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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.

I love soccer. That's all I ever watch. I'll watch it all day if I can. But I'm too bloody old to play now.

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

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.

I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch.

My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.

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 was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it.

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

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.

I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.

After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.

I love soccer; I want to be on the field.

I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment.

Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.

Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

In Europe, it's different - you eat soccer, you breathe soccer, you drink soccer. Everything is about soccer.

People have to pay a lot of money to play soccer here.