Top 35 Freddy Adu Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m not worried. My time will come.”

— Freddy Adu

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2. “I’ve got a long way to go. I’m not in a hurry.”

— Freddy Adu

3. “It doesn’t matter what size you are. It matters how big your heart is and how smart you are.”

— Freddy Adu

4. “If you’re good enough, you’re old enough.”

— Freddy Adu

5. “I haven’t done anything yet, but I want to be the best in the world.”

— Freddy Adu

6. “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.”

— Freddy Adu

7. “Nothing has been given to me.”

— Freddy Adu

8. “I couldn’t ask for a better life.”

— Freddy Adu

9. “Sometimes I even amaze myself, and sometimes I do things that make me want to punch myself in the face.”

— Freddy Adu

10. “When I’m out on the field, I’m not scared of anyone.”

— Freddy Adu

11. “Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I’m right on track.”

— Freddy Adu

12. “It’s awesome where I am right now. It’s a lot of people’s dream. I’m going to take full advantage of it.”

— Freddy Adu

13. “I don’t know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I’ve been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I’m excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all.”

— Freddy Adu

14. “I need to have the ball at my feet. That’s when I know anything is possible.”

— Freddy Adu

15. “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.”

— Freddy Adu

16. “You can’t do anything to help your team win when you don’t play.”

— Freddy Adu

17. “A lot of players in Europe aren’t as tall as the other guys, so they have to be stocky to physically compete.”

— Freddy Adu

18. “There are some casual fans who think you’re going to dominate a game, be magic, score 10 goals. Even if you dominate a game, you’ll only score two or three goals.”

— Freddy Adu

19. “I feel the pressure but I embrace it. Whatever I have to do to make the sport catch on to other people, I’ll do it.”

— Freddy Adu

20. “Sometimes I feel like my childhood has been taken away from me just a tiny bit. But if you want to achieve your goals, you have to sacrifice some things.”

— Freddy Adu

21. “This is unbelievable to me. I always wanted to be famous, be the best, but I didn’t think it would be like this.”

— Freddy Adu

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

— Freddy Adu

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

— Freddy Adu

24. “My only real job is to play well and do my job on the field. If I do that, all the other stuff will take care of itself.”

— Freddy Adu

25. “I want to be good at what I do, obviously, and to do that I need to keep my head straight.”

— Freddy Adu

26. “I need to go play football. I don’t care about anything else.”

— Freddy Adu

27. “I need more time to develop as a player and as a person.”

— Freddy Adu

28. “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.”

— Freddy Adu

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29. “Once your name gets out, people just want to crack you.”

— Freddy Adu

30. “It’s not easy when you come in as the highest-paid player and you’re 14.”

— Freddy Adu

31. “I need to be in a stable environment right now in my career. What I mean by that is a place where I can play and not have too much pressure on me and a place I can develop. Monaco wanted me and did whatever they could to get me so I feel very very good about that.”

— Freddy Adu

32. “I do stuff that I don’t even know I can do sometimes.”

— Freddy Adu

33. “It’s frustrating at times when you think you’ve earned a chance to play on the field and you’re over there sitting on the bench. That’s not the kind of player I am. I’m the kind of player who wants to be out there on the field and needs to contribute every minute of every game.”

— Freddy Adu

34. “My image is very important to me. I want to bring a good face to my family. That’s the way I’ve been raised.”

— Freddy Adu

35. “I’m just trying to do whatever is asked of me. I’ve been thrown into many different positions. Sometimes I’m on the left. Sometimes I’m in the middle. Sometimes I’m up top. So you always have to be prepared. I’m learning a lot so hopefully I can keep getting better and better.”

— Freddy Adu

36. “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.”

— Freddy Adu