Go ahead, tell Kaylyn Kyle she can’t do something. She dares you.

“I was told I was never going to make it,” the 26-year-old midfielder with the Canadian women’s national soccer team says in a 60-second TV spot for Under Armour.

“I like when people don’t have that faith in you, I guess you can say, because it just makes me want to work even harder and get in the zone, and then I’m ready.”

Kyle was a member of Canada’s bronze medal-winning squad at the 2012 London Olympics — a team that raised the soccer world’s collective eyebrows as it came tantalizingly close to playing for gold.

“I love proving people wrong,” she continues in the commercial, “and standing on that podium, watching my flag rise, getting that medal put around my neck, that was definitely my moment.”

The Saskatoon native will be looking to prove more people wrong as Canada prepares to do more than just host the upcoming FIFA Women’s World Cup.

Kyle takes that same never-surrender attitude into training, although she admits she has moments — usually during an incredibly gruelling session — when she questions her sanity and momentarily considers tossing in the proverbial towel.

“Obviously there’s days where you’re like, ‘Why am I doing this?’ ... hard sessions where you want to give up,” she tells Keeping Fit by phone from Toronto.

But she keeps it all in perspective. And she keeps going.

“As much as a workout may suck or as much as you don’t want to do that extra lap, you just always have to look at the bigger picture and see what’s in the future,” explains Kyle, who plays for the Portland Thorns FC of the National Women’s Soccer League when she’s not busy representing Canada.