• Columnists

Joanna Lohman, Professional Soccer Player

COLUMN = SPORTS

Professional soccer player Joanna Lohman has played in the WUSA Festivals in both Minneapolis and Los Angeles in 2004, and was a member of the 2005 Freedom Reserves. She trained with USWNT during the 2004 Olympic Residency Training Camp, was a member of U21 U.S. national team from 2000-2005, captaining the squad from 2003-2004. She helped lead her U21 team to three Nordic Cup championships, earning MVP honors in 2002.

In college at Penn State, she scored 19 goals and had six assists her senior season, finishing her career at No. 5 in all-time goals scored (41), No. 2 in assists (37), No. 4 in points (114) and first with eight game-winning goals.

Among other honors, she was named Pennsylvania’s NCAA Woman of the Year in 2004, was a two-time M.A.C. Hermann Trophy finalist (2002-2003), a two-time Honda Sports Award Finalist (2002-2003), and a finalist for the Collegiate Women’s Sports Award for Women’s Soccer in 2003.

She was also a Big Ten Player of the Year in 2003, first four-time First Team All-Big Ten selection in Penn State history (2000-03), a three-time NSCAA All-American selection (2001-03), and a three-time CoSIDA Academic All-American (2001-03), one of three recipients of Penn State’s Outstanding Senior Athlete Award. She was also the Big Ten Freshman of the Year in 2000.

Originally from Washington, DC, Lohman currently lives outside Philadelphia while she plays for the Philadelphia Independence soccer team.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“


– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
 Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

– Ella Fitzgerald

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett