Clint Dempsey Quotes

I think it just boils down to right place, right time, and just being able to break them big fights. Maybe it wasn't England's time, and right now, I feel like it's England's time.

Just gotta try to have fun. It's a business. You just gotta come out there and play hard because you never know when another player might take your spot.

There are no guarantees getting into an England squad: there's so many unbelievable players.

There's a lot of good midfielders all desperate to play for their country and all I can do when I get called up is prove that I deserve to be there.

I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Fans, especially ours, demand championships. That's what we're striving for.

I don't take anything for granted. There are 500 other girls right behind me. And I know that, because I was one of them.

You have to understand that in this league, we are all one play removed from being the starter or from being the backup, in any game.

Football is my passion, and who knows where I will play in the future - you cannot foresee that.

The pressure of the World Series and the playoffs, it gets to you. But I hope I feel like that every year. Because hopefully we're playing into November every year.

If you want to be a big player and play for a big club, you have to deal with the pressure.

There were rumors in the air that all these different clubs were looking at me but I didn't know which specific clubs. No one told me anything. And then I got a message: 'Bayern Munich want to meet you.' I was like: 'Oh my god. Really?' It was both exciting and scary. I just had to prove to myself that I could compete at this level.

I know how quickly things can change in football, and I am only where I am because someone else lost their place.

When you get to the big games you never know when you are going to be back so you've got to try as best as you can to take advantage of those opportunities.

At all big clubs, there is pressure. They all want to win and expect to win.

Everything is possible at any one competition.

I need to be competing. Coaching is good, but I like to be in the fire.

You want to play in big games.

What was scaring me was if we lost, I didn't know how I'd play cricket again. This was such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a World Cup final at Lord's.

There's always competition in the national team.

You want to play in the big games, you want to play for a big club and to play with pressure.

We can't take quarters, minutes, plays off.

I'd much rather be in this position where people might be talking about me as a contender than turning up and sort of being a no-show.

I'm always trying to win my place back in the national team.