I've said it before, but community colleges are the best-kept secret in the nation.

I don't think any mother who has lost a child is ever the same.

Many Americans don't know anyone in the military, so they aren't aware that, on average, a military child attends six to nine schools by the time he or she graduates from high school. Through each transition, the children have to leave their friends, try out for new sports teams and adjust to a new school community.

I am not a speaker. The more you do it, the easier it becomes, but I always want to be prepared, and I always practice my speeches; I never do it off the cuff.

Every day, I see my students work hard to overcome obstacles just to be in the classroom.

Let's face it, we really did need something like this in this country to fight childhood obesity.

Health is very important to me.

As a lifelong educator and as part of a military family, the way we reach out to military children in our classrooms has been especially close to my heart.

Teaching is what I've always done.

I knew that it was harder to unite two lives than I had imagined growing up. I knew that relationships could be fragile.

There is a stigma attached to community colleges, and we do need to change the narrative.

We have asked a lot of our military families and I believe they deserve the very best efforts of each of us to show them how much we appreciate their service to our country.

I loved teaching English and giving my students confidence.

Life is change.

I try to take good care of myself.

The passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 was a substantial victory for community colleges.

A lot of students who are 18 or 19 go to college partly for the social aspect of it. At the community college, people's goals are a little different. Their needs are more immediate.

I mean, I deal with so many problems on a personal basis with my students and I think to myself, 'Nobody ever trained me to do this.'

Actually, after many years on the campaign trail, there is not a particular food that I've come across that I would avoid.

Community colleges are the way of the future.

There's always things you can refine and polish.

To be respectful to opponents is to play hard against them.

Coaches understand that pressure is part of the rush of coaching. The challenge of trying to outplay your opponent is part of the fun, the adrenaline, the preparation, seeing your team evolve. It's why coaches become coaches.

You've got to make sure you're listening to the people that are important to listen to. And then everything else, you kind of have to tune out and do your thing.

You've got to turn over every stone; you've got to look for every advantage. You need to make sure you're doing everything you possibly can, not just on the field but off it, to give your team an advantage - from having a sleep expert coming to talk to your team to having an independent analysis of your team done.

I have a lot of fond memories of my life in England.

When you have a group of players with self-belief... nine times out of 10, players can be very talented to make the roster, but they need that quality, and it is pivotal at a World Cup.

I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.

I have a tremendous staff around me. It's a really good family vibe in terms of our environment.

When you go to a World Cup, in midfield you need to have players who can score from distance, who can get in the box and obviously play-make.

I had zero opportunity to play football over the years.

Opportunity only knocks so many times.

You have to be able to adjust with the moment, whether it's an injury, a result.

I grew up playing in the schoolyard with the boy, and on the side of the grounds my dad coached on. I have a lot of fond memories.

We've got to make sure we have players that can break teams down because there's no space in behind; we need to problem-solve in a different way.

My whole British culture in growing up is still with me for sure. I'm very grateful for that.

Every game you play, you gain. There's always valuable lessons.

Players don't change drastically. Maybe they get more in form if they're a goal scorer, or they get healthier if they've been injured.

We have to constantly be looking to improve.

I haven't seen many pretty games in a World Cup.

I never thought I'd end up coaching. It wasn't the plan.

I think I'm just a naturally curious person.

I took a $40k pay cut to leave my technical copywriter job and work for $6k a year.

Little things that I've emphasized are turning in pockets and looking to penetrate and finding these spaces and playing at a good tempo when we're in the middle third.

World Cups are about winning.

I was just fortunate to move to the States and have an opportunity to play organized football.

I was a Pompey lass - I can't say I supported Pompey all the time.

Our intent is to attack for 90 minutes.

It's important that our team has confidence.

You spend a lot of time as a coach going through every possible scenario. That's the kind of level of depth and versatility you have to go through. When I did that, things started to really fall into place.