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.

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.

Tough times never last. Tough people do

I don’t see how anyone can find happiness in this world.

No one who meets Jesus ever stays the same.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Faith in oneself unlocks those hidden powers that all of us have, but that so few of us use.

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

I wouldnt change anything because the mistakes and the hurt are as important as all the great fights. They made me who I am today.

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.