A biography for DeAndre Yedlinhasn’t been written yet.
“Nobody wants to look stupid by celebrating on offside goal.”
“I'm an attacking full-back.”
“My grandfather, my grandmother especially, I have a whole family of activists, they've always told me to stand up for what I believe in.”
“I was fortunate to be raised in Seattle, which was amazing, but that doesn't take away from the fact I was still a black kid growing up in America.”
“I think I just have the mentality that I'm always hungry.”
“There's no amount of money that can make me shut up about something I think is wrong.”
“A lot of people don't realise how mentally tough the Premier League is.”
“There are things you have to look at with those world-class players, but at the end of the day, they're not superheroes. They're still human.”
“Competition all over the field is great.”
“I think in some ways it makes me feel uncomfortable, just getting a bunch of attention. I'd rather just stay chill and kind of lay low.”
“I like to attack obviously.”
“I'm really trying to work on my defensive positioning.”
“As a wing back, when you get the ball wide, you usually don't have any help out wide. You have to be pretty good on your own out there.”
“I think I have kind of have the same mind-set that Kanye West has. He just likes to do his thing.”
“I think every player aspires to challenge themselves against the very best and that's what I'm hoping to do.”
“If I had grown earlier, maybe I would have stuck with football. Maybe. But I was just too small. I was quick, I could outrun people, but if anyone ever got a hand on me, I was done.”
“I grew up with very strong family support. My grandparents raised me, and my uncle sort of played that father-figure role in my life.”
“As a young black American you become desensitised to it, it's just like 'oh, another guy, another kid died today.' That's so, so sad cos we are talking about human life, the most sacred thing we have.”
“I'm able to travel all over the world to play and do something that I love. That's not something that a lot of people get to do.”