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 know that I'm breaking down barriers. And I know that in the end I'm doing a great thing.

I never felt the same passion for the game in the States and there were a lot of headaches, a lot of obstacles to overcome - it didn't just run itself for the love of the game because soccer is not the No. 1 sport as it is in Europe.

I have an attitude. It's what I do. I'm edgy. I have an attitude.

I have given my life to the game and to the sport.

When I was younger, I was a complete tomboy. Then in college I started emerging out of the tomboy stage and dressing differently.

[My mother] was the strength of our family, and I didn't realize that until I got a little bit older.