Michelle Akers

"When I began playing, I didn't even think about a Women's World Cup," she said in a November 1991 article in the Orlando Sentinel. "When I watched Pele play in World Cup, I never dreamed that someday the women would be playing for a world championship. Now my horizons have widened.
"I want to win World Cup, and I want to play in the Olympics, and that dream, I believe, now has a chance."