I played one year of competitive basketball, actually. I don’t remember what grade I was in, maybe middle school or something. I was the point guard – I was the smallest one always. I did my best; I thought I did pretty good. I was always a little bit better at soccer, so I had to make the decision.
Christian Pulisic
I played with the youth national team, I played in some CONCACAF games, and it’s always physical; it’s always intense.
Christian Pulisic
I put enough pressure on myself.
Christian Pulisic
I think – I hope – that we’re going to be able to build something here with U.S. Soccer, where it’s not just going to be about one lost match or one lost cycle or one lost team. It’s going to be about an entire country rallying around an entire sport in a way that lasts.
Christian Pulisic
I think any kid wants to get on the field as much as he can.
Christian Pulisic
I think it’s good to have competition.
Christian Pulisic
I think it’s normal to have competition once you get to the professional level.
Christian Pulisic
I think what we really want to do is to create a real soccer nation. We want to have kids really wanting to play the sport.
Christian Pulisic
I think, with soccer, you never really know what’s going to happen in your career – that’s the beauty of it.
Christian Pulisic
I try to focus on the next week and the next game every time, focus on what I’m doing right now and just to continue to improve every single day. If I do that, I should have a good future.
Christian Pulisic
I try to have an impact on every game, whether it’s by making runs or using quick moves to try to get by defenders or making a nice pass to help my team.
Christian Pulisic
I want to inspire kids, and yeah, if that helps with expansion teams – in the MLS or anything like that – but my main goal is just to inspire. Try and inspire our youth.
Christian Pulisic
I was always very small, so growing up, I was always getting kicked around. It was something I kind of grew up with.
Christian Pulisic
I was very young, but I just remember going to school every day in England, which I didn’t enjoy. Every day, as soon as the bell would ring, we would go out and be on this little – it looked like a basketball court, but it was a soccer court with goals and a hard floor.
Christian Pulisic
I was watching the 2014 World Cup, and I was playing with the U-17s, I think, at the time. I remember watching it in the summer, and I was like, ‘You know what? It’s a pretty crazy goal, but I want to be there in 2018.’
Christian Pulisic
If I can inspire kids to do what I do – want to become professional soccer players – then I think that that’s everything I want to do.
Christian Pulisic
If you want to be at the highest level, then you have to really work hard every day.
Christian Pulisic
I’m just trying to live in the moment and do the best I can for myself and for my teammates, and that’s all I can really focus on.
Christian Pulisic
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I’m not a prodigy – or a ‘wonderboy,’ as some have put it.
Christian Pulisic
I’m not super outgoing, but I think the biggest thing I can do is lead by example.
Christian Pulisic
I’m trying to become just more clinical in every situation, whether it’s the final pass, the final shot, or whatever it is.
Christian Pulisic
In my hometown, people I didn’t even know started to recognize me: ‘Oh, you’re that kid that’s doing well over there in Europe and with the national team!’
Christian Pulisic
In the U.S. system, too often the best player on an under-17 team will be treated like a ‘star’ – not having to work for the ball, being the focus of the offense at all times, etc. – at a time when they should be having to fight tooth and nail for their spot.
Christian Pulisic
It really does frustrate me when I watch MLS, and I see our best U-17 players – who, again, are so talented and so capable – being rostered… but then not being put on the field much to actually play. I watch that, and I just think about how I was given a chance… a real chance… and it changed my life.
Christian Pulisic
It’s always tough when you see a good player leave. It’s not easy.
Christian Pulisic
It’s been a dream of mine to play for the U.S. national team.
Christian Pulisic
It’s definitely one of my biggest passions – I played every day after school with all my friends from high school in Pennsylvania. They weren’t really soccer players, so we would play basketball all the time.
Christian Pulisic
It’s my biggest dream as a soccer player: I always wanted to play in the World Cup.
Christian Pulisic
I’ve already played against some of my biggest idols.
Christian Pulisic
I’ve always been hard on myself, so I expect so much out of myself that that pressure can be inspiring at time.
Christian Pulisic
I’ve always expected a lot out of myself, and it can be a good quality. But it can be bad at times, too.
Christian Pulisic