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.

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 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.

Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal. I think, male or female, that was a record number.

I sometimes think you despise poetry, ' said Phineas. 'When it is false I do. The difficulty is to know when it is false and when it is true.

I love that India has declared dolphins non-human people with all laws that apply to human. I'm fascinated with the alien-ness of that.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.

When everyone has let you down... You still have ice cream.

There are moments in life when we need to trust blindly in intuition

So, yeah. Our cat was a goddess. What else is new?

[Edward Snowden and his team] they're great characters. They're fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.