Bastian Schweinsteiger Quotes

The MLS is a fantastic competition, and it is growing all the time.

Even though professional soccer has become more about business and less about the game itself, I still believe football is a party for the legs that play it and for the eyes that watch it.

It's really great to see all the people who've become involved in building up the Premier League, especially in the States.

I play with Sacha Kljestan, and I talk a lot with him about playing in MLS.

In MLS, there's always something strange happening. But it's the same for everyone.

I've been watching all the games I can from MLS on television.

Everyone looks at MLS in a different way, of course. Because of the players coming in, it's a better league than before, of course. Everyone can see that there is potential to improve.

I'll watch an MLS game if it's on.

I like watching Spanish and Italian games and looking at how they play compared to us.

I've seen Graeme Jones getting absolutely crucified and I'm thinking, 'You've got it wrong,' He's one of the best things that's happened to the SFA. He's one of the main guys trying to drive the nation forward.

The thing that I really love to do, that I now only do in the shower, is to sing the national anthem.

I don't listen to the national anthem ironically. It's a beautiful song. I love it!

In everything, there are two kinds of development-analytical and synthetical. In the former the Hindus excel other nations. In the latter they are nil.

Sport is an essential element of education.

'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist.

It's a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.

I have always wanted to come and play in MLS so it’s the perfect combination for me and a dream come true.

High national emotions are permissible when a soccer team is playing precisely because they are impermissible at most other times. There aren't, simply, many other places where you can sing your national anthem until you lose your voice without causing a riot. In the context of soccer, flag-waving nationalism - even chauvinistic, anti-foreigner, flag-waving nationalism - is acceptable in Britain.

The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.

My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.

Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.

Heartbreak is the national anthem. We sing it proudly.

Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

You can feel the same thing in football or soccer - that for the best teams in Spain and England, for instance, the public... they're not really going to cheer at all when they play against bad teams unless they do something spectacular. Even if they're winning by a few goals they'll probably just say, "nah." That's normal and they're not excited about it.