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

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

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.

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.

Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.

Reading brings us unknown friends

A man who wants time to read and write lets the grass grow long.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Faith talks in the language of God. Doubt talks in the language of man.

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings

One must strive to be as honest as you are humanly capable with yourself and others. It is impossible to move forward otherwise.

I grew up playing soccer and always loved playing it.

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.