Claudio Reyna Quotes

The more people who come from abroad who played soccer and are brought up playing it and watching it, then come over to America and bring what they know and what they play, that's how the sport will grow.

In North America, many fans know Cristiano Ronaldo's smirk and can recognize Didier Drogba in a commercial. Maybe they know too much for the good of M.L.S.

You can't obviously predict the future, but I am a fan of the United States and soccer over there continues to grow.

I think soccer in America is growing exponentially, and it's just going to keep getting bigger.

I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.

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%.

I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch.

Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.

I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.

The Empress Dowager enjoins her people that only by adopting what is superior about the foreign countries can we rectify what is wanting in China.

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that.

I've played all over the world. I've played in England, South Africa, Pakistan.

Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, and through them presses a wild motley throng, men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes, featureless figures of the Hoang-Ho, Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Kelt, and Slav. Flying the Old World's poverty and scorn, these bringing with them unknown gods and rites, Ttose, tiger passions, here to stretch their claws in street and alley. What strange tongues are loud accents of menace alien to our air, voices that once the Tower of Babel knew! O Liberty, white Goddess! Is it well to leave the gates unguarded?

You can learn a lot in the Europa League or from playing different teams from across Europe, and European football has improved me as a player.

It took a while to get the support of British people as they wouldn't naturally want to support someone from another country.

I've played matches in Mexico, Canada and the United States. The people of North America have always welcomed me.

Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.

My only experience with American things is through movies.

It's no secret that I think that MLS is a top five, top six league in the world but they're not the top league.

When I came in the NBA, it was more a U.S. game. Now you can watch the NBA anywhere in the world.

We're in a long line of English people pretending to be Americans and not being as good as Americans.

I've been on loads of promotional trips in so many other countries, and most of the time, you just want to go home.

I'm really happy to have been part of spreading the game of basketball and growing the game in a place like Turkey.

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.