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" I love everything about football. You can learn so much from it, from leadership qualities to discipline. This sport involves every kind of emotion. "

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" To see fans cheering your name, that's shocking. I'm like, 'Wait, how do you know who I am?' "

" I model myself on Christie Rampone and look up to her. Obviously, achieving what she's achieved would be magnificent. I'd really like to meet her just once. "

" I found people that were willing to push me. I was like, 'These are my goals. I need you to get me here.' I don't need any excuses. I won't make any excuses. I'm over making excuses. "

" I would love to see myself as versatile - I think that's important as a player - but I think, realistically, I feel like kind of how the team sees me is probably more set in stone as a center-back defender, which is totally fine. "

" I didn't want to go completely on my toes for our first kiss. "

" It's important to be a soccer player in the sense of the whole vision - if you put me at forward, I can do it, or if you put me in midfield, I can do it. "

" Everything happens for a reason, if you work hard for it. "

" Sometimes I just have a chance to go forward, so of course I try to make the most of it. "

" I think it's pretty crazy when I walk down in the airport and a 12-year-old boy comes up to me and says, 'Hey, I watched you at the World Cup. Great game! Great job!' I love that. "

" Rampone and the other experienced players gave me plenty of support when I first came into the national team in 2013. "

" The World Cup has been life-changing, for many reasons. "

" I loved being an attacker so much. I mean, it wasn't so much that I didn't think defending was fun or anything like that. It was just - growing up, that's kind of all I knew - was attack, attack, attack. "

" There were times when I tried to hide my muscles. When you're a young girl, you hear, 'You're really strong,' or, 'You have really toned arms.' In my head, it wasn't something that should be said about a girl. It should be more, 'You're pretty.' "

" Pilates and yoga, we always do those together. But I think it's a little bit easier for me, at 5-7, to be more flexible and to move a little better than him at 6-5. "

" I would love to inspire our nation and continue the success of U.S. women's soccer. "