Soccer Quotations | Page 5

After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.

The World Cup experience is more than just the game of soccer. It's an event. And it will fly by faster than you think. It will end and you'll be saying, 'Wow, it's over already?' You have to remember to take it all in and enjoy it.

The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league. (on Major League Soccer)

I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.

I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off.

And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good soccer happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it.

Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.

Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it