Some of the players are known as scorers or assists. I guess what I am known as being is an ironwoman.

You have to control what you can control, not the entire game, and try to play the best soccer possible and play clean and be smart and professional.

Always double-knot your sneakers. One of my teammates once lost a shoe during a game!

Anytime you have any opportunity to be with the national team it's an honor and a challenge, and it is something I am looking forward to.

Running with the bulls was one of my crazier judgments in life and one of those things I decided to do spur of the moment. It was pretty hilarious.

Hair is really where we can be creative. I have my "game hair," which is always different than how I'd wear it at practice.

Women's soccer is not heavily publicized, so when you have an opportunity to be in a big magazine that publicity can be good. It definitely helpes as far as awareness about women's soccer.

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

To a happy war!' laughter echoed with all the insane glee of an army of psychopaths.

Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End

Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

No child's behind left.

My songs, well, they are sad, but in all of them the person singing them - me or whoever - is actually still trying and hasn't given up yet.

She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than the poets can say And her eyes are for something that won't go away.

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

Just like dust, we settle in this town.

The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.