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.

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.

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

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.

Without hope, we are lifeless.

Your words hurt, Jazz. They hurt like cotton balls thrown in my direction.

Yeah, I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.

We thrive with thankfulness.

Talent alone can't give you a gold medal.There is practise, there is hard work and there is a will to succeed.

I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting . . . " I think the show should be emotional story lines, morals, real- life heroes. And that's what we're doing

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

My wife and I have created our own language. We can be at a table with six other people and have an argument without anyone knowing. It doesn't even have to be out loud. It's bizarre.

You are the only one that creates your reality.

No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.