I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.
I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.
Mind you, I've been here during the bad times too - one year we came second.
When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.
Once, I had to drive Oliver to soccer, was ten minutes late, and learned that there had apparently been a misprint in the Bible on the Ten Commandments thing: Thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not be late to soccer. My father was so pissed, I practically had to get the lightning bolt surgically removed from my back.
I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me.
The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that?
The one thing that I really dislike, is being alone.
I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun.
Anyone who sacrifices his dreams to reality is forever beaten.
One is never 100 per cent motivated. In winter, when it's raining and you have to go and play a small team in the north, I won't reveal what passes through your mind when you're getting out of the bus.
I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.
You will go through tough times, it's about getting through them.
I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.
. . . let's talk about soccer scores. There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency and scoreless sports ties are boring.
Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together.
I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.
I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again.
International soccer has been a big part of my love for the sport. I love the Men's National Team. I can say that they're my favorite sports team.
