Quotes About Soccer

With the national team, we have these fans, people love of us, people come up to us in our cities, and they're like, 'We love you - what are you doing in Seattle?' And I'm like, 'I live here, and I've played here for the last five years.'

When I left the U.S., I sort of left that frustration and that pressure to make the national team behind me.

I want to thank my team mates in the national team and also at Dortmund. It is their work that helps me to score goals.

I always watch the national team games and am a big fan.

Being able to play at club level at a high level and then getting called into the national team, it's amazing.

It's been a dream of mine to play for the U.S. national team.

I don't put any extra pressure on myself for national team games.

I was 15 when I made my debut for the national team.

I played with the youth national team, I played in some CONCACAF games, and it's always physical; it's always intense.

Luis Suarez is one of the best players in the national team - and in the world, in fact.

I'm happy to play as a centre forward or a second striker, like in the national team with Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani.

I can look forward to that. Getting back over to Europe and playing at a little bit higher level, then hopefully becoming a leader for the national team.

It is a very, very difficult thing to get into the Brazil national team, so when you achieve that, it makes you really happy, and you want it to continue for as long as possible.

I want to be the top scorer of the league, take Everton back to the Champions League, and reach the Brazilian national team.

You go around the world, and you say, 'I'm the top scorer for the Argentina national team.' I liked that.

I've done a lot of great things playing for this country and this national team in the youth stage.

I saw Claude Makelele play in the French national team but before when he played at a club I didn't watch him a lot.

When I was growing up in Australia my dream was to play in Serie A and for the national team.

Mbappe always performs whether that's in Ligue 1, Champions League or with the France national team.

It's not easy to carry forward the national team because you have a whole country behind you. But I would be willing to take charge of the Argentina national team.

I've had the opportunity to play with Neymar on the national team. Now I'm playing alongside Messi. He's a different player, but he's the best player in the world.

I learned a lot from Zinedine Zidane with the national team.

When I was a kid, my big hero was the number 10 of Flamengo and not the number 10 of Santos. His name was Dida. We didn't have much knowledge about the championship in Sao Paolo or in the south of Brazil. We just knew about the championship in Rio because I am from there. But Pele played for the national team and was a hero.

Our national team is very unique in the way we want to play.