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 have no personal beef with Brandi Chastain. There's nothing personal.

I still don't buy the idea that I'm a 'sex symbol.'

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

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

My entire purpose is trying to be the best in the game, and if that exudes beauty too, that's pretty powerful.

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.