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.

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.

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.

Is it possible not to ever know your type-not to even know you have a type-until quite suddenly you do?

Believe so brightly that everyone sees the beauty in believing.

Anybody who tries to change society without first examining the family, is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.

All is as it should be.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

I've always had an interest in sports across the board.

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.

The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every time when you finally get there.

True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.