I watched 'Match of the Day' growing up every week and I'm talking until I was 29-years-old.

If there is ever one thing you learn as a professional footballer, you have a lot of critics and you have the chance to silence your critics.

I grew up desperate to be a professional footballer and I was willing to do anything to be one.

Players want a manager you feel in your gut you want to play for - they can have the best tactics and philosophy in the world but if you have lost a player in his heart or head, you have lost him in every other department.

I definitely did not like my body when I first started sports. I didn't like my body just in general as a teenager. Being a girl and a teenager with two prosthetic legs and two hands that were misshapen that had so much reconstructive surgery on them, I thought my world was over - put a zit on top of that, and then my life is completely over.

I feel I have experienced pretty much everything I can in football, winning, losing, the injury side and all the set-backs.

I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.

The diet for climbing all the time isn't really different from the diet for living. It's not like cardio sports where you're burning a bajillion calories every day.