"Everything around us has an influence too. Knowing your loved ones are OK has an impact on your play. Having them here with me is hugely beneficial, and I hope it shows on the pitch."

"When a child is that young, you need him, but he also needs you"

"It’s just been nice for me to settle in one place. I have been on the go for so long. It's nice to have a place to call home."

"From the moment I arrived, I just loved every minute of being here."

"It's felt like the right place, the place I want to be and most importantly, the place where I've been showing some of my best football."

"Also, you have to enjoy what you are doing because when you are having fun there is a lot of things that come automatically.”"

"I always say that you have to believe in your dreams."

"I would now like to step up as a leader in the team and keep developing. I want to use my abilities to strengthen the team."

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"We mustn’t underestimate the opposition."

"Yes, and I loved playing on a team with boys. I was welcomed at every club, they accepted me and I always felt at home. Playing against boys definitely helped develop my athleticism, my reaction time and my aggressiveness."

"My mother was very supportive. I was playing with other boys my age from a young age and was much better than them, so my mum wasn’t too fussed."

"But because of my passion and love for football, I was able to follow my dream."

"Hopefully it triggers a chain reaction and more girls dream of becoming a footballer."

"I want to develop individually but there is also the need for us to make women’s sport more popular."

"Even if I were born again, I’d still play football."

"Our philosophy as a team is to always be united and do as we feel. 'This is how we've achieved everything so far."

"If I want something, I go after it no matter how many times I fail and knock myself against the wall."

"We have played the football as we wanted but I still think we are not aware of what we have achieved."

"As a person who wanted to leave Spain at the top, but above all, as someone who tried to change many ways of thought. Luckily or not, there’s this story, but I will learn to experience it positively to fight for what I think is good in society."

"There were moments where I didn’t remember I was a footballer."

"For me, mental health is as important as the daily training, as much as the hours I have to sleep to be able to go out onto the pitch."

"I’ve had to bear the consequences of an act that I didn’t provoke, which I didn’t choose or premeditate. I’ve received threats and that’s something which you will never get used to."

"As captain, it is important to wear the armband. But when it is necessary to speak up and put your fist on the table, you have to do it also."

"I hope that women's football will become global as there are no longer any taboos surrounding it. The stereotype that "boys should play football and girls do gymnastics" is in the past. Now the norms have changed, and anything is possible."

"I know I’m taking a risk, but if I don’t take it, who is going to take it?"

"I’m the captain, if I don’t speak, who will speak?"

"It’s always good to think things through and not react in the heat of the moment."

"People tweet me saying they have just seen me in town. It's great. But I just want to get on with the football. Just enjoy it - that's all I want to do."

"Women's football has such a platform now. It can only go from strength to strength. I just hope it encourages girls who might not have taken up the game to do it now."

"It is understanding my body, knowing when I need to take an extra day recovery, knowing when I need to do more recovery; like now I do recovery every day."

"Before, I was so worried about doing the same as everyone else, always comparing: ‘She’s on the training pitch so I need to go on the training pitch today,’ and then I’d just break down eventually."

"I've heard so many stories of older men and women - because it's not just men, it's a whole generation - who say they won't watch women's football and then they come and watch you play and say 'wow, that was really good'."

"It really means a lot especially knowing that we were so close to going home but it really means a lot. It is an emotional one personally because it is my first World Cup. It is really an emotional one, I do not want to lie but it’s all God’s glory for me. It means I will be able to help my family."

"I will be able to do everything for my mother because I’m the one who’s taking care of her. I’m the breadwinner, so I will be doing everything for my mother."

"They call me the 'Breadwinner', so without the breadwinner there is no bread, I had to provide the bread for the nation."

"“The nickname ‘Fifi’ is cut from Refiloe. So instead of seeing the whole of ‘Refiloe’, we just take too the ‘Fi’ and make it ‘Fifi’, so it’s a short way of saying ‘Refiloe’.”"

"“We realised that we achieved a dream and we are also giving an opportunity to other youngsters to be able to dream because we realised that with perseverance, hard work and discipline, nothing is impossible.”"

"“After my football career, I’m hoping to give back to the community. I’m hoping to probe into young talents, and I want to use my experiences that I’ve got in football to change people’s lives.”"

"“And those memories will stay with us, despite the defeat. We always want to play in the best stadiums. We always want to play in the best countries, and given that opportunity by Milan, we’ll always be grateful.”"

"“Playing at the San Siro has always been my dream, and I know it’s every footballer’s dream to play in such an iconic stadium. And despite the results that we got against Juventus, I think we played well as a team.""

"“Training in Manchester, I realized that playing football is what I want to do. It was where I realized my dream of being a footballer. And when I moved to Australia, where I played for Canberra United, it was my first professional contract. And with that I got an eye opener on how it is to be a professional, how to behave and how it is to play at the highest level.”"

"“With the game against Empoli, is also going to be a difficult one. We know they are also a good team like any other team in the league. So it’s a good chance for us to redeem ourselves as a team and to focus on the positives that we are going out there to get”"

"“In my opinion, in the previous games that we lost, especially also in the Derby, they didn’t go our way. We need to also give credit to Inter as they are a good team and also we are also an equally good team. So when we played and played to win, it’s just unfortunate that the results didn’t go our way.”"

"“Personally, I feel honored to be with Milan for the second season. We’ve been working as a group and I know the efforts that the technical team has put in and the task that they have in the team. And I feel very blessed to be a part of Milan also in the second half of the season.”"

"And you should always want to have more, wanting to be the best. You should always want to improve yourself, because it doesn't come naturally."

"To reach the top is easy, but staying there is hard. You have to keep working hard while also taking care of yourself."

"Your freedom is different. People are watching you without you having any idea that people are watching you."

"The most important thing is that little kids, little girls have a dream they can accomplish now."