For the average person walking down the street, they don't even know a women's soccer league exists in this country.

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

You can't obviously predict the future, but I am a fan of the United States and soccer over there continues to grow.

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

I tried to nutmeg him. It never came off and he gave me a slap on the back of the head and told me to start behaving

I was glad to watch the soccer because it helps my tennis game, realize maybe they're just rooting for the underdog.

Baseball is the biggest sport in Japan, then soccer, and basketball is... People don't really care about basketball.

I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made.

Soccer is the most difficult business that we're in, because one day you're on top, and the next day you're very low.

I played street soccer; that's where I started. If you look at South America, that's why they have technical players.

I will have to make tactical decisions, technical decisions and emotional decisions. This time it was a tactical one.

I was always taught as a kid if you do something, do it right. If not, go do something else. For me, soccer was life.

I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.

All three of my kids play soccer. Each one of them started from the time they were about 5 or 6, and we just love it.

The last time I was charged by the FA they had a murder lawyer in against me, so it's going to be a hard case to win.

There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup.

I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.

Before, I said that they were maybe the best supporters in England. Now maybe they are the best supporters in Europe.

The demographics of this country are changing. And the people coming to this country are soccer fans, not hockey fans.

Due to the NFL lockout, I'm excited to be able to follow my childhood dream of playing for a Major League Soccer team.

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

I'm being told I've become an inspiration to a lot of young soccer players in Edmonton and to me, that's just awesome.

While I'm more of a soccer and tennis fan myself, I still enjoying catching some football games when I get the chance.

I've always thought it would be interesting to give insight on soccer because I have a lot of experience in my career.

I want young girls to dream about being professional soccer players instead of just watching the boys go out and play.

I always thought I was going to be a soccer player, get a scholarship to college, and then join the U.S. women's team.

If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.

Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.

I support building a soccer stadium in the District of Columbia, and I support investing public dollars to get it done.

Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.

My wish is that soccer in the U.S. become on the same level like the Premier League, Spanish league, or the Bundesliga.

I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine.

Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war.

I really like my legs because I've worked hard for them. With soccer, that's the one thing you're working all the time.

It had not crossed my mind, but maybe it has Mourinho's because that is what Chelsea did two seasons ago to Xabi Alonso.

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.

Youth soccer is big business. If I don't win, it doesn't matter if I'm developing players, my business is going to hell.

Soccer was my first love, and I enjoyed playing on the left wing until a groin injury forced me out of the game in 2008.

I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and family.

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

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

I hate sports. My reaction to the ball is this [kicks soccer ball] Don't kick it back to me. I don't wanna see it again.

You can't say my team aren't winners. They've proved that by finishing fourth, third and second in the last three years.

I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.

I was a pretty good soccer player, but it just wasn't for me. I thrive in the intensified atmosphere on a football field.

I did choir, soccer, some theater. The only weird thing about my life was that I was playing honky-tonks on the weekends.

I hope Stoke stay up this season, and stay up for long enough so that they can get enough money and buy some footballers.

People just assume, over the years, that soccer players are not too intelligent. As with most assumptions, they're wrong.

Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.

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