Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.

You have to fight harder, dig deeper, and prove all the doubters wrongs.

The harder you work and the more prepared you are for something, you're going to be able to persevere through anything.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.

Work hard at everything you do. Never give up. Never quit. Many people have talents but without the hard work you won't get anywhere.

Every time I step in between those lines, I'm in the zone. If you get between me and the ball, you might get smashed a couple times. Things happen, plays happen.

I'm a competitor. No matter what I'm doing, whether I'm golfing, whether I'm playing indoor soccer with my fiancé - he's not going to get by me. I'm going to try to do whatever I can to win.

I'm honest. If people aren't putting in the effort, I will definitely let them know because I think that that can only help them.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't human and tears weren't rolling down my face and I wasn't pissed and I wasn't angry. There are lots of times that those emotions come out in my career.

I think that I'm just on such a mission with my career that you don't really get to stop and think about your jersey number too often.

The end goal is to become FIFA Women's Player of the Year.

Can we be clear about who we are, what we want? Can we be fully present in our truth, and communicate that? Can we understand each other?

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

YOU COULD LOCK the Gasman in a padded cell with some dental floss and a bowl of Jell-O, and he'd find a way to make something to explode.

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

It turns out she is Canadian, my editor, and so she drinks like a fish. So she wasn't a lightweight at all. And in the morning, she said that the idea still seemed like a good one, and here we are.

The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.