You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.
Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war.
There has been lots of things said about me over the years. I am happy to comment on people's opinion in football I respect, but Tony Cascarino is a man I certainly do not respect, for a lot of reasons, and if I told you, you would be shocked. So the day I worry about Tony Cascarino will be a very sad day of my life.
Is the Pope Catholic. No I'm serious. I really need to know.
I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.
I was always taught as a kid if you do something, do it right. If not, go do something else. For me, soccer was life.
The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league. (on Major League Soccer)
The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to. We'd just make small talk, play soccer together. When something bothered me, I didn't talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that's just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.
Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it'.
How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But of course we are not allowed to know for sure. In close and direct imitation of his apartheid models, Selebi ensures that no statistics about crime may be published regularly in the press.
Facebook revealed that Ebola was the most popular Facebook topic in the U. S. this year, with the World Cup coming in sixth. So welcome to America, where even Ebola is more popular than soccer.
My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
I think that in any argument about right or wrong in football, a reference to Don Revie's Leeds United is the nuclear option. There is, quite simply, nowhere to go after that. There has never been a more horrible football team. The Leeds of the Seventies were found guilty, week in, week out, of crimes against humanity.
I think Charlie George was one of Arsenal's all time great players. A lot of people might not agree with that, but I personally do
Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.
The rules of soccer are very simple: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.
Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.
I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go to an audition, my friends would go to soccer practice and we'd all reconvene and hang out in our neighborhood. When I would book something, I would never tell my friends. Acting was just fun. I was a kid, I wasn't jaded.
What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.
Soccer was invented by man but perfected by women.
