Quotes About Culture

I have to say, without getting up on a soapbox, I find these reality shows absolutely disgusting.

The Russian people, sober, are said to be a gentle people.

I don't follow English soccer because it's become a game for hooligans.

If I'd grown up in Sao Paulo, I'm sure I would've been a great soccer fan.

My dad played for... the Villanueva de la Serena, so I guess that's why I play basketball instead of soccer.

But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.

In Europe, it's different - you eat soccer, you breathe soccer, you drink soccer. Everything is about soccer.

In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.

And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.

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.

Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that many of us played it in school and college, but that, well, we just don't find it quite as exciting as, say, what we call football.

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so that's why I'm a basketball fanatic.

I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.

I grew up in a generation when there was no soccer on TV.

I think I'm being conservative when I say there are more people playing soccer in the United States than in 90% of the world's other countries, probably 95%.

Soccer runs in my blood.

I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both.

I lived in Germany from when I was 6 until I was 10, so, of course, I played soccer. When I came back to the States, nobody played soccer, and none of the schools taught German, so I couldn't continue to excel in those categories.

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

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.

Soccer may not explain the world or even contain the world. But it makes the world a slightly happier place.

Rap is supposed to scare soccer moms.