Quotes from Lindsey Horan

I think I'm at my best when I'm on the ball, I'm feeling the game, I feel free, and I'm setting the tone for the game.

It's hard to wrap your mind around what the Challenge Cup was and I think once we did that it was incredible and I think everyone was bought in.

Playing three games in seven or eight days is very tough.

I had a lot of tough times.

I miss a lot about Paris. After three and a half years, you get a little sick of it, and you just want to be home. But there are little things, sights. Like seeing the Eiffel Tower every day, that's kind of cool.

Putting me into training sessions playing against players that were 10 years older, that were way more experienced and, honestly, way better, it was a big shock for me.

I don't really like school. It's really not my thing. I was barely there when I was in high school because I traveled so much. When I put effort into it, I can deal with it. But soccer was my main priority. That can sound bad, but it was.

It took me a year to make the decision to go pro and skip college and give up that.

I know it's kind of cliche to say Messi is your hero, but it was special for me because I was training with our boys' team a lot in order to push myself. I was really inspired by the way Messi could still control a game despite being the smallest person on the pitch.

I just kick the ball against the cement wall and work on my touches and juggling.

Everything started with my mom. When I was five, she asked me if I wanted to sign up for soccer, but I had some pretty wild contract demands. 'I'll only play if you're my coach.' So my mom went to the library and brought home a bunch of books on how to coach soccer, and that was it. She was my first manager.

I wish I could say that I saw Barcelona playing on TV and fell in love with football instantly, but I'm from Colorado and Fox Soccer Channel was pretty expensive.

Socially, I'm fine, and academically, I'm doing OK too.

My mentality is to get in and around the box as much as I possibly can and be more impactful in those areas where I think I can make a difference.

I think every single day, I can be doing more or learning something new.

Whether we're up 2-0 early in the second half, or we're up 1-0 with 10 minutes left in the game, my mind-set is the same when I come in the game. It's to help keep that lead, whatever way I can.

Covid time was not a fun time, I'll say that much. There was probably a week and a half there that was pretty miserable. And obviously I wouldn't want anyone to have to go through that.

I've missed proms and things like that, but I didn't really care much about that.

Hopefully it grows, hopefully we get more teams, and more people buy into us and realize how important it is for the women's game - and that our NWSL gets better and better so we can get better for our national team.

Watching football is such an underrated thing to help you grow as a player.

Honestly, I've just been trying to improve all parts of my game, and a statistic is just a statistic.

I was always a goal scorer in my youth career, that was one of my strengths.

I think going overseas and experiencing a whole new culture is something you can't learn anywhere else.