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

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."

There's no reason that young girls shouldn't feel like they can't smash people on the field. Nothing dirty. You want to keep it clean. You just want to play hard. Get your jersey dirty, shorts dirty, and just have fun out there.

You can be angry and pissed off at the coach and put your head down and pout. Or you can rise above it, respect the decision, but also know that you're going to go and work that much harder and prove everybody wrong. And that's the road that I chose.

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

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.

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