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 was still playing basketball and baseball - everything else I wanted to do as a kid. Modeling was a chance to get out of school early and go into the city.

I love playing basketball. And to be able to continue to play as a job, that's the best to me.

I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.