Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare `entertainment.' It's not `entertainment.' It's culture.
Since I was a kid, I've wanted to do sports for a living. In the beginning, I played a lot of soccer, but in the end I chose tennis. I love sports in general ... But tennis is my passion.
If we had known there was biting in soccer, we would have started watching years ago.
Last week I was in London at an awards show, then I flew home and was in an RV park with my wife and kids in our motorhome, this week I'm in NY doing a charity event, and tomorrow I'll be coaching my daughters soccer practice. I guess the range of roles I play on film stem from the range of roles I play in real life.
I could have signed for Newcastle when I was 17, but I decided I would be better off at Carlisle. I'd had a drink that night.
And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.
Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.
Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. That is why it is so important that the FIFA World Cup will, for the first time ever, be hosted on the African continent in 2010. We feel privileged and humbled that South Africa has been given this singular honour of being the African host country.
It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.
I felt that we couldn't win the game. It was absolutely shocking.
I wouldn't be bothered if we lost every game, as long as we won the league.
One is never 100 per cent motivated. In winter, when it's raining and you have to go and play a small team in the north, I won't reveal what passes through your mind when you're getting out of the bus.
This is a game between players from 12 national sides, a game that if you have a friend in China, in Brazil, in Qatar...in half the world he wants to watch. I was thinking of this game when I signed for Chelsea.
I am the same person as always and I have the good fortune to play in a great team. It was an historic year for Barca and for me but it's thanks to the work of everyone.
I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.
I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.
Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose.
We had probably our best ever Player of the Year Dance last week. You elected Dennis Wise as Player of the Year. Dennis accepted his award mimicking Vialli, whereupon Zola shouted 'Speak English', Dennis switched to his normal Cockney voice only for Zola to shout 'You're still not speaking English'.
Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.
I wouldn't trust Newcastle's back five to protect my garden gnomes from squirrels.
Real possession football, this. And Zico's lost it
I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.
It gets like this in Liverpool when you're on the ferry and the sun reflects off the Mersey.
John Bond has brought in a young left-sided midfield player, who I guess will play on the left side of midfield.
