Freddy Adu Quotes

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

I'm not worried. My time will come.

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.

When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta be creative, you gotta let your talent take over.

A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.

You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play.

I play a lot of Playstation, and always trying to look pretty for the girls.

I haven't done anything yet, but I want to be the best in the world.

I'm very young. This gives me a perfect opportunity to play for a good team and be close to home, to grow as a player. (on signing for D.C. United)

I've got a long way to go. I'm not in a hurry.

A lot of players in Europe aren't as tall as the other guys, so they have to be stocky to physically compete.

I would love to play for Real Madrid. And I want to win a World Cup for the U.S. so bad. When the women won it, everybody went crazy. I would love to be part of something like that.

If you're good enough, you're old enough.

It doesn't matter what size you are. It matters how big your heart is and how smart you are.

Nothing has been given to me.

I need to go play football. I don't care about anything else.

If they asked me, I would have to say no. I made up my mind to play for the United States some day and I'm sticking to it. (on playing for Ghana)

There are some casual fans who think you're going to dominate a game, be magic, score 10 goals. Even if you dominate a game, you'll only score two or three goals.

Once your name gets out, people just want to crack you.

I need more time to develop as a player and as a person.

My image is very important to me. I want to bring a good face to my family. That's the way I've been raised.

Sometimes I even amaze myself, and sometimes I do things that make me want to punch myself in the face.

That's the dream. Being on the U.S. National team and winning the World Cup. I'll take the win anyway I can get it.

I want to be good at what I do, obviously, and to do that I need to keep my head straight.

I couldn't ask for a better life.

I wanted to get us a place of our own with a little bit more space. The kitchen is just huge, because my mom... lives there, man, and she loves being in the kitchen.

It's not easy when you come in as the highest-paid player and you're 14.

It's awesome where I am right now. It's a lot of people's dream. I'm going to take full advantage of it.

I feel the pressure but I embrace it. Whatever I have to do to make the sport catch on to other people, I'll do it.

I do stuff that I don't even know I can do sometimes.

Sometimes I feel like my childhood has been taken away from me just a tiny bit. But if you want to achieve your goals, you have to sacrifice some things.

When I'm out on the field, I'm not scared of anyone.

This is unbelievable to me. I always wanted to be famous, be the best, but I didn't think it would be like this.

My only real job is to play well and do my job on the field. If I do that, all the other stuff will take care of itself.

I need to have the ball at my feet. That's when I know anything is possible.

It helps to have someone in the same boat as you... There's a lot of pressure, so it helps to have someone who's also young and famous and has a lot of pressure to succeed.

Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I'm right on track.

I just want to go in with the right attitude and from Day 1 make a difference.

When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta' be creative, you gotta' let your talent take over.