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Homophobia in male sports is much stronger than in women's sports; the locker room environment is a lot different. It's going to be much more of a brave step, an earthshaking move, for a gay male athlete to come out.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Athlete
Environment
Locker Room
Stronger
Male
Locker
Step
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One of the U.S. Soccer Federation's points is that it's an honour and a privilege to to play for this country, and it is. But we also represent the entire country, and the idea of liberty and justice isn't afforded to everyone.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Federation
Honour
Liberty
Privilege
Soccer
Afforded
Represent
Entire
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It's frustrating sometimes: as an athlete, you're thrust into the spotlight, and you know, I think this team has always done a really amazing job of understanding that we have this incredible platform; let's do something good with it.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Amazing
Athlete
Frustrating
Spotlight
Team
Thrust
Understanding
Good Done Always
Job
Platform
Something Good
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Honestly, I feel like we are a walking protest. The fact that we're women professional athletes says that in and of itself. We've been feeling the inequality; we've been struggling with pay equality or whatever it is, or sexism in sports.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Equality
Women
Sports
Honestly
Inequality
Pay
Protest
Sexism
Walking
Feel
Athletes
Been
Itself
Whatever
Fact
Professional
Professional Athletes
Says
Struggling
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With the national team, we have these fans, people love of us, people come up to us in our cities, and they're like, 'We love you - what are you doing in Seattle?' And I'm like, 'I live here, and I've played here for the last five years.'
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Cities
Love You
National Team
Seattle
Love People Fans
Love Live People
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I just think gay men are looked at much less favorably than gay women. If you look at the overall stereotype, lesbians are sexy, and gay men are disgusting. Girl and girl is fine, and guy and guy seems to just be something completely different.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Disgusting
Fine
Seems
Stereotype
Men Women Sexy
Women Men Sexy
Just Be
Lesbians
Looked
Overall
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Even before I came out, looking at me, I've probably looked a little gay. I had short hair, and, you know, it wasn't a huge surprise to people. But some athletes have this image to uphold and may feel like sponsors won't want them if they're gay.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Huge
Short Hair
Sponsors
Surprise
Athletes
Came
Short
Image
Looked
Uphold
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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.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Inspiring
Brave
Empowering
Hard
Worth It
Yourself
Had
Anyone
Ever
Moment
Other
Putting
Regretted
Spoken
Stood
Worth
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Being a winger or a wide mid, I have to run continuously for 90 minutes, which not only takes endurance but also strength in my legs to be able to be explosive for 90 minutes. I think weight training has really allowed me to sustain for those 90 minutes.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Endurance
Legs
Minutes
Training
Weight
Wide
Strength Me Training
Allowed
Run
Continuously
Explosive
Mid
Sustain
Takes
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Everyone who has a pair of eyes in this country understands the racial tensions and the issues we have are very serious and they're not going away. Just because we had Barack Obama as our president and, on paper, everything looks equal, it's very clearly not.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Barack
Country
Equal
Going Away
Looks
President
Serious
Had
Obama
Everyone
Away
Barack Obama
Clearly
Eyes
Pair
Racial
Tensions
Understands
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I think it's very difficult, and people don't give enough credit to how hard it is to do in-game commentary. I'd have a lot of work to do, but I'd definitely be interested. I'm always interested in breaking down the game, and I'd love to see more females doing it.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Commentary
Credit
Love Work Always
Love Work Game
Love Work Enough
Breaking
Females
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When I take a knee, I am facing the flag with my full body, staring straight into the heart of our country's ultimate symbol of freedom - because I believe it is my responsibility, just as it is yours, to ensure that freedom is afforded to everyone in this country.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Ultimate
Afforded
Ensure
Facing
Flag
Symbol
Yours
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Maybe you are homophobic a little bit, but then you see me, and you've always loved me, and you love the way I play, and your kids love me. And then you're like, 'Oh, that's OK. It's fine.' Once it gets a little bit more personal, it helps break down those barriers.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Barriers
Break
Fine
Little Bit
Love Always Your
Love Me Way
Love Me
Oh
Love Me Your
Gets
Helps
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You have someone like Colin or many of the other athletes who have knelt, especially athletes of colour, and if you're not respecting what they're saying, if you're not believing their charges of police brutality or racial inequality, you're saying that they're lying.
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Colour
Inequality
Lying
Athletes
Believing
Charges
Colin
Racial
Respecting
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A typical week of training leading up to a major championship is like the sprinkling of parsley at the end of a dish. It's just the final little touches, that last little bit of strength or fitness, but mostly you are ready and are just maintaining and staying healthy.
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Fitness
Championship
Healthy
Little Bit
Maintaining
Ready
Staying
Training
Typical
Bit
Dish
Last
Mostly
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If we want to be proud to be from a country like America and all the things that we hang our hats on, like diversity, equality, land of the free and home of the brave, it's everybody's responsibility to ensure that everyone in the country is being afforded the same rights.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Equality
Home
America
Brave
Country
Diversity
Hats
Land
Proud
Responsibility
Rights
Everybody
Afforded
Being
Free
Same
Ensure
Hang
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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.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Failure
Approach
Critical
Fallen
Honest
Self Serving
Where Yourself Your
Area
Assess
Correct
Short
Hold
Just Be
Performance
Move
Move On
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There are not many athletes who are out. And I think it's something that's important. It felt important to me. I guess it seems like a weight off my shoulders, because I've been playing a lot better than I've ever played before. I think I'm just enjoying myself, and I'm happy.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Seems
Shoulders
Weight
Myself Me Better
Athletes
Played
Myself Better Me
Enjoying
Guess
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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.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Good
Society
Activist
Athlete
Responsibility
Use
World
Everybody
Feel
Like
Good Society World
Accountant
Actually
Make
Try
Basically
Whatever
Platform
Whether
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There are plenty of sports teams that say they're very open and super accepting in the locker room. But are they really? Is it really a safe environment? Have they preset that environment to make these players feel comfortable for coming out? I don't think so because there's none out.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Sports
Accepting
Comfortable
Environment
Locker Room
Plenty
Safe
Locker
None
Super
Teams
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I'm a pretty open book, so not being out publicly felt inauthentic. Hopefully we can get to a point where your personal life isn't anybody else's business, but until then, it's less about people having to know about your sexuality than standing up for what's right and fighting for equality.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Equality
Fighting
Open Book
Personal Life
Sexuality
Standing
Publicly
Standing Up
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It's really obvious that we have very serious inequality in this country across many different spectrums. Yes, we can talk about the form of protest or the way it's done or this or that. But it's still not really the conversation that I think we desperately need to have more of in this country.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Conversation
Inequality
Obvious
Serious
Across
Desperately
Yes
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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.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Trust
Body
Player
Training
Best I Am Me
Anyone
Anyone Else
Trust Best Me
Works
Figure
Whether
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I think, in a large way, it's, 'OK, you've knelt; you've made your point.' But I don't necessarily feel like that. I don't know what that looks like. Do I kneel forever? I don't know, probably not. But I think until I can feel like I'm being more effective in other ways, then this seems appropriate to me.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Appropriate
Forever
Looks
Your Me Feel
Effective
Me Way Feel
Large
Necessarily
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I do wish, when I was younger, that I knew that I was gay. It would have made things a lot clearer for me. Really. Looking back on it, it was so obvious, but it never really dawned on me. Socially, I felt like I didn't know how to be and who to be. If I had known back then, it would have given me more self-confidence.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Looking Back
Obvious
Younger
Clearer
Dawned
Socially
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The climate is much different for men. That stigma is only going to be broken when people come out and see that there is a positive response. That doesn't mean there will be no negative response, but if people can have the courage to be one of the first, which is very hard, those barriers can be broken down very quickly.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Courage
Barriers
Broken
Negative
Response
Stigma
Quickly
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Our team, in general, is in a position where people look up to us, and kids look up to us. I embrace that, and I think I have a huge LGBT following. I think it's pretty cool, the opportunity that I have, especially in sports. There's really not that many out athletes. It's important to be out and to live my life that way.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Opportunity
Cool
Sports
Embrace
Following
Huge
Position
Team
General
Athletes
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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.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Relationship
Color
Conversation
Equal
Equal Pay
Improving
Latina
Not Talking
Pay
Talking
Engage
Exactly
Right Things
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I think it's kind of awkward when everyone knows you're gay but you don't say it. I had been thinking about coming out for almost a year before I did. I thought about it seriously on the plane ride home from the World Cup, while I was casually talking to my friend Lori Lindsey. She said, "Dude, you should just come out." She was right. Everyone in my life already knew. If you want to stand up and fight for equal rights but then won't even stand up for yourself and say "I'm gay" - that just started to feel weird.
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Home
Fighting
Gay
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I know this sounds weird, but getting hurt was one of the best things that ever happened to me. It really gave me a different perspective. Before, everything was going how it was supposed to be and I wasn't really appreciative of what I was doing and what it took to be there. The injury grounded me in a lot of different ways. The rehab process makes you stronger on all fronts, mentally and physically. I feel stronger and a better person for it. I would never wish it on anyone, but I don't wish I could take it back.
Megan Rapinoe / Soccer Player
Hurt
Perspective
Wish
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