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

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.

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.

There are too many windbags in this world. Speak only when you are competent in a subject - It produces dignity." - L. R. W. Lee Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury

Either get busy living your life or life will leave you behind.

Scripture offers the unique access to the story of redemption and then, in turn, funds tradition, reason and experience, as God's Word is remembered, experienced, and thought about.

The race doesn't always belong to the swift nor the battle to the strong. It belongs rather to those who run the race, who stay the course and who fight the good fight.

Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what's right and what's left but what's right and what's wrong.

It's weird how me and that insect are miles apart in terms of lifestyle, yet we both like a biscuit.

I don't understand why Christians are taking such a bashing...and why do we glorify people that do destructive things?

Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun!

In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.

You go through your career and you find people and cast who you love and you go through and keep them and you never want to let them go because you have a great repertory with them.