Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it’s part of who I am. – Rabih Alameddine
The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news. – Randy Falco
I was gay before I began to play soccer over 40 years ago. It’s been 28 years since a friend and I organized one of the first gay soccer teams in the world. – Rabih Alameddine
Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I’m not sure why. – Rabih Alameddine
It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules. – Richard Smalley
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. – Xavi
I wasn’t a competitor. I would play outside with my friends, but not really anything like ballet or soccer. I tried to play soccer, and it went badly. – Sibel Kekilli
Soccer is one of those sports that pulls in a universal audience in terms of demographics. – Tanc Sade
I want a brood, you know. I’d like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff. – Taylor Kinney
In July 2011, U.S. Soccer announced that they’d fired Bob Bradley and hired Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach. Jurgen had once been a world-class German striker; now he was regarded as a successful, if controversial, coach. – Tim Howard
Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder. – Serge Schmemann
Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that’s the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice. – Ziggy Marley
I played English football – soccer – instead of American football, because we couldn’t afford the equipment. – Wally Schirra
I started playing soccer at age 6 and played both outfield and goalie. Back then, no one wanted to go on goalie – coaches would make deals with me so I’d do it. It’s a tough position as a kid. – Tim Howard
In Europe, it’s different – you eat soccer, you breathe soccer, you drink soccer. Everything is about soccer. – Thomas Dooley
At home, I’m lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer. – Steve Earle
What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it’s like a coach-player relationship. – Sean Durkin
I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes. – Shiri Appleby
Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I’ll tell you what – it’s not. It’s rough as guts. It’s great. – Tanc Sade
