Female athletes are supposed to be toned down. You're always supposed to talk about the team and never stand out.

With each year that's gone by, and as I grow up and get older, I've become more mature, of course, but you have a sense of who you are, and you find confidence in that.

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.

As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn't matter what your interests are. People can have their own lives.

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

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.

I burn so many calories when I work out that I don't really count calories or necessarily try and stay away from anything.