Carli Lloyd Did It Her Way
It’s the “outwork everyone” mentality that’s made Lloyd a legend on a team of legends like Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain, Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan, and Megan Rapinoe, who have all also become activists in their own right in the fight for women’s equality. Lloyd was first and foremost always there to work, developing a reputation as the kind of player who never compromised, addicted to the grind no matter the cost. She sacrificed time, her body, and relationships. “I never skipped a step. I never took a shortcut. I chipped away little by little every single day and built myself into the best possible machine I could build,” she says. She thrived with an “industrial-sized” chip on her shoulder. She was, as they say, not here to make friends.
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