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• ‟ Football made me want to train and stay disciplined. It kept me away from things like drugs. Young people are faced with the temptation to stray all the time.

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• ‟ To walk out at Wembley in an England shirt is a big deal for a girl who remembers playing in her local football cage down the park in Poplar with the boys.

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• ‟ I never want anyone to think I've been given a helping hand. I've always worked for everything, whether it be on the football field or away from it.

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• ‟ Some people don't like change. Some embrace it. But the way it's going - not just in football, but in society generally - it's more diverse. People want freshness.

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• ‟ I know what I do, I know I can play football, and I know I can talk about it.

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• ‟ My mum never once tried to push me into something different, even though there was no way of making a living out of women's football. She supported me because she saw I was happy and that it gave me a focus to not be hanging around on the street.

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• ‟ I may not have played men's football, but I've been at World Cups as a player. I know the emotions. I've been in quarter finals, a semi-final. I'd been substituted and sat on the bench watching us lose a penalty shoot-out. I know what happens, what you need when the pressure's on.

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• ‟ Women are the same. We watch football; we play football. Why wouldn't we be out there giving our opinions on the sport ,too?

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• ‟ I've been in football since I was eight. Of course I know what I'm talking about.

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• ‟ When I was going off to training and matches at Arsenal, my mum wouldn't be on the side cheering me on: she'd be working so I'd have football boots. I saw that you had to work hard if you wanted to do anything in life.

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• ‟ I'm just happy I get paid to train every day and play football. I can't ask more than that.

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• ‟ While I was playing football in the U.S., I learnt to play the guitar, and I'm picking it up again now.

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• ‟ Sure, I do feel I am an ambassador for women's football. But that hasn't changed. It's been like that since I started at eight years old. I'm still me.

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• ‟ The U.S.A. have a 'football arrogance,' which means winning is in their DNA - nothing else is good enough.

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• ‟ When I was younger, my food and fitness were less controlled - I just loved football.

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• ‟ Most of my football education was under Hope Powell, and were some of her training sessions boring? Yes. But were they necessary? Yes. We fully understood what we needed to do as a defensive unit.

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• ‟ The enjoyment of playing football gave me a positive pathway, but I could have taken a very different path.

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• ‟ For me, football is football. I'm a fan; I'm passionate. I feel lucky to be in the position that I am.

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• ‟ I was fortunate enough to play in a number of finals, and I can still remember waking with butterflies in my stomach. It is at moments like those you realise why you fell in love with football in the first place.

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