A great team relies on its leaders and they have to make a difference at key moments.

Like the greats, you want to make your own story yourself, and not be a copy of another.

I work hard every day to try to help my team. I try to have fun too – because football is still fun – and scoring goals, breaking records, that’s what drives me.

The Champions League is very difficult and you need to keep your concentration at all times.

With Ronaldo in the league, people will be passionate again about Serie A.

I am happy, and I am living the life I always dreamed of.

I’m not going to revolutionise football. I’m in a system. You have to know how to respect it and to stay in place.

I try to work to improve myself every day and I try to do on the pitch what I do during the training sessions.

Learning is fine, but you also have to win – you only have one career.

In football, everything is possible, from the moment you work and you believe in your qualities.

We must stop feeling fear.

You can’t sit around and do nothing, you have to carry on.

I get up in the morning and I go to practice like everyone else.

I am going to be a professional soccer player.

You're always going to survive the pain of loss. I can live with that confidence inside of me.

Unfortunately, people think I'm negative and bitter all the time, and that's not the case.

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

Of course Seattle loves soccer. You can see from the men's Seattle Sounders team.

London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.