If they asked me, I would have to say no. I made up my mind to play for the United States some day and I'm sticking to it. (on playing for Ghana)

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)

I met Baba Yaga at the end of childhood – past pigtails and fairytales, but not quite ready to give up on make-believe.

I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.

Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.

The World Cup is a truly international event.

Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?

It was my intent all along to write a nonjudgmental narrative of Bush's presidency. Along the way, a number of liberal friends of mine expressed disgust that I would spend time on such an endeavor.

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.