Soccer Legacy Quotes

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.

I like tricks; I like to dazzle. Dribbling and leaving your opponent on his backside is what life is for. If I achieve what I want to, then I'll mark a distinct era in football. I'm the Che Guevara of modern soccer.

I'm being told I've become an inspiration to a lot of young soccer players in Edmonton and to me, that's just awesome.

Pele wasn't as gifted as George Best and I would definitely put George above Johan Cruyff because he had more heart.

I've got massive respect for Arsene Wenger for what he's done for the English game, and it would have been good to work under him, but that didn't happen.

It's unbelievable. I changed the way Barcelona played. Now, Spain have had to change.

The Fort Lauderdale Strikers is a team with history, tradition.

I've had my processes and opportunities with the Mexican national team. I played a lot of international matches for my country and now I think it's time to give the younger players and generation a chance.

I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them.

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.

Another reason why I am always close to the people, because the communication is very important. When I stopped to play soccer I continued to... I continued to work with UNICEF. I did a lot of work with UNESCO. We did a lot of charity programme and games.

I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.

We are constantly told to enjoy Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo before they retire but what about Arjen Robben?

Guardiola won so many trophies at Barcelona that he had a huge impact.

All I dreamed of when I became a footballer was to play for a club as big as Real Madrid. It's maybe the most famous and best club in the history of football.

Every championship that Brazil participates, we have the responsibility to win - every time. So when we don't win, it's considered as a failure.

St. Louis has a super-rich history of soccer, so I was very fortunate growing up to have coaches that played.

I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.

Fletcher Moss was where it started for me and a lot of other players as well.

I think - I hope - that we're going to be able to build something here with U.S. Soccer, where it's not just going to be about one lost match or one lost cycle or one lost team. It's going to be about an entire country rallying around an entire sport in a way that lasts.

It's true that if it's always going to be that if you win the World Cup or European Championship, you're a success, and if you don't, you're a failure, then you're bedding yourself for a lack of success because there aren't many coaches who have won those things, and there are thousands who haven't.