Soccer Enthusiasm Quotes

I'm addicted to football. When I get outside, I just want to stay on the training pitch.

I absolutely love playing in Europe. The Premier League is fantastic, but once you get a taste for it, it's the place to be.

In England, football is important for everybody.

On the European nights, the corporate fans from overseas can't get tickets. It's mainly local fans. That's why the atmosphere is so great and the passion is so strong.

Growing up in New Orleans, I was always the only black kid, or one of two, on the school soccer team. While I was always conscious of this status, what took precedent was my unfettered love of the game.

I once saw professional soccer up there in Seattle, the Sounders. I went and saw that. I'm not a big soccer fan, but watching a live game is unbelievable. And then I went to Italy and saw a soccer match; it's something everyone should do once. It'll blow your mind.

I'm not a sports guy. However it's interesting to be in a place where people have a sporting fever. One time I was in Italy during one of the European soccer cups, and it's interesting because it's so electrifying.

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%.

When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run - the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans - propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer.

The people of Cleveland hate soccer. But it's my favourite thing and I follow the U.S. men's national team around when they play whenever I can.

I love soccer. That's all I ever watch. I'll watch it all day if I can. But I'm too bloody old to play now.

The Spanish league is fantastic, but it has not the great passion the English Premiership has got.

My childhood in Adelaide was filled with sport. I played soccer from morning until night.

The Manchester City fans have their opinion on the Champions League. It is down to us, as players, to create the atmosphere in there and help the fans.

I never had any doubts. I wanted MLS. I'd followed it on TV, and I liked it. And being able to play in New York did the rest. I don't know if I would have accepted an offer from any other city.

I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.

OK, I'm with my close family but I'm here to play football. I can't lie. If it weren't for that, I would be back in Argentina.

When I was younger, soccer was my life. I always wanted to play.

I think what we really want to do is to create a real soccer nation. We want to have kids really wanting to play the sport.

I've always loved the Premier League, I watched it as a child and I always liked the style of play here.

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.

If you want to know whether soccer is big in America, pick a weekend, go to any park in the land, and pay attention. We're there. We've always been.

The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.

I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me.

I like to watch soccer, no matter what teams or players are in the field.