I'll be honest. After I got married, I definitely had a shift in emotional devotion.

Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.

I don't know if I found soccer or if soccer found me. Especially because when I was younger, I was doing it, in a lot of ways, because I wanted the attention of my mom and dad.

2014 was physically a tough year because I injured my knee, and you know how that goes with your emotions and the mentality.

Winning, you can overlook so many things.

My go-to karaoke? 'Alone' by Celine Dion.

I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.

I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.

When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.

I'm not in the business of politics.