Freddy Adu Quotes

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

  Freddy Adu

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Difference, Right

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Excited, Younger, Basically

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Myself, Promised

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fun, Creativity

• I couldn’t ask for a better life.

  Freddy Adu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better, Ask

• I don’t want to be one of those guys where I go there and wait a long time before I become a starter.

  Freddy Adu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Want, Wait

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Career, Develop, Good

• I mean, I couldn’t ask for a better life, man.

  Freddy Adu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better

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

  Freddy Adu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pretty, Trying

• I need to go play football. I don’t care about anything else.

  Freddy Adu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Anything, Play

• I wanted to get us a place of our own with a little bit more space. The kitchen is just huge, because my mom… lives there, man, and she loves being in the kitchen.

  Freddy Adu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wanted, Little

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Things, Happened

• I’m going to go in and play, because the most important thing is playing on the field and being able to contribute. I really am ready.

  Freddy Adu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Playing

• I’ve always been one of the youngest guys on the team. But now I’m one of the older guys, one of the more experienced guys, and I have to be more of a leader. The guys are looking up to me, asking me questions and looking at me to step up.

  Freddy Adu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Experienced, Questions

• It’s one of the best leagues in Europe in football. Benfica in my opinion is one of the top 10 biggest clubs in the world.

  Freddy Adu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Opinion, Biggest

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Game, Player, Chance

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Expectation, Track

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Trying, Play

• Obviously, I’m at the beginning of my career, contrary to what anyone else thinks. I’m 19 years old. In any other country, everywhere else, you’re a prospect. And that’s what I am right now in Europe. I’m a prospect. I’m not a seasoned veteran.

  Freddy Adu

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Obviously, Career, Thinks

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Talent, Creative

Freddy Adu (28)

Birth:	2nd June, 1989
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Football Player

About

Fredua Koranteng "Freddy" Adu was born in Tema, Ghana. He is a Ghanaian-born American soccer player who plays for the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the North American Soccer League. He plays primarily as an attacking midfielder, but he is also used as a winger or forward.

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