My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.
I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.
He has many qualities as a prince, but he is not a surgeon.
Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they're trying to promote it. At the end of the day it's about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play.
Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.
And now International Soccer Special, Manchester United v Southampton
Playing college soccer was going to be the top of my athletic feats. I wasn't going to the Olympics. I was a decent player, but it's because of hard work, not because I was Freddy Adu. I wouldn't have a medal from the Olympics if I wasn't in a chair. I wouldn't have gone to the Olympics and experienced the whole atmosphere.
I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.
Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.
And that's Aston Villa's first league goal since their last one.
A player who dives and wins a penalty in Portugal, or Spain or Italy is considered clever, experienced, cunning, someone who understands the game. In England a player who wins a penalty like that is a cheat.
If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.
The Uruguayans are losing no time in making a meal around the referee.
Sure we have skilled players, but the biggest thing might just be that we are so well conditioned and how we can play for 90 minutes at a high tempo which is needed in soccer at an international level.
On Platini's presidential watch. . . he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent.
Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.
I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my specialty, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there's every reason to think I can do it.
It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.
I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.
The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league. (on Major League Soccer)
