Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder..

The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football..

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game..

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence..

Since 9/11 we've been engaged in wars around the world, and General [James] Mattis has been a leading battlefield commander in many of those theaters….

He hit the post, and after the game people will say, well, he hit the post..

Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake. A win without art ….

Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians..

They can crumble as easily as ice cream in this heat.

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 co….

At the Argentina game, how would you have guessed that Darren Anderton would have gone off with cramp?.

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'.

Hockey is its own game. It's completely different than all the other games, although it's getting way too close to soccer..

Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than….

Not many people like him, he's an angry man. He'd go after his own shadow..

Believe it or not, goals can change a game..

We saw that he plays with his heart too. He obviously loves the game so much and was distraught to lose in the final. Seeing him cry nearly got me go….

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 say….

You must wait until the end, and at the end of the season you can say it was a good or a bad season..

Me having no education. I had to use my brains..

Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him..