Freddy Adu Quotes (47 Quotes)

I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right.

I see myself in a World Cup final for the U.S.A., playing against a top-notch team everyone picks to winand we just come out and blast them. One day when Im holding that trophy, someones gonna take a picture. Oh, man. That is going to be huge.

I got player of the week that week, and the next week I'm sitting on the bench, ... And I'm just like, 'What is going on here' It's one of those things where you don't understand what's going on, but you've got to swallow your pride and be a team player.

Freddy was sometimes too deep, sometimes too far away. It's our decision to make, and we decided to go this way. ... We pretty much beat ourselves. We were fine, we played fine and then one mistake, two mistakes, we're right out again.

Obviously I was disappointed because I always want to start. But my job today was to come in and make an impact, and I feel I did that. We got the win that's what is important.

The contract is for six years. We'll see after that. It has always been a dream of mine to play in the British Premier League for a team like Manchester United.

I was very excited, I just played my game. It's a lot faster at the international level. It took me a week in camp to get used to the pace. I know my teammates' tendencies now, so it will be easier to play with them.

Bruce said he's going to be monitoring my every move. I've just got to work hard and keep improving and bring that to D.C. United. If I do that, Bruce is watching, and he might give me that last shot to go in and prove something.

It will be a dream come true. I have been waiting for that. It is something that when I was doing interviews a couple years ago I said that was one of my goals is make this World Cup Team, not the 2010 World Cup Team, so if I am able to do that that would mean a lot to me and my family.

I can't wait to get on the field and start playing,

I've been in this league for two years, and it's been the same, ... I love the guys on this team. I don't want to leave. ... I'm not saying that I'm going to leave, but I always have to look ahead and see what the best situation is.

We knew we were due to just explode and have a lot of goals in one of these games sometime soon. It's a really good feeling.

I've been waiting for it for a long time and it finally comes. I was very excited.

Nothing has been given to me.

That's the kind of thing that's told to me a lot, ... My mom advises me on that all the time, so I've got to watch out for it.

We wish we would have gotten the three points, but it was slow start from us. I guess there were a lot of nerves. We settled down in the second half and played our game. It was a great comeback.

Mozart started when he was five years old. If you are good, you are good. God gave Freddy the gift to play soccer. If he is prepared mentally and physically, nobody will stop him.

I was just terrible the first half of the season. I was just no good, and I just look back and I laugh at myself. What was I doing

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. Plus it's easier because I don't have to worry about her motives.

Christian has a free role to do whatever, ... I didn't have that before, but now, my teammates and my coaches allow me to have that role. So I should be able to do some of the same things as Christian did, which is movement off the ball and always being available for the ball at my feet and running at people. I might be able to do it with a little more speed.

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

Coach Peter Nowak said at halftime that we're going to win this game by a lot of goals, ... Everybody was like, 'There you go, let's just go out there and play.'

I love the guys on this team. I dont want to leave. Im not saying I am going to leave -- Im not -- but you always have to look ahead and see what the best situation is for yourself first.

I'm voted player of the week one week and the next I'm sitting on the bench. It becomes very tempting to look ahead and I'm doing that right now. I have to make the best decision for myself.

I'm just trying to do whatever is asked of me. I've been thrown into many different positions. Sometimes I'm on the left. Sometimes I'm in the middle. Sometimes I'm up top. So you always have to be prepared. I'm learning a lot so hopefully I can keep getting better and better.

Now I'm up to the point where there's no more excuses, pretty much. I've got to go out there and contribute every time. Definitely, I want to play more this year.

I'm glad to be coming back to D.C. United. I don't want to go anywhere else. I get the best of both worlds, getting to live at home and play for the best franchise in MLS.

Whenever you get the chance to represent your country in a World Cup, it's a great honor. It's a chance to show the world what you've got. I'm looking forward to it. I do wish, though, that I would be able to stay here and play with D.C. a little bit more, because this is an important stretch for us right now.

Its frustrating at times when you think youve earned a chance to play on the field and youre over there sitting on the bench. Thats not the kind of player I am, ... Im the kind of player who wants to be out there on the field and needs to contribute every minute of every game.

I think I could be an impact player this season, ... When I'm out on the field, I'm not scared of anyone. I'm just going to move the ball -- boom-boom , one-touch, two-touch -- and when the right time comes and I've got somebody one-on-one, I'll take him. But I'm not always going to have the greatest game of my life. There's going to be games when I absolutely suck. That happens to everybody. So it'll be up to me to regroup and try to find a way to bounce back.

I'm going to go in, keep my mouth shut and just listen to the guys, ... I have to earn the respect of my teammates and coaches, and I'm going to do whatever it takes to earn that respect.

It's not every day you get a guy like Ken Griffey Jr. coming into your stadium and you can talk to him, ... I'm seizing the opportunity.

He is not playing for me. He is playing for the team and this organization. Were not going to put anyone above the team.

That's definitely killed my chances, ... Bruce has said it a million times that he's not going to bring anybody in that's not playing regularly for his club team.

Yes. MLS has a chance. I want to play professional ball as soon as possible, and I want to be close to my family too. So that could play a key role in my decision.

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.

I'm in awe right now, ... I've been waiting for this moment for a long time.

I mean, when you've got guys like Ken Griffey Jr. in our stadium, in our locker room, I've got to talk to them. I'm just seizing the opportunity.

I've been waiting for this moment for the longest time and it's finally here, ... I just want to get out there and play and have fun. After all, when I'm on the soccer field, that's when I'm at my happiest.

He's learning how to deal with rough patches. We go through tough spells, and it's up to you to take something out of it, ... Some people take the good out of it, some people just fall off the radar. I've taken something good out of it, and I really feel

This was huge for the morale of the team. The way we lost the last couple of games was just 'Ouch' That would just destroy anybody on any team, but not D.C. United. These guys have so much confidence that nothing gets us down, so we just came out and took it to them.

It becomes very, very, very, very tempting to look ahead, and as a matter of fact I am doing that right now, ... I always have to make the best decision for myself first, and, you know, I'm just looking into things right now, so we'll see what happens at the end of this season and we'll see where my family and myself are headed.

It's hard to find minutes on the field, ... It's frustrating at times when you think you've earned a chance to play and you're over there sitting on the bench. That's not the kind of player I am. I'm the kind of player who wants to be out there. I'm not saying I should play 90 minutes every single game, but I'm saying I should definitely play a lot more than I've gotten to play.

I still hang out with my friends on the weekend until 1230 or 1 in the morning.

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.

It's been a great experience. You come in here hoping to get better as time goes on and that's exactly what I'm doing. The better you get the more looks you're going to get from the coach.

didn't want me that deep. He said he needed me up top to get some offense.