I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and family.

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

I played soccer all my life and I used to think growing up that they put the fat kid in goal or they put the kid that wasn't good with the ball at their feet in goal and I never wanted to do goalkeeper, I was always the goal scorer.

I try to live my life one day at a time, and if I look too far in advance, I get really stressed.

I put all of my energy into building the game and giving women opportunities and, to put everything into it and then to be deemed selfish or not a good team player or outspoken, it's been hard. But at the same time, I'm going to get the critics and I know that.