Athlete Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right.

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

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.

I couldn't ask for a better life.

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 teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch... passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it's just a mindset you need to go into the game with.

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.

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.

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

You could tell that America was gearing up for war.

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.

Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.

In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.

I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.