I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.

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

It's a complicated thing, knowing how much pain my father caused in my life and the lives of others whom I love, yet still holding love for him in my heart. No matter what he did, he was my father. He helped create the person I am.

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 think every athlete has their window of opportunity, and you just have to jump on it. You never know when it can end. So I'm just trying to live large while I have the opportunity.