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.
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.
I’m an avid runner and play soccer every weekend, but I also have to constantly watch what I eat, and I’m always thinking about how to balance my meals.
I played street soccer; that’s where I started. If you look at South America, that’s why they have technical players.
It’s important to be a soccer player in the sense of the whole vision – if you put me at forward, I can do it, or if you put me in midfield, I can do it.
I was playing in a tournament in Brazil and an agent scouted me. He took me to his soccer school. The idea was he used it to scout players and anyone he thought was good enough he took over to Italy. That’s what he did with me when I was 15.
I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them.
The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.
I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.
I want young girls to dream about being professional soccer players instead of just watching the boys go out and play.
What soccer and coaching gave me was sort of a stage.
A lot of leftists think it is soccer’s fault that people don’t think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a proof that people think with their feet.
No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.
I used to be so focused on winning, I had a really hard time enjoying soccer. If I missed a shot, I would spend a lot of time thinking about how I’d disappointed my teammates. Then I learned how moments of struggle make you stronger.
When I saw contestants fighting for their lives on ‘The Biggest Loser,’ I realized I just wanted to be healthy – to have fun playing soccer with my son or teaching my daughter to shoot hoops. Then it was so much easier to say no to carbs, soda, or dessert, and the weight just came off.
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.
When I was a kid, I mix watching soccer and the U.S. Open, that’s it.
It takes a tremendous amount of skill to be a football player. And some of these guys have enough skills to do other sports. Soccer could be one. Basketball could be another. Things where you need incredible hand-eye coordination are always options. I think a football player would be able to adapt to a lot of sports.
I don’t know if I found soccer or if soccer found me. Especially because when I was younger, I was doing it, in a lot of ways, because I wanted the attention of my mom and dad.
Everybody loves tennis or soccer there. That’s another reason for these unbelievable tennis players from Tandil.
I played in Europe and it was a great experience, not just because of my team-mates and the coaches we had, but from the fans and the city itself – I played in Gothenburg and I played in Lyon and soccer was everywhere.
I always thought I would make it as a professional athlete but I thought it would be playing soccer.
I have my own brand called Monta, including a specially designed street soccer ball made out of a denim material which fades like your old jeans when used.
I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it.
I myself am a soccer mom, a volleyball mom and a basketball mom.
I realized I couldn’t raise two kids, coach soccer, be on the PTA, teach full time, and do all the administrative bookkeeping. I do need to sleep four or five hours a day.
I was a soccer player. Basketball wasn’t my thing.
To play a soccer game, you have to be in very good shape.
I love kids, and I really liked the idea of getting involved with something that was all about giving kids the opportunity to walk, run, or maybe even play soccer someday.
When you talk about Mexican culture, it’s wrestling and soccer.
I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it’s a gender-free sport in high school there.
I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.
I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.
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.
When my daughter Dixie gets out of school, I take her to ballet, soccer, or karate. Or if it’s a free afternoon, we might bake together. I love our time together. There is nothing more important in my life than making her happy.
Over the years, we settled into American life and embraced it fully. But having come from a different culture, I didn’t know the boundaries of American culture. Which is that, as a girl, you didn’t play football or soccer at lunch with the boys, and to be cool, you didn’t get into math Olympiad.
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 played one year of competitive basketball, actually. I don’t remember what grade I was in, maybe middle school or something. I was the point guard – I was the smallest one always. I did my best; I thought I did pretty good. I was always a little bit better at soccer, so I had to make the decision.
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.
I definitely play soccer every week and try to keep life as normal as I can.
I love soccer.
Weary soccer players just cannot run anymore and must resort to shootouts after 120 minutes when a result is mandatory, but men on skates can go indefinitely, no matter how badly it disrupts the television network’s schedule.
I’m a rock star because I couldn’t be a soccer star.
During my days as a soccer player, my teammates used to call me ‘Touch’ because I have a touch of blonde hair on my forehead which is a birth mark. But now swimming is my favourite sport.
When I was growing up, I played a lot of different sports. There was a time when I was playing field hockey, tennis, and soccer at the same time. I was actually quite good at all of those sports.
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.
The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.
You know me, I’m not that kind of person that cares to unveil all of my personal things to the world because frankly, in terms of my soccer, it doesn’t matter.
Soccer is my first love. I’ve been playing since I was 4 years old. I traveled the world doing it. I broke my leg when I was 16 or 17, and acting kind of filled the void.
I’ve never met anybody who says they don’t like the World Cup. If you’re a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance – this peak of ecstasy.
When I’m with friends, when I have time, I like to play soccer, and I think it’s still my passion, still my love. I’m not crazy to do it every day, but sometimes when I see the ball, I like to kick the ball.
You know a dog loves you for who you are; they don’t know if you’re a soccer player or not. Sometimes people treat you good because you’re a footballer or because you’re famous, but a dog doesn’t know it.
My older brothers have their own children, and they have to go to soccer practice and football practice on the weekends. They’re doing their thing and on the weekends, and I’m on the road. The busier we get, the less time we get to see each other. That’s why, when we see each other, it’s really, really kind of special.
I’m a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I’ve met a lot of big stars – Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble – and I don’t ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.
By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.
I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.
I grew up playing soccer and it’s definitely my first love.
My dad is actually from Ghana in West Africa, and I was actually born in Ghana, too, and came to the United States when I was two years old. It’s always football over there, soccer, but becoming a Massachusetts native, you can’t help but get sucked into all the sports.
