer at age three after observing him play the sport. Still, he started utilizing drugs when the girls were in second grade. When she was ten and Brian was fifteen, he was put in juvenile detainment.
He was in and out of different jails, counting the super-max Pelican Bay State Prison. Brian has since made a determined exertion to avoid drugs after seeing his younger sister’s victory in worldwide soccer and not being present with his family. For Rachael and Megan, soccer was a way to keep away from the popular drug misuse in their area.
Activism
Rapinoe has been committed to the women’s team’s equal pay criticism to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission since at least 2016. In March 2019, she, together with 27 of her US Women’s soccer partners, filed a lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation, charging it with sex segregation. The battle for equal pay received good coverage in the media.
Rapinoe has done charitable work for the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. In 2013, she became a minister for Athlete Ally, a philanthropic organization that centers on finishing homophobia and transphobia in sports.
In September 2017, Rapinoe and US partner Alex Morgan were part of a group of soccer players who marked up for the “Common Goal” campaign made by Juan Mata of Manchester United. As members of the campaign, players donate one percent of their compensation to other soccer-related charities. Rapinoe and Morgan were the first two female players to join the campaign.
By Jill Olson
Jill is a sportswriter based in the Twin Cities who loves soccer.
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