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" I'm totally obsessed with Tilda Swinton. She has this strange, beautiful sexiness about her. I love everything she does. And I love her hair. It was a little bit of an inspiration for mine. "

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" Sometimes when you date people, you end up breaking up, and if teammates are mature enough to deal with that, then it's okay. I never want to bring any undue drama to the team. "

Megan Rapinoe

Teammates

You

End

" Being a gay American, I know what it means to look at the flag and not have it protect all of your liberties. "

" I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you're an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it's everybody's responsibility. "

" I just think gay men are looked at much less favorably than gay women. If you look at the overall stereotype, lesbians are sexy, and gay men are disgusting. Girl and girl is fine, and guy and guy seems to just be something completely different. "

" I take playing for my country very seriously. It's a huge honor. "

" It seems like I'm thinking 400 hours a day; that's kind of how it feels. "

Megan Rapinoe

Thinking

Seems

" I think that a lot of these cops have been put in very difficult situations and tasked with very difficult jobs with very little training and very little help. "

" Some guy in Germany has my face tattooed on the back of his calf. That was wild. It was a decent tattoo job, but that's kind of weird for me. "

Megan Rapinoe

Job

Face

" You never want to go through a coaching change mid-cycle. "

" Being female and an advocate for equal opportunities, I want to see an equal representation in people applying for the head coach job for the women's team. "

" For this group, because we have so many big personalities, I think the manager also has to have a big personality but in a way that sort of knows how to deal with everything. "

" Maybe you're not having a thousand times more injuries, but there's an aspect to the purity of the game and the quality of the game that is played on grass that is different on turf. "

" I was made exactly the way I was meant to be made in who I am and my personality and the way I was born. "

" I think more people are engaged in the issues I want to talk about. "

" Being a winger or a wide mid, I have to run continuously for 90 minutes, which not only takes endurance but also strength in my legs to be able to be explosive for 90 minutes. I think weight training has really allowed me to sustain for those 90 minutes. "

" Putting yourself out there is hard, but it's so worth it. I don't think anyone who has ever spoken out, or stood up or had a brave moment, has regretted it. It's empowering and confidence-building and inspiring. Not only to other people, but to yourself. "

" We didn't lose a game at home for two years. What are we missing? We have the product on the field. We're exciting. "

" It's often hard to just throw money at a problem when you don't really know what the problem is. "

" Homophobia in male sports is much stronger than in women's sports; the locker room environment is a lot different. It's going to be much more of a brave step, an earthshaking move, for a gay male athlete to come out. "

" In female sports, if you're gay, most likely your team knows it pretty quickly. It's very open and widely supported. For males, it's not that way at all. It's sad. "

" I think it's very difficult, and people don't give enough credit to how hard it is to do in-game commentary. I'd have a lot of work to do, but I'd definitely be interested. I'm always interested in breaking down the game, and I'd love to see more females doing it. "

" The climate is much different for men. That stigma is only going to be broken when people come out and see that there is a positive response. That doesn't mean there will be no negative response, but if people can have the courage to be one of the first, which is very hard, those barriers can be broken down very quickly. "

" When I take a knee, I am facing the flag with my full body, staring straight into the heart of our country's ultimate symbol of freedom - because I believe it is my responsibility, just as it is yours, to ensure that freedom is afforded to everyone in this country. "

" I feel like everyone is really craving people to come out. People want - they need - to see that there are people like me playing soccer for the good ol' U.S. of A. "

Megan Rapinoe

People

Need

" You have someone like Colin or many of the other athletes who have knelt, especially athletes of colour, and if you're not respecting what they're saying, if you're not believing their charges of police brutality or racial inequality, you're saying that they're lying. "

" I feel in my heart it is right to continue to kneel during the national anthem, and I will do whatever I can to be part of the solution. "

" I need to feel like I have that freedom to make mistakes and to just try things. "

Megan Rapinoe

Need

Mistakes

" I think, in a large way, it's, 'OK, you've knelt; you've made your point.' But I don't necessarily feel like that. I don't know what that looks like. Do I kneel forever? I don't know, probably not. But I think until I can feel like I'm being more effective in other ways, then this seems appropriate to me. "

Megan Rapinoe

You

Feel

" I think, bottom line, I have to be good enough to make the team. I have to bring something in and beat somebody else out, especially with a smaller roster for the Olympics. "

" I think it's absolutely absurd that we're playing on turf, and it's really a slap in the face to women's football by FIFA and just a show of disrespect. "