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.
I wanted to be a soccer player.
Soccer helped especially with my footwork. When I played soccer, I was on offense scoring goals – I didn’t pass the ball so much so it probably didn’t help much with being a point guard.
When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta’ be creative, you gotta’ let your talent take over.
I think every American boy should play soccer till the eighth grade. Then they should play football. American football.
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 am an emotional person, and soccer is sheer emotion. For me, it is the best way to unwind.
Climbing has so much more culture than all other activities put together. There is no culture in tennis, just a few names, a few dates. No big culture in soccer. But we have thousands of books, great philosophers, thinkers, painters.
That’s what pushes me every day to want to be successful on the soccer field – being able to not only take care of my kid on a financial level and be stable but, most importantly, to inspire my child.
Having a family has helped a lot with my partner, my son. It helped me focus on soccer.
I love playing for Ireland, and I love soccer, but when it comes down to it, I would choose boxing as my number one sport, as I’d miss it too much if I wasn’t involved.
I get very envious of my general news colleagues who are always being handed sexy new stuff like global warming, China, and Donald Trump, while my sports colleagues and I must be eternally satisfied with the same old home-court advantage, soccer, and momentum.
I don’t think people have ever really been in touch with science. They’re drawn to it, but they don’t know why they’re drawn to it. For example, you may be blown away by the structure of something, like a soccer ball or a geodesic dome, with its hexagonal shapes.
Girls can be funny and play sports and show how to do the perfect soccer kick if they want.
Soccer is always changing and evolving, and I think our national team has had to change with the times.
I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.
Without a doubt, it is easier to produce a defensive soccer team, because it does not need you to have talent for it but simply to be well organised.
People told me I was more of a soccer player, not a football player.
I’m very, very focused on my children. In fact, I’m very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don’t work. So as long as I’m not traveling, I’m always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.
My city was very basketball-minded so I was born playing basketball and I didn’t like playing soccer that much.
Although, at times, soccer is a challenge to mind, body, and spirit, fundamentally, the progression of the U.S. women’s game and those who play it reflects a distinctively American culture, rooted in our struggle, shared aspiration, hard work and self-determination.
I love Major League Soccer, covered the first game in 1996 in a funky stadium in San Jose, and I applaud just about every move that its commissioners, Garber and Doug Logan, have made.
While I’m more of a soccer and tennis fan myself, I still enjoying catching some football games when I get the chance.
I played soccer until I was like 10 or 11, maybe 12. I had fun with it, but it was a team sport, and I hated losing, and we kept losing, so I quit.
As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.
I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn’t happen.
I’ve been going to soccer games since I was a kid. For me, soccer brought people together. You didn’t need money to do it. You needed one ball and your friends. That’s what’s so amazing about the game and why it’s so global.
The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud is not enough for the owners and the fans. They want a miracle worker like Our Lady of Lourdes, with the stamina of Gandhi.
I played soccer my whole life. I’m kind of a heavier person, and whenever you kick and punt, no matter how limited an activity it is, my brain and shoulders are going to be OK because I didn’t play a tough guy position, but my knees took a lot of wear and tear from the kicking.
Soccer’s not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level.
I don’t just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer. You’re going to look back 20 years from now and of course you’re going to remember the games. But I’m going to remember seeing my family in the stands.
I was real into theater, and then I tried soccer, acting and ballet. Both my parents didn’t want a child-star model, so I didn’t get into modeling until I was 14.
When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn’t work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
A soccer star is on the field for two hours. In hockey, your star player is on the ice for 20 minutes.
Everything started with my mom. When I was five, she asked me if I wanted to sign up for soccer, but I had some pretty wild contract demands. ‘I’ll only play if you’re my coach.’ So my mom went to the library and brought home a bunch of books on how to coach soccer, and that was it. She was my first manager.
I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.
In high school, I made the all-city and all-state soccer teams.
What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it’s like a coach-player relationship.
Soccer is an uncomfortable sport. You’re running; you’re getting tackled.
My hobbies are linked to the way I want to play soccer. I want to do different action things, like kite surfing, snowboarding, mountain biking, freeriding with skis. I like these sports in my free time and it could be a big link with how I want to play soccer.
As an early teen, soccer is the number one thing that you do – and I wasn’t very good at that.
I was an athlete growing up. I did a lot of sports: soccer, basketball, so I was always so used to hardcore training, a lot of running. I got to a point where I felt like I just wanted to get toned; I didn’t need to shed pounds, so now I do Pilates.
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. It’s great.
I think it’s important to make clear, you know, that the problem with American soccer… it isn’t talent.
My wish is that soccer in the U.S. become on the same level like the Premier League, Spanish league, or the Bundesliga.
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.
In general, taking soccer out of the picture, as an American living overseas, it’s so cool, and I’ve grown so much. Now I can look at my life from a different perspective.
I used to go to my kids’ soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn’t screaming, because I’d have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game.
You know how kids dream of being soccer players or actors? Well, my dream was to be a sushi chef.
I want to win every game – soccer, tennis, it doesn’t matter. When I play I am very loud. I am very emotional.
Putting soccer aside, N.Y.C. is just one of those cities that builds people.
Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
My biggest dream from the moment I started playing soccer was to join the national side. I was privileged to be part of the team and to serve as its captain and there’s no greater honor.
I don’t watch shows. I watch a lot of sports. Not soccer. I hate soccer.
Soccer has surpassed, in this country, hockey.
Find a type of exercise that you love – whether it’s dance, soccer, softball, anything – just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you’ll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
Sure we have skilled players, but the biggest thing might just be that we are so well conditioned and how we can play for 90 minutes at a high tempo which is needed in soccer at an international level.
I’m a big advocate of starting soccer young and always having the ball at your foot, but that’s because I didn’t do that. If I’d focused more on that when I was a kid, it would’ve been so helpful. It took me, like, halfway through college to feel comfortable with the ball.
