I grew up in a military family, and my dad was gone for long periods of time. Families make it work because you know you care for each other.

I don't have to talk about critics - I don't care.

I love pace. I love it.

A win's a win in a World Cup.

These countries - Spain, France, Germany - have environments that are really geared toward the professional player.

From my perception, listen: the game is different on turf, but it's the same for everybody.

It's incumbent on you to play games outside your region that will really test you. That's important to keep your edge.

I think people get hung up on starters and 11s, and that number kind of rings through a lot of media's heads.

Ultimately, we've got to make sure our players understand that the margin for error is very small against these top teams in the world, and we've been punished several times for that.

Something you look at when you go into a World Cup is your depth and your players that change the game.

The players come out and want to be as fresh as they can, press, keep a team in their end, create chances, create set pieces, and really try and get the upper hand early.

You have to pay the same amount of detail regardless of opponent when so much is on the line.

You can do a lot of breakdown on games you played, but the takeaways from games you've played has to be on what's in front of you.

If someone's off their line, they're off their line.

A rule is a rule.

We need people in the game to be honest, to call things as they are.

I can truly say this: I don't care, and I've never really read what people thought.

Player X might be the best outside back, but does that player help the best wide player be as good?

When I first took over the team in 2014, the message was, even if you're on the right track, if you sit there, you'll get run over.

Any player playing at a high level is available for consideration to the women's national team.

Many people say, 'Your dad was so ahead of his time,' and he was a feminist in the truest sense, but he's very much for opportunities for all people... To him, a soccer player is a soccer player.

What soccer and coaching gave me was sort of a stage.

If we're looking at the pure development of our game, the challenge is not to have a 200-cap player because that means there is something better that is coming along.

The players do their thing on the pitch, and there's a lot of young women or former players that want to coach.

Part of what's important for me is for our players to play on the road.

It's easy for a player to stand out in two or three days. But the grind of a camp, and just the level of consistency in performance that requires, that needs to happen.

I think every time I'm with the team, even in a World Cup, as a coach, you're constantly evaluating.

It's fascinating to me how they build bridges or tunnels.

I am a sensitive person.

If you ask my dad, I'm always the person that found the little bird out of the nest and is trying to put it back or take care of it.

What I've always valued is people.

When all is said and done, I always used to say this to recruits: 'I don't remember one goal I scored. I don't remember one result. I just remember the people that touched my life and that connected with me.'

I grew up playing with boys in the yard and my brother in the backyard and boys in the schoolyard.

There are a lot of programs, a lot of teams now that have the backing of federations, the growth of the game domestically. You see this with Holland; you see this with Italy. It's a matter of time. I had to leave my home country to go and experience the game. Now, it's delightful that these countries are actively supporting women's football.

I just love the sport, love the game.

I get a text every day from my dad: 'Enjoy the challenge.'

You don't go into coaching if you're not willing to step into that moment and go, 'OK, this is what it's going to take, and this is why you do it.' Everything hinges on winning and losing, right?

Coming out of 2015, I just realized it's OK not to look perfect. It's OK to make sure that your players remain in that bubble, stay focused and true to who we are, and keep the belief internally.

World Cups aren't moments to invest in players.

Especially in the States, at every level - whether it's collegiate, whether it's our professional league - we need more women in coaching, 100 percent.

I have been a Man United lass since I was seven.

If a team has multiple looks, it's so hard to stand in front of your team and say, 'This is the scouting report. This is what you have to prepare for.'

I don't read social media.

When we went into 2015, we had our way of playing, and we were fairly rigid in what we were doing.

Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.

Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a curve. The more you know, the more likely you are to vote in an ideologically consistent way, not just following your party but following a set of constraints dictated by a political ideology.

Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories aren't often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc.

History is only written from what remains.

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

In antihistory, time is an illusion.