Soccer Obsession Quotes

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

It's funny, you'll probably find me more often watching soccer than a football game, because I get enough football in my daily schedule.

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.

I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer. You're going to look back 20 years from now and of course you're going to remember the games. But I'm going to remember seeing my family in the stands.

I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, 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.

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

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

Soccer is taken extremely seriously in Turkey.

Everything in my life - family, friends, even my fiance - are all second to soccer. And I've won every tournament where I haven't had anyone there. It just seems to work for me. I don't think I'm going to change that.

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

I just want to be good at soccer and have a normal life; it is a little ironic that you can't have both.

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.