We scored a goal and defended until the end with great spirit. We have a lot of young players and I hope we can keep on like this.

God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.

I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.

I used to ski. I still play basketball a little bit. I'll play soccer but more in a safe environment, never on a full-grass pitch.

I first got involved in soccer when I was three years old. And I played until I was sixteen, so for thirteen years, and I love it.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

I think Charlie George was one of Arsenal's all time great players. A lot of people might not agree with that, but I personally do

I was really into sports, playing track and field, amateur wrestling, volleyball, and soccer. I was a very active kid and teenager.

In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated

If there is one certainty in soccer, it is this: The quickest road to becoming a winning soccer team is to have a great goalkeeper.

I had to play for a soccer team, I had to be an athlete, I had to make straight As. I was very hard on myself, and it paid off now.

Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

I always had a soccer ball with me. I could never stop. As young as I can remember, my dad was always throwing a soccer ball at me.

Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists?

I played soccer. I was really known as an athlete. It was a shock to people that I was doing music. They thought it was really odd.

He predicts things. I have often heard him say things which are proved right minutes later. Its really impressive - almost mystical.

I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.

I am in a job where you always look in front of you. Unfortunately, the older you get, the less distance there is in front of you...

They have weaknesses, the same ones which every attack-minded team has. I'm sure that they will concede more than one at El Madrigal

He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.

Soccer's not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level.

Obviously the fans are very important to me, in fact they mean everything to me and they are the people I try to please when I play.

When I was pitching 'Hooligans,' with a budget of $15 million, most people said they don't want to see a picture about soccer thugs.

Maybe I should find myself one of those sexy British soccer stars. David Beckham is hot. But I've got a hell of a lot of competition.

I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go to all of them.

For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.

I am in a lot of pain. They say it is more pain than when you have a baby but I don't know as I have not had one. It is not possible.

If I'm not working on music, I'm probably torturing my infant daughter, Ingrid, with kisses or running or playing soccer in the park.

Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

You've got to believe you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.

Having not had a chance to review the tape and obviously not been in the tunnel, I will take the Wenger amendment on this one for now.

I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.

If I can inspire kids to do what I do - want to become professional soccer players - then I think that that's everything I want to do.

Bayern's midfielder, Owen Hargreaves, who scampered around the pitch like an office boy on amphetamines for the last 25 minutes or so.

I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

I played on the boy's teams until I was 12. I just loved it and had a passion for it. You couldn't get a soccer ball away from my foot.

I'm not silly enough to think I'm going to change the whole culture ... but I do have a belief that soccer can go to a different level.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Having the opportunity to join the FOX family as a soccer analyst in their Moscow studio for what will be my third World Cup is amazing.

I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.

Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what, it's not. It's rough as guts.

I don't know if that result's enough to life Birmingham off the bottom of the table, although it'll certainly take them above Sunderland

With no one collecting his knockdowns, what was Crouch supposed to do, juggle the ball with his head until the midfield support arrived?

It's funny, you'll probably find me more often watching soccer than a football game, because I get enough football in my daily schedule.

I've always thought having a kid that played soccer would be the worst punishment. After watching 3 min of water polo I stand corrected.

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.

It was just a normal family. We were playing basketball, we were playing soccer. It was home-cooked meals, just peaceful and happy times.

I know, firsthand, that soccer brings people together - all it takes is a ball and a few people, and the seeds of friendship are planted.

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