I've known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.

My philosophy about the game, for instance, is that you have players out there who really do different things.

I don't think the game should be perfect. It's 95 percent mistakes out there - you have to work with 10 players on your side and another 11 against you. It's a crazy, chaotic game.

I've known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.

But that in and of itself this past year was not a factor in what I did for the national team every time I stepped out there, or in training, or when I stepped out there in the WUSA.

I'm not saying I didn't have ample time to recover, ample time to get to my best, I felt this year I did fine. When I stepped on the field for the national team, I was ready and able to make an impact, to score goals, to create chances.

You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold.

I can't pretend to be enjoying this. I can't pretend I'm enjoying going out there and playing this style.

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

Coaches give you too much information. I've been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.

I couldn't change who I am; I couldn't change the kind of player I am.

I think it's sad to me that I had to make a decision to not play the game that I feel like I'm best at and that I love. But if it was just about the game itself, I'd be there in a heartbeat. But that's not how the real world works.

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

It's not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.

Soccer's not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level.

To be the key player in creating and scoring goals, that's what I take pride in, and the thing I know how to do best.

The game of soccer has been able to give me what I wanted out of life. I just remember being a total Tomboy and athlete as a girl, but never having a lack of opportunity.

Behavior isn't something someone has. Rather, it emerges from the interaction of a person's biology, past experiences, and immediate context.

One of the most powerful scientific tools ever invented is the telephone.

They need to be re-supplied with energy, and that energy comes from asking not what your country can do for you, but from what you can do for your country.

I get a lot of letters from women who insist that 'Fight Club' is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet.

I couldn't really relate much to my younger sister, because she was born in 1992, and I was born in 1986. And then my older sister, we just didn't get on that much. Although we bonded over hating our stepdad.

And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome.

I think women tend to write about how violence feels, whereas men tend to write about what violence looks like.

I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.

The worst thing people ever say is that 'I can't afford to have kids!' It's selfish, and what infuriates me is when people say they can't do stuff they like go on holidays and buy cars when they have kids. You can - you find the money, you've just got to work harder for it.

The supernova sun would be cooler than the fire lighting our desire.

I built up a knowledge of 1960s and '70s British films because my dad used to work nights, and I'd sit up with my mum and watch films - 'How I Won the War' and the films of Richard Lester, Karel Reisz and John Schlesinger.

When you think of 'Biggest Loser,' you think of it as a TV show. But people are coming to lose weight. I take that very seriously.

It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.

Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there.

Technically, maybe I learned most of all from George Stevens, and among his movies I learned the most from 'A Place in the Sun.' It's a lesson in moviemaking.

I have to try and uplift the standard of living for the people in Zambia. If I cannot do that, I will have failed.

Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was.

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

It doesn't matter if you are model or not; confidence is something that comes from inside.

That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

An excuse is nothing more than a self-imposed roadblock.