My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer. You're going to look back 20 years from now and of course you're going to remember the games. But I'm going to remember seeing my family in the stands.

My No. 1 goal, and what I've spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I want to retire so badly with that World Cup, but if I don't, then I'll retire knowing that I've done everything I could to get it.

I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.

I try to live my life one day at a time, and if I look too far in advance, I get really stressed.

I live for competition. It makes my life complete.