Sometimes I feel like my childhood has been taken away from me just a tiny bit. But if you want to achieve your goals, you have to sacrifice some things.

I couldn't ask for a better life.

I would love to play for Real Madrid. And I want to win a World Cup for the U.S. so bad. When the women won it, everybody went crazy. I would love to be part of something like that.

I feel the pressure but I embrace it. Whatever I have to do to make the sport catch on to other people, I'll do it.

If you're good enough, you're old enough.

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.

You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch... passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it's just a mindset you need to go into the game with.