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My parents, they're the kind of people that didn't want me to get a big head, so they just kept challenging me and challenging me.
My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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.
Nobody is offered a World Cup.
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.
People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
Soccer players generally burn through all of their carbohydrate stores by halftime, so how are you going to replace those? That's what we do at halftime.
Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I think it's good to shake up things a little bit.
Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.
Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.
The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.
The minute you step off that podium is the minute you start preparing for the next world championship. That's kind of how I work. You celebrate for a brief moment, then you move on.
The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.
The most important thing is to get better at your craft, and concussions and head impacts are a setback.
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.
There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.
This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don't know, but when I'm not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness, in a lot of ways, when I'm not playing.
To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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