Soccer Journey Quotes

When I was five, 10, 15 years old, I always dreamed of being in the best league in the world, playing with some of the best clubs.

When I went to Real Madrid, I was only 18 or 19 years old. It was my first year as a professional footballer. I was very young.

I was about five or six when I went to the little foundation camps. I got into the academy when I was nine, and I've gone through every age group since and into the first team.

I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.

I started to play at four years old. I went to Corinthians at nine years old. Then, it started to become more serious.

When I moved to Hull and I was playing against players in the Premier League, maybe I pinched myself then.

I used to dye my hair different colors and have crazy periods, especially early in my career when I played in Italy.

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

One day, I hope I can play in MLS.

I see myself going to play in the MLS, to discover something other than France.

I began by playing for the biggest club in the Lorraine region, went on to the biggest club in France and ended up with the biggest in the world.

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.

I was always reading about the Premier League. It has been a big dream and one that came true. But it is not the end of the dream; it is just starting.

Clearly, if you go abroad to a top club, it means one more step in your development.

I never saw myself as a women's footballer. Not when I was in my tiny village in Norway. Not when I was suffering in Germany. Not when I finally made it to Lyon.

I played three seasons when I was in MLS before I went to Europe, and every year, I was able to be selected for the All-Star, which was an honor.

If I'm destined to play in the MLS, I will.

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

The thing that made it so hard to get that call from Jill Ellis in 2015, letting me know I wouldn't be at the World Cup, was that I felt like I'd lost what I love most about putting on the U.S. kit: representation.

One day, I would like to play in Premier League. It would be a great experience.

I got a lot of games under my belt in the lower leagues, and I don't feel the Premier League or England is that much different.

I started playing with my dad, and then I started going to soccer schools in Sunderland and managed to get scouted from there.

I had wanted to play for Penarol since I was a boy. When I was young, I would go to their training ground, but at 18, I left Uruguay for Argentina, and my professional career started.

My first World Cup appearance remains fresh in my memory and what made it incredible was that I had made my first appearance for Nigeria just a year before.

The Bundesliga is the league that made me, and it changed my life.