Every time I step in between those lines, I'm in the zone. If you get between me and the ball, you might get smashed a couple times. Things happen, plays happen.

The harder you work and the more prepared you are for something, you're going to be able to persevere through anything.

The end goal is to become FIFA Women's Player of the Year.

I kind of play like a guy. I don't hold grudges. I don't get dramatic with things. If somebody slide tackles me in training and we leave the field, I'm still talking to them. I think that there's very few of us out there that can just take confrontation, and if you've got an issue with something, you can go to that person and say it.

I think that I'm just on such a mission with my career that you don't really get to stop and think about your jersey number too often.

When I first met him [James Galanis], he just said, "Look, if you want to be a professional soccer player, if you want to make the national team, you have to do everything possible to work hard. You’ve got to put it number one."

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.