- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People go out of their way to show the love and respect for me. It is very gratifying.
- Forgiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if I found soccer or if soccer found me. Especially because when I was younger, I was doing it, in a lot of ways, because I wanted the attention of my mom and dad.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
My teammates have put me in all different kinds of positions to score goals, and I can't say it enough, and I really through and through believe it in my heart that I'm only as good as my teammates allow me to be.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a unique ability to predict the flight of the ball, and my teammates have a unique ability to find me.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any little touch a defender can make on me when I'm in the air literally moves me. On the ground, I can use my muscle, but in the air, it's harder to fight that off.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a pretty early age, my mother realized that I was a little bit more gifted and talented than my own age group. So, she moved me over to play with the boys' travel soccer team when I was about 11 years old.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents, they're the kind of people that didn't want me to get a big head, so they just kept challenging me and challenging me.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020