The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.
It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.
My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.
I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.
I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.
When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
I would love to be a mum if I'm blessed to have children. My wife and I have those plans.
Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.
I'm pretty goofy. I laugh at my own jokes.
I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
The most important thing is to get better at your craft, and concussions and head impacts are a setback.
As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.
My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
My teammates have put me in all different kinds of positions to score goals, and I can't say it enough, and I really through and through believe it in my heart that I'm only as good as my teammates allow me to be.
One thing I love to do when I'm working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and just run - not for time, not for exertion, but just to get the blood flowing.
The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.
