There are a lot of good football players in the league. You just try to keep yourself grounded.
When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
Football players value job security and stability as much anybody else.
Coach Amodu has coached the cream of Nigerian football players and I had the privilege of working with him albeit for a very short time during the preparations for the two-legged Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Egypt.
Football players have always got a problem, some pain, and in some games, I have had small problems with my knee or some pain, and I played anyway, but people don't know if I have a problem or not. People just know if you score a goal or if you play badly, but they never know if you are well or not.
Our daily work ethic - that need to always do better and top our last performance - is what makes USWNT football players who we are.
Certainly, our work has identified CTE in many professional football players, but we're also seeing it in a very high percentage of college players.
My brothers played football. In fact, I was an absolutely enormous Packer fan, and because I was raised in such a football-centric community, I have always had a terrific admiration for football players.
I have a lot of college football players in my Brain Bank with CTE.
I think, a lot of guys who want to be professional football players, they see the Premiership players, and they see the finished article, but there's a lot of hard work that's gone into their careers for them to get there. There's a lot of sacrifice, and I think people tend to forget that.
