Quotes by Jessica Mcdonald - Page 1

I was born and raised in Phoenix.
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Phoenix
Raised
Born I Was Born Raised
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Sometimes women's soccer can be political.
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Soccer
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Everyone has their opinions about the Bible and God.
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Opinions
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It's exciting to play against old teammates, old friends.
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Friends
Old Friends
Against
Teammates
Old
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It's just an amazing feeling to walk barefooted in some nice grass.
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Grass
Amazing Feeling
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I need to keep my focus as an individual and keep supporting my team.
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Supporting
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What I am working hardest for is for my kid, for a better future for him.
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Better Future
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You're always supposed to follow-up any cross or whatever towards the goalkeeper.
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Follow Up
Cross
Goalkeeper
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Just getting paid for six months out of the year is unacceptable in any kind of job.
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Paid
Six
Unacceptable
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My grandmother - my inspiration - was a single mom with nine kids, and she helped raise me.
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Inspiration
Nine
Single
Single Mom
Mom Me She
Helped
Raise
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I'm trying to take care of my kid, and the only way to do that is obviously being financially stable.
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Stable
Financially
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Being able to go home to my kid is such a relief because he's such a happy kid. He balances my life out in such a good way.
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Good Way
Relief
Life Good Home
Balances
Go Home
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I became a starter in Portland, and then I lost my spot, but for what reason? It wasn't explained to me. I thought it was unfair.
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Portland
Explained
Spot
Starter
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You name the sport, I've played it. I was quarterback for a football team one year, played volleyball, played softball - you name it.
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Volleyball
Football Team
Quarterback
Softball
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My parents gave up on their dreams in sports because they were athletes, and they had me at such an early age. I didn't want to do that.
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Athletes
Early Age
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I was one of those players that had to come in and prove that I can belong on this field with these girls, and I can hang in this league as well.
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Belong
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For me as a mom, not an allocated player, there have been some years that have been a difficult journey because NWSL doesn't really support mothers.
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Journey
Allocated
Mothers
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In high school and college, I always, always straightened my hair. Don't ask why; I was just so into my image. Post-college, I started wearing my hair natural.
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High School
Wearing
High School And College
Straightened
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There were days when I would just go home and cry because it was that hard, but I didn't want to give up just because things got hard, just because I was a mom.
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Cry
Go Home
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I'm not just working for myself anymore. I'm working for my kid as well, someone who's actually looking up to me on a whole other level than the younger generation.
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Younger Generation
Myself Me Looking
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Being here in Houston, I have a lot more weight on my shoulders than I did in Portland. I feel a lot more appreciated because I am starting now, and I'm scoring goals.
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Appreciated
Houston
Portland
Scoring
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I need to just give - everything that I do, every single day - my all. I just need to. Life is short. We have one life to live. And I need to be able to push for my kid.
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Life Is Short
Life Day Live
Short
Every Single Day
Push
Single Day
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It was definitely a big boost when I went into Australia. That's what really got my recognition going. I started scoring. I started feeling a little bit better each game.
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Boost
Recognition
Scoring
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Both of my parents were both multi-sport athletes. Their mindset was, be an athlete as long as possible, up until they became parents. And so they dropped their dreams for their children.
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Athlete
Mindset
Dropped
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Sometimes I wear makeup while I play - I did it during the World Cup because the cameras were always on us, but for club, not so much. If I'm wearing it on the field, I try not to apply too much.
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Cameras
Makeup
World Cup
Apply
Club
Cup
Wearing
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Being able to inspire my kid with what I'm doing now, it's going to help him succeed in the future, and that's one of my main goals here - is to try and succeed on the field, and succeed as a mother.
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Inspire
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That's what pushes me every day to want to be successful on the soccer field - being able to not only take care of my kid on a financial level and be stable but, most importantly, to inspire my child.
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Inspire
Soccer
Stable
Importantly
Me Day Care
Pushes
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My journey has been up and down a little bit. Everything that has to do with success for me has sort of become a shock to me. You work so hard, you work so hard, and it happens; you're like, 'What? Wait, it's happening to me?'
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My Journey
Shock
Up And Down
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I know all the girls; we all have something to play for, we all have this goal, and we're all on the same page as to what we want at the end of the day. But as for me, I have something a little bit more to play for, and that's my kid.
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End Of The Day Me Day
Same Page
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If anything as simple as child care was covered by the league or your organization, that would be life-changing for moms, especially when we're scraping pennies. Maybe we would have more moms in this league if something like that was there for us, but I feel like we're far from that.
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Child Care
Covered
League
Life Changing
Organization
Pennies
Scraping
Moms
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Obviously this is something huge, just to be playing on the world stage and repping all the parents out there - not just the parents, but obviously all of the African American girls who feel as if they don't have much to rely to make your dreams come true, whatever the circumstances may be.
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Rely
Your Dreams
World Stage
Dreams World Your Dreams
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I've had so many parents DM me on social media thanking me because I simply have dreadlocks, because their daughters wear dreadlocks and play with dreadlocks, and I'm like, 'Well why not? Let's do it.' It's really cool to be able to inspire the younger generation of kids of color that look like us.
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Inspire
Why Not
Younger Generation
Thanking
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There hasn't been any positive steps for moms in the NWSL. Now we're kind of getting our heads together, getting ideas together, and so now we can start somewhere as moms... Child care is not cheap. And if you look at our paychecks and you look at child care, there goes our paycheck. How are we going to eat?
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Child Care
Steps
Cheap
Heads
Moms
Paycheck
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I haven't had any injuries since I've had my kid, so I think it's changed my body externally and internally. I don't know what it is, but I hadn't felt so great, body-wise, until I had my kid. I look more in shape, and I feel more in shape. And speaking from a confidence side, it's changed me in such a positive way.
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Confidence
Injuries
Positive Way
Shape
Speaking
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