Quotes About Passion

I grew up playing soccer and always loved playing it.

I like to play soccer and paintball. I love paintball.

I've played soccer since I was five.

All three of us boys, we grew up playing soccer. It was all of our first love. One of my coaches actually wanted me to try out for the U.S. national team, but I decided to quit to pursue football.

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.

I want to be involved in soccer some way.

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

I would just as likely be doing soccer practice as filming commercials.

I never felt the same passion for the game in the States and there were a lot of headaches, a lot of obstacles to overcome - it didn't just run itself for the love of the game because soccer is not the No. 1 sport as it is in Europe.

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.

I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.

I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer.

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.

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.

Like so many of the players, I started at La Masia at the age of 11. I can't ever imagine not playing for Barcelona, let alone not playing soccer for a career. I don't ever want to play anywhere else.

I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball.

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 was hell-bent on being a soccer player all through junior high and high school.

Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.

For me, soccer was a dance.

I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.

All three of my kids play soccer. Each one of them started from the time they were about 5 or 6, and we just love it.