I want to be involved in soccer some way.

Keep enjoying it, and if you do that, then you are going to get better.

Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions.

I grew up in a great family.

It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.

Competition helps people figure it out.

I've been playing since I was eight years old.

I think competition is very important; it breeds many good things in a person.

It's not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team.

I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.

My goals are for the U.S. team to get to the second round of the World Cup and to win a championship here in the U.S. with my club team the Columbus Crew.

I want to be involved in soccer some way.

You prepare yourself by concentrating on what you have to do out on the field.

Put your head down and work as hard as you can because there is always someone better out there.

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.

Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.

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.

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

I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

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

What we are missing over here is the life of soccer.

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

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

There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

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.

By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply.

I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

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

If my soccer career were over, I would still come here because of the people. And despite the fact I've had to skip some school for National Team purposes, I am looking forward to holding that Carolina degree as soon as I can get my hands on it.

Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.

Over the last 10-15 years, you've seen soccer finally start to grow at a fast pace, start to get the recognition it deserves, and I think it has to do with all of the people who come to America from foreign countries.

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.

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

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

I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.

Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.

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

Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.

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

Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from.

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

But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.

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.

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.