Vincent Janssen Quotes

My talent in playing football was not the highest but I was very hard-working, interested to learn and get better, and this focus made me better and better.

I love practice, I love hitting, I love the game.

Having been a cheerleader, I know all too well what these girls give up to join forces and compete.

I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day.

There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.

My father pushed me to be a footballer. At every opportunity, he took me with him to play football. He came with me to matches.

I love this game. When I step on the court I'm going to compete. That's one of the reasons I work hard every day.

To me, it's just another game of football - 11 players, a grass pitch. Regardless what shirt I have on, it's important you win the game, and I'm competitive as anyone, and I want to win every game, whether it's a Sunday league game, a five-a-side tournament, or a World Cup qualifier.

I have so much respect for this game and the process that goes into playing at a high level.

I learned to respect the coach and to do everything within my power to show that I should be the one playing. That's exactly what I did during my three years under Mourinho.

At Juve you always have to go onto the field ready to give your best.

Football is something I would never give up on, whether I ended up playing professional or in a Sunday league team.

I give my best every day in training and in games; this is the only way that I know how to play football.

If I wasn't aiming to break into the Arsenal first team, that wouldn't be the correct mindset.

That's football. It's like in any walk of life: you get some people who are going to try more than others.

Football is everything, mind, heart, talent.

You've got to go out there and play your best. It's about what you do on the football field.

I know what is important. When I go to the pitch, I cannot laugh; I respect the other players. I try my best and put my passion inside the game.

I just know that I love football, and when I'm on the pitch, I want to win.

Within the girl's game, you have to be motivated to be part of this sport.

My life revolves around the ball.

As a footballer, you always want to win.

As long as I am playing football, I am prepared to play wherever I have to.

Our daily work ethic - that need to always do better and top our last performance - is what makes USWNT football players who we are.

To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.