Quotes About Community

I used to play soccer when I was little, but everybody played soccer when they were little.

What we are missing over here is the life of soccer.

Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.

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

If my soccer career were over, I would still come here because of the people. And despite the fact I've had to skip some school for National Team purposes, I am looking forward to holding that Carolina degree as soon as I can get my hands on it.

I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.

I would love being the soccer mom.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.

A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.

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

I just want to play well, have the people in Chicago enjoy watching soccer. You have a very good baseball team, a very good ice hockey team, and a very good football team. Hopefully you'll have a very good soccer team.

I think soccer in America is growing exponentially, and it's just going to keep getting bigger.

It's definitely one of my biggest passions - I played every day after school with all my friends from high school in Pennsylvania. They weren't really soccer players, so we would play basketball all the time.

I think - I hope - that we're going to be able to build something here with U.S. Soccer, where it's not just going to be about one lost match or one lost cycle or one lost team. It's going to be about an entire country rallying around an entire sport in a way that lasts.

I think soccer kept me off the street.

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

I have a lot of guy friends, from martial arts and film, and soccer. I actually barely know women.

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.

Putting soccer aside, N.Y.C. is just one of those cities that builds people.

Soccer is the main sport in Mexico; it's very important for the Mexican people. It's their passion - it's their religion - and Mexican football was always one of the best in the world.

My city was very basketball-minded so I was born playing basketball and I didn't like playing soccer that much.

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.

I grew up in Rochester, New York, where we had the North American Soccer League. Rochester were at the time the worst team in the whole league, but week in week out I was there to support my team.