It has been so long since Liverpool won the title, I was a 12-year-old Everton fan the last time it happened.
I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.
Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.
Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.
The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer
What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike.
That goal surprised most people, least of all myself
I would just as likely be doing soccer practice as filming commercials.
The game must have been past my bed-time.
I didn't know that you could race your bike until after college. I didn't know anything about cycling except that I rode my bike from class to class or to my friend's house. But here I am an athlete, I ran, I played soccer, I swam and people are riding their bikes and racing them? I had never seen a bike race.
You can have the top stars to bring the attention, you can have the best stadium, you can have the best facilities, you can have the most beautiful project in terms of marketing and all this kind of thing. But if you don't win. . . All the work these people are doing is forgotten.
Everyone has to remember, I've always said that soccer is my number-one sport.
I´d read fantasy if they had simple names like Jane and Bob from Wagga," I say. "Why does it have to be Tehrana and Bihaad from the World of Sceehina?" Jimmy looks at my mother and rolls his eyes. "No wonder they call her bimbo behind her back. " And my mum laughs. And because of that, Mark Viduka, the soccer player, stops being my brothers hero, and Luca and Pinocchio run after Jimmy like he´s their idol.
David James is a cretin.
We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them.
If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.
Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players.
There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.
Do you know who I am? Why, have you forgotten?