L.A. is a bit strange. It doesn't seem like the real world.

When I did 'Dancing With the Stars,' everyone in Hollywood was saying I had too much muscle.

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.

My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. He just, he had a rough life. You know, he grew up in a boys home in the Bronx. He didn't really know his own family. So I couldn't hold it against him that he didn't know how to parent. He didn't know how to be the perfect husband. But he loved as much as he could.

I wear my dad's cross. It's very important to me. I hang it in my locker before each game.

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself.

I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person.