I have crazy, curly, big hair, so,if I have time to try to make myself look presentable, I usually spend it doing my hair.
If I put my pinkie to my thumb, I can cover my wrist all the way to the knuckle. When I get a watch, I always have to go and get extra holes put in or get a special bracelet that's adjustable.
On game days, I do yoga as just a really short routine. It's more to warm up and to calm down in the morning.
I think my most happy and carefree state was 2012 because I really did say, 'Forget everything. I'm going to play for myself.'
My first year with Gothenburg was the most carefree because I was playing on a middle-of-the-table team in Sweden. It was a lot less of the global attention.
As a goal scorer, my focus is always on converting my chances and being clinical in the box. That's my No. 1 priority.
The tactics in NWSL are so chaotic. It's so about physicality. It's both teams attacking with nine players, and it's just so open on the transitions, really fast-paced to the point of being out of control. The Damallsvenskan is a little extreme on the other side: it's so under control, there are 20 passes strung before you even go forward.
I'm a dreamer, and I'm a perfectionist, and I love excellence, and that's hardwired in me. But when I was young, I lived in a space for a long time where I only felt insufficient.
I've had chronic back pain since I was a preteen - like, 12. I have really funny posture. I developed this funny posture where I hunch my back a little bit when I'm playing, and I overuse my back muscles instead of my abs. My posture has put a lot of strain on my lower back.
My restlessness leaves my mind racing as I try to wind down at the end of mandatory recovery day. It keeps me tossing after poor performances. And if I played well, well... playing well makes me itch to play better; there is always room for improvement.
If you win games, at the top, there's no pressure to change. You change when you have to change. You change when you don't win anymore.
As a professional athlete, part of my job is to make sure I'm consuming high quality nutrients.
The American professional schedule gives players a six-month off-season, so many of us have become pickup regulars while training without an organized team.
Wherever I am, I always do yoga every day. I think it's so important for my physical health in sport.
I remember playing games and having tears roll down my face because it felt like it was never going to be good enough.
I think the American sports culture has the idea that professional athletes need so much, like flying private planes, which obviously we don't, but that's the American sports culture when they think of the NFL and the NBA.
I gave up on the national team - I thought to myself, 'Well, that's just not something that's going to happen for me.' The national team was in residency camp; I was 6,000 miles away. Nobody was watching, nobody cared... I'm just going to go play for myself and my team and try to be great... and I had more fun than I'd have ever had.
While I don't know if I exist in the land of the elite, I'm definitely on the battlefield with restlessness.
I was in front of the goal so much at Stanford. I still amassed a lot of goals, but there were so many opportunities that I wasn't scoring.
When you're transitioning, and you're trying to develop a better brand of soccer, at some point, you have to step backward before you step forward.
