I just want to go in with the right attitude and from Day 1 make a difference.

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

I'm not worried. My time will come.

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.

When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta be creative, you gotta let your talent take over.

A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.

You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play.

I haven't done anything yet, but I want to be the best in the world.

I play a lot of Playstation, and always trying to look pretty for the girls.

I'm very young. This gives me a perfect opportunity to play for a good team and be close to home, to grow as a player. (on signing for D.C. United)

Sometimes doing the right thing does take more courage, but the feeling it gives you deep inside makes it worth it.

She is a wild, tangled forest with temples and treasures concealed within.

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

A prayer is directed by a supplicant toward someone/something powerful who can grant a favor, and by putting daughters in that position, you place them in the position of power.

All things are possible to one who believes.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.

As your captain, I'm going to push you to not fall back on defense, but to play offense, and to play our match -- the Gospel, together.

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.

May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.