Soccer Mania Quotes

The fans are especially amazing in Mexico. You look out your window, and there are fans that stay out there all night long.

Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts - it's a fabulous kaleidoscope of colour.

It was really hard in Newcastle. It was one city, one club. Everybody there was really crazy about Newcastle.

Never been crazy enough about soccer to say, 'I'm a Madrid fan until death.'

The Rush fans are pretty crazy everywhere, but they're particularly wild in South America.

When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run - the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans - propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer.

Chinese fans are just passionate about the game. The love they have is just insane.

Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.

Do I miss football in Scotland? It keeps you really alive, that's for sure. Your heartbeat fluctuates. I'm flatlining at the moment which is actually quite nice but you need to go up and down to stay alive.

The World Cup experience is more than just the game of soccer. It's an event. And it will fly by faster than you think. It will end and you'll be saying, 'Wow, it's over already?' You have to remember to take it all in and enjoy it.

In Europe, it's different - you eat soccer, you breathe soccer, you drink soccer. Everything is about soccer.

Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.

The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.

I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul.

When I went to Seattle, it was quite a quiet town and we made it the biggest soccer following in America. We didn't have the paparazzi, though, and I needed that at the time.

I have a lot of respect for the British people and the passion which they have for football, the full stadiums.

I've never met anyone who loves the Socceroos as much as me.

Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!

World Soccer Stars presents a great opportunity to celebrate the arrival of football, and from what I know, football is the next emerging sport in Pakistan.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool - it is not a usual.

I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.

When I came from Europe, I was told that Americans don't care about soccer and this and that. But the way people cared was beyond my wildest expectations. You can't manufacture that.

The love Nigeria showed me... when I played for them in a friendly, the fans were just crazy. The fans almost eat you up because they love you so much.