Freddy Adu Quotes

I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.

I will never again listen to the advice of the French … nor of anyone except the British Government.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

If I'm ready to play, I want to play.

If Spurs ever came back in me for me, I'd say no.

There's Kenyan guys who last year or two years ago were running for Kenya, and then they switched to Qatar and Bahrain and other countries. Yes, I do have a problem with that.

I do feel my African side, but I've always wanted to play for Germany. Ghana did contact me, but I told them and my dad that I was sure I wanted to play for Germany.

The opportunity beckoned me to play for England, but I chose Nigeria because it has always been my ambition to play for the Super Eagles.

England have never wanted me at underage level; it's always been Ireland.

If I went to Spain and lived there for five years, I'm not going to play for Spain. For me an English player should play for England, really.

We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.

When you play chess alone it's always your move.

I remember when I read Walter, for example, six years ago now, I said, "This is the role for me." I said that to my family. There was something there that I knew was absolutely right, and that was just based on the character. That's when gut instinct comes into play. I know there are certain things I won't do.

Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.

I love America. I wanted to play golf.

I ask of each Mason, of each member, of each brother, that he shall remember ever that there is upon him a peculiar obligation to show himself in every respect a good citizen; for after all, the way he can best do his duty by the ancient order to which he belongs is by reflecting credit upon that order by way in which he performs his duty as a citizen of the United States.

Maybe one small regret is that I never got to play with Paul Scholes - but I was never going to leave Barcelona and he was never going to leave Manchester United.

Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and . . . you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother.

Standing up for America, investing in America, will pay off.

The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

Of late, attempts have been made in the USA - at a high level and in a rather cynical form - to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to play basketball.

I'm an American. You can't go on where you were born. If you do then John McEnroe would be a German.

If every man was as true to his country as he was to his wife, we'd be in a lot of trouble.