Quotes About Dedication

When I was growing up, I played a lot of soccer. I always wanted to be a good soccer player.

I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.

I've always wanted to become a professional soccer player.

I want to know I made women's soccer better than it was when I came into it.

As a professional soccer player, I need to get touches on the ball every day, and obviously it's a lot easier to do that with a team than to motivate yourself to do it by yourself.

I was on the math team, and I was on the soccer team.

I'm a big advocate of starting soccer young and always having the ball at your foot, but that's because I didn't do that. If I'd focused more on that when I was a kid, it would've been so helpful. It took me, like, halfway through college to feel comfortable with the ball.

My dad has been to every soccer game that I've played in, both at the amateur level and at the professional level, and he always had great things to say whether we won or we lost, whether I felt great or not so great.

My dad has always played and coached, so that's what I knew. I played other sports but always turned toward soccer and had the same love for it as my father. They never forced me to play; I always wanted to. I was always around it.

Our people love soccer more than they do in Brazil.

Soccer was actually my first love, but eventually, basketball took that over.

I've played soccer since I was five.

I grew up in an athletic family. My dad played and my brother currently plays professional soccer, so I'm athletic.

What we are missing over here is the life of soccer.

I want to be involved in soccer some way.

In Europe, it's different - you eat soccer, you breathe soccer, you drink soccer. Everything is about soccer.

I would just as likely be doing soccer practice as filming commercials.

I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game.

Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'

I would love being the soccer mom.

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.

I started playing soccer at age 6 and played both outfield and goalie. Back then, no one wanted to go on goalie - coaches would make deals with me so I'd do it. It's a tough position as a kid.

I was hell-bent on being a soccer player all through junior high and high school.

I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.