“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."

“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.”

“I want my impression on girls to be positive and inspire them to believe in themselves as people and athletes. I want them to have the same opportunities I have been fortunate enough to have."

“Just play your game, and the rest of that stuff is out of your hands. The way I look at it is that I want to be a positive influence in the way people look at women’s soccer. I don’t know what that means in terms of celebrity status and that kind of stuff, but I want to move young girls and boys and society in the right direction, so that women are placed equally with men.”

“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.”

“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.”