Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that.

When I was growing up, I played a lot of soccer. I always wanted to be a good soccer player.

Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

Every club he's been to has had great injury crises. Every club. And it's always hamstrings.

Our lives are quite boring. I spend a lot of time watching Coronation Street and Eastenders.

Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.

I am an emotional person, and soccer is sheer emotion. For me, it is the best way to unwind.

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

It gets like this in Liverpool when you're on the ferry and the sun reflects off the Mersey.

Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.

The philosophy of a lot of European teams, even in home matches, is not to give a goal away.

Ten years ago, the level was nowhere near what it is today. (on soccer in the United States)

If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.

I'm a softball player. I'm a soccer player. I played tennis every day. I love being outside.

My position is this – street soccer is the most natural educational system that can be found

We must become Icelanders in soccer, Israelis in defending our land, Japanese in technology.

I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.

Drogba is a fighter. He is the kind of player I would say 'With you I could go to every war.'

Some [soccer] players suffer four or five fatal injuries per game. That's how tough they are.

When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started...

Germany are a very difficult team to play... they have eleven internationals out there today.

Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.

We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don't need to just play soccer.

I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

When I first met him [David Beckham] I didn't know whether to shake his hand or lick his face.

If you're going to be a footballer, be a great one.If you're going to have a dream, dream big.

The fans have played a massive part in getting us to where we are, but the job's not finished.

There is no change in the top six of division 2, except that Leeds have moved into the top six

I played basketball; I ran track and also played soccer. I think that I am naturally athletic.

My dad played in the National Soccer League in Australia and also played football in Malaysia.

As an early teen, soccer is the number one thing that you do - and I wasn't very good at that.

I had said I didn't mind which shirt I played in, but coming from Diego, № 10 is very special.

I don't run on the treadmill, because there's no treadmill moving for you on the soccer field.

Billy Gilbert hit a kamikaze back pass which Justin Fashinu pounced on like a black Frank Bruno

I think soccer in America is growing exponentially, and it's just going to keep getting bigger.

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

The match has become quite unpredictable, but it still looks as though Arsenal will win the cup

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.

When they used to come to Tottenham we'd play Who's Gonna Drive You Home? Just to wind them up.

Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more.

You know, in ten years you're gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?

The only way we will be going to Europe is if the club splash out and take us all to EuroDisney.

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

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