35-year-old American legend Abby Wambach has one final chance to lift the trophy that has eluded her Sunday against Japan in the Women’s World Cup Final. Before the biggest game of her life in her final World Cup match, Wambach reflected on her illustrious career in a touching farewell speech, and vowed to give everything she has to win in Vancouver.

“I’m the luckiest person, I feel like, on the planet, and it’s not because of any individual award or even playing on the grandest stage. It’s because I’ve been able to share it. My philosophy in life is that happiness is meant to be shared. We all have dreams and, if you’re out there and you have a dream and you want something — you want something so bad — you’ve got to risk everything. You’ve got to risk being completely devastated if you don’t achieve it, and when you fall down you’ve got to get back up. And so that’s what this means, that’s what this is, that’s who we are. This team does not lay down for very long. We have an opportunity to take the world by storm. We have an opportunity to bring back the World Cup back to the United States. We can do it. I know we can do it.”