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

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.

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

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.

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."

You have to fight harder, dig deeper, and prove all the doubters wrongs.

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