“First of all, I’m not outspoken,” she said before her team’s first send-off game against Japan. “Say what you want about the tweets, say what you want about ‘opinionated.’ I would tell you right now: People don’t know me. They don’t know where I came from, they make their judgments off some stupid social media thing, and I’ll take my critics for what [they are]. Nobody really knows who I am, where I came from, what’s in my heart, why I believe in the things I believe, what I see behind the scenes and they don’t see. Unfortunately, people think I’m negative and bitter all the time, and that’s not the case. It’s all about perspective,” Solo added.”

Hope Solo (interview in 2011)