Douglas Brunt Quotes

Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.

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.

I've played soccer since I was five.

I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty good. I used to train with Atletico Nacional, which is one of the most important teams in Colombia. I used to train every day.

I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.

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

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.

Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.

When I was growing up, I played a lot of soccer. I always wanted to be a good soccer player.

I'm really troubled by the prevalence of single-sport specializations. I want my kids to do as many things for as long as they can. Specialization is a natural thing that should come later - it shouldn't come for 8-year-olds.

Germany is where I had to become a true professional. They play in big games when they are young. We could model some of our soccer system after what they do.

With soccer, it's such a dynamic sport. It's important that however you play, you should be training like that.

I always had a soccer ball with me. I could never stop. As young as I can remember, my dad was always throwing a soccer ball at me.

I've always wanted to become a professional soccer player.

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

When I played for Boston Breakers in my early twenties, I really stepped up my training, which meant running drills until you're sick.

I'm always learning, especially with the different formations. It will help me in the long run to maybe become a forward player - on the wing or something.

I first got involved in soccer when I was three years old. And I played until I was sixteen, so for thirteen years, and I love it.

I liked soccer. I played it for two years.

My dad had a soccer school that he used to run, the Mark Chamberlain Soccer Academy, I used to go to that for two years until the age of seven.

I'm a big advocate of starting soccer young and always having the ball at your foot, but that's because I didn't do that. If I'd focused more on that when I was a kid, it would've been so helpful. It took me, like, halfway through college to feel comfortable with the ball.

Soccer was the first sport that my parents put me in, and ultimately, all the parents kind of came over to my mom and were, 'We think Channing would be better at football.... We love him, he's really great, but he's kind of hurting our children.' I was just a little wild.

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.

The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.

We're taking sports too far and starting kids too early.