Ive known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

Do you have the heart to push yourself? If you don't, find a way to get it because talent will only get you so far. You've got to be hungry. You've got to have heart. That's just reality.

If you are passionate about something, that will enable you to be the best you can be.

You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold.

Coaches give you too much information. Ive been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.

Everybody has down times and stuff that they have to work through. I worked through that stuff because I've always wanted to be playing soccer.

The game of soccer has been able to give me what I wanted out of life. I just remember being a total Tomboy and athlete as a girl, but never having a lack of opportunity.

When it's game situation, when it's game day, game time, when it's World Cup, when it's these tournaments that happen once every so often, I live for that, I live for that challenge.

I couldnt change who I am; I couldnt change the kind of player I am.

Its not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.

A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.

Rely on renewable energy flows that are always there whether we use them or not, such as, sun, wind and vegetation: on energy income, not depletable energy capital.

The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.

Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.

When a movie succeeds, it takes me to another world where I don't think about it and I'm just immersed.

At 3, I played an innocent game of doctor, minus the stethoscope and medicine bag.

I don't have to say I'm going to make a song. A song is always there. I just have to open my mouth and a song comes out.

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.

The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.