Soccer Expectations Quotes

The fact is, as all we strikers know, we tend to get judged just on the number of goals.

I know some people expected me to be a Ballon d'Or winner.

In football in this country, we want to be able to check off every box of a soccer player. You have to be good at this and this and this. Because of our society, and the way that I grew up in soccer, I had to become well-rounded-but I also cherished the parts of me that made me special.

My dream was to become a big player in Europe. But most of the stars there are either from Europe or places like Brazil and Argentina. How many come from Edmonton, where you're only supposed to play hockey? None. So yeah, I had a lot of doubts. I wondered if I had gone as far as I could.

You simply can't judge a team's football from the country it comes from.

People expect you to dribble past 10 players and put the ball in the back of the net.

You know, when you are the Italian national team, all the time you need to win because for our history, it is important for us to try to win the World Cup.

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

Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I always had to hide my nationality when they were picking teams because, just by the look of me, they would think that I was a great soccer player.

I like to chip in with goals because I'm an attacking player, and that's what an attacking player should do.