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

I like working as a director most.

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

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

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

There's no common taste in this world.

Directing, writing, producing and starring is just too tough.

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

I had a dog I raised for many years. He was a Pekingese with big eyes and a flat face, very cute.

I think my English is bad.

I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way to relax myself.

I'm extremely busy and running around requires a lot of energy.

One very important element for me to make a movie is, it has to be unique and different from any other.

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.

To make a kung fu film is like a dream come true, because I'm a big fan of kung fu movies and I'm learning kung fu for a long time.

When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking.

Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need to find someone who is suitable for the role in the movie. That's always the main reason.

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.