Alphonso Davies Quotes

I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me.

I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.

One day, I hope I can play in MLS.

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

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

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.

Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.

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.

If I can inspire kids to do what I do - want to become professional soccer players - then I think that that's everything I want to do.

At six years old, our son had friends who played soccer from 4 P.M. to 7 P.M., Monday through Friday. A six-year-old practicing as much as a Division I athlete.

I didn't know there was such a thing as professional soccer, but I knew that Brazil had a women's team that competed against other countries, and I wanted to be on that team.

All three of my kids play soccer. Each one of them started from the time they were about 5 or 6, and we just love it.

When you're a kid that's all you want to do, go out and play football.

I want to be involved in soccer some way.

My ambition is to play in the Premier League, like every player.

When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run - the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans - propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer.

When I started, when I was eight, I never thought I would make a career out of being a woman footballer.

Young Petr Cech was sports mad, football mad.

I always had a soccer ball with me. I could never stop. As young as I can remember, my dad was always throwing a soccer ball at me.

When I was little, I always loved scoring goals.

It's my biggest dream as a soccer player: I always wanted to play in the World Cup.

I have been playing soccer since I was about four years old. You always hope you can reach the top of the profession, that you can play in the big leagues and achieve all of the goals you hope to accomplish throughout your life.

I really didn't want to play basketball for the longest time, but I just wouldn't stop growing. But I always wanted to be a professional soccer player.

I liked soccer. I played it for two years.

Soccer is taken extremely seriously in Turkey.