When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.

London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.

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 am pushed by my critics. I don't want to say I want to prove them wrong, but it pushes me on the field to play with a chip on my shoulder, and I play best when I have a chip on my shoulder.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

No one wants to lose, period. It should hurt, it should sting, and you don't want to feel that feeling again.

Of course Seattle loves soccer. You can see from the men's Seattle Sounders team.