#lay

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

#balls #could #door #get #knocking

What do I have to cheat for? I've always been playing against people older than me anyways. So what do I have to cheat for? ↗

— Freddy Adu

#always #anyways #been #cheat #i

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

#ball #creative #get #got #gotta

My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#actually #after #before #brushed #chicago

Well, you know, I've bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same tournaments year after year and we go back to the same place and many times the seats have been full and that has meant the world to me for sure. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#back #been #bonded #full #go

I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#certain #certain way #door #foot #get

I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success. ↗

— Greg Akcelrod

#ball player #become #everything #football #football player

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth. ↗

— Edward Albee

#fact #fiction #into #play #truth

What we play is life. ↗

— Louis Armstrong

#play

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?' ↗

— Mitch Albom

#always #characters #column #core #find