I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too

Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...

Time Can Not Cure Heart's Wounds Never, But Wounds Spoil and Kill Heart On The Time

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and you go back and bring it up to that point.

I think my parents were high when they named me.

Sound is the first thing that we tune into.

Gaddafi's a great bloke. The media only show the bad things. I used to go round his house. His son's a super simple guy. All the Gaddafis are very down to earth.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

Most human beings still cannot trust love.

Don't believe something just because you didn't read it in the papers. Wait until you haven't seen it on television.