I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.
Get the best player because whether it's soccer or whether it's anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest.
My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
And with just 4 minutes gone, the score is already 0-0.
Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.
Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well.
He is a goal scorer, not a natural born one - not yet. That takes time.
We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.
There's no in between-you're either good or bad. We were in between.
When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta be creative, you gotta let your talent take over.
He shouldn't have resigned over that game. It was not a bad performance; in fact it was quite a good one for England. I would not have resigned under those circumstances.
Once Celtic got their equaliser, they played a sort of anti-football.
I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.
We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.
In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.
I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.
Yes, he is not unused to playing in midfield, but at the same time he's not used to playing there either.
I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off.
Every club he's been to has had great injury crises. Every club. And it's always hamstrings.
It's a Renaissance, or put more simply, some you win, some you lose
He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head.
Who ever wins today will win the championship no matter who wins.
Liverpool's grand opera also gave us some light comedy - on hearing the news that the house of goalkeeper Pepe Reina was burgled, and his Porsche stolen, while he was heroically saving penalties at Anfield, fans took a typically witty line: police were said to be interviewing a man from the West London area, a certain Frank Lampard, whose whereabouts on Tuesday between 7.45pm and 10.15pm are unknown. Indeed.
I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual.
He's 31 this year: last year he was 30.
