Ellyse Perry

So it's changed a lot.

And as I said, I think from that perspective, like the timing, I had no control over that and the luck, I guess, of just walking into the team at that point in time and then having...

The last 20 years to sort of be a part of this amazing growth and development and to have kind of gone along with that has been phenomenal.

I guess I'm never really set out to achieve anything outcome based.

Um, I absolutely love a challenge and I love the sense of being involved in something and, um, you know, pushing yourself towards something.

Um, you know, and as I said, like, I guess from what mom said to me when I was quite young, just stepping up and, and starting and having a crack.

Um, the outcomes from those, I guess, like when you step back and start listing them off, um,

I'm kind of like, oh, I don't really – that doesn't feel quite real.

Like, those things kind of don't really feel like the tangible part of, like, my involvement.

Like, I think it's the stuff in the moment, like the things you remember where –

You're under lots of pressure or someone did something amazing, a teammate, or you connected in a way or you went away to this amazing place and had all these challenges, but you came out in the end and you were successful.

I think those are the things that like I remember or feel fulfilled by and sort of feel like me.

I guess like the list of accolades or achievements are just kind of like, I don't know, a side bio that doesn't really like identify anything about me.

Oh, I still don't know if I was trying to score or cross it.

I love that.

So I feel like the universe took care of that and it ended up going in the back of the net.

Well, I don't think I can explain that because, for example, at training, I would have tried to kick a ball like that.

20 times, and maybe in those 20 times, like, once or twice it went where I intended it to.

So, like, how do you explain that in that particular moment, in that match, under those circumstances, it just happened to go in?

And, like, part of that is, yeah, I've worked hard to put myself in that position.