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If God had wanted man to play soccer, He wouldn't have given us arms.

Mike Ditka

If you're in an outdoor event, for example let's say a soccer game, and the person next to you is smoking on a normal bleacher and if the wind is blowing in your direction, it's like someone sitting next to you in a restaurant. Now, if the distance is farther, obviously the secondhand smoke would diminish or the side effects would diminish.

Tim O'connor

We have to sacrifice not going out on the weekends because we have an early game. Playing soccer has been kind of like a double major Overall the entire season was a really good memory.

Kaitlin O'malley

If I had done my job better of preparing these guys, we would have done better. But (Freedom's) soccer, well, wasn't really soccer. They had to rely on free kicks and throw-ins. And for us to lose to a team that plays that type of soccer is very disappointing.

Mark Pearson

Soccer-wise, I look forward to her developing.

Terri Patraw

It's a little team. Here, everyone's interested in baseball and American football and many people didn't even know that a soccer match was being played today. So it's easy for them, because they aren't playing under any pressure. My mother, my grandmother or my great grandmother could play in a team like that.

Ricardo La Volpe

We've never had a coach for two seasons. We've heard all about the videos that Mr. Loughran watched to learn about soccer.

Heather Brown

Getting a hat trick in soccer is almost a miracle.

Warren Cottle

It was way too cold to be playing soccer. It was a very complete performance defensively and offensively, but it's only the first game so we don't want to get too excited.

Ian Cooke

In every game I'm offended by the referees. It's embarrassing to complain about this to the press, but I just can't play normally. It's like they don't want an Argentine to succeed in Brazilian soccer. If nothing changes, I think it will be difficult for me to stay.

Carlos Tevez

We had more girls play year-round soccer than any other year. Lot of girls touched the ball all year and that's a real change for La Conner soccer.

Amy Freeto

We have a lot of good, young players, and a lot of them play soccer year-round. Anything can happen. We didn't expect to be where we are now. Our goal is to sneak a game or two from the big three this year. And next year, there's no reason why we can't be competitive with anyone.

Brian Rolfe

I am excited to bring someone of Brian's personal and professional caliber to this new position. His commitment to this organization, to this sport, and to this community is special. As our Director of Soccer Development, Brian's responsibilities range from coaching and scouting, to competitive analysis, to serving as our bridge between the team and the front office.

John Ellinger

I think (Houston) is a great city for a soccer team. If we continue our success that we had in San Jose then we can make it even better.

Ricardo Clark

We'll never change the attitude of the 48-year-old coach on the soccer field. 'Oh, it's over there, it's not going to bother us.' We'll never change him. But I can educate his 8-year-old daughter. She's going to come up to him and say, 'Daddy, let's go.' And he's going to leave.

Mike Utley

We are hoping to create an interest and an awareness of soccer for kids and bring it back to the area, ... We just want to be able to help these kids and teach them the skills that they will need in the future.

Heather Mitts

You're going to see some good soccer coming up. It's going to be difficult but fun to play in.

Dave Platt

I've heard it come up at the soccer field. Someone says, 'Oh that poor person, how embarrassing,' and someone else says, 'Yeah, but it serves him right.'

Fred Stratmann

We're excited to have Manny back in the Thunder fold and have created opportunities for aspiring soccer players to learn the game from one of the top players, professionals, and positive role models to have come out of Minnesota. We have made a promise to the soccer community to bring the Minnesota soccer people back to the Thunder; this is another major step in fulfilling that promise.

Djorn Buchholz

I converted her from midfielder to forward last year just for goal production, ... She's a very aggressive player. Her ball skills are fantastic. She always goes 100 percent whether it be games or practice. She hates to lose. She's everything you want, not only as a soccer player, but as an athlete.

Ashley Brown

They are definitely Division I athletes and soccer players. They're a kick to have on any team.

Greg Fish

We played a good match. We had six minutes of craziness. It was something which can't be explained. It's not the moment of regrets. We are sorry, embittered, but this is soccer.

Carlo Ancelotti

He's Academic All-State in soccer because he has a GPA better than 3.6.

Mark Nirrengarten

They're in Europe this year, ... They play really good attacking soccer. That's the way Keegan likes playing. There's a lot of good players in the club. Everything about it is exciting, the training ground, the stadium, the whole package.

Claudio Reyna

Our program's emphasis is on Latin American, especially Mexican, soccer.

Jorge Ramos

Sebastian is a very attractive player. He has a huge pedigree in soccer and he has a strong desire to play in the States. He has the potential to be an impact player in this league.

Sigi Schmid

When he was walking through the crowd, they started doing soccer chants for him.

Andrew Brown

The thing you always remember about Carlos is, he has the best smile -- even when he plays soccer.

Pam Murphy

Their goalkeeper is phenomenal. I really hope she does something with soccer because you can see her potential.

Kate Miller

While I have been an ardent supporter of bringing professional soccer to the area, I have privately and publicly encouraged the organization to strongly consider a more appropriate name, one which is free of controversy and embraced with enthusiasm by all segments of the community.

Commissioner Sylvia Garcia

He's a player who eliminates his rivals and that makes him a type of terrorist in today's soccer. He eliminates them, leaving them without any hope of recovery.

Jorge Valdano

Our team played one of its best halves of the season in the first half. For Wexler, that was one of the most focused and intense halves of soccer I've ever seen him play.

Dave Platt

Munson, who plays soccer in the summer for a traveling team, gives us another dimension with her athletic ability. She gets us into our offense and has good instincts (as the point). She's had to guard several outstanding players.

Duane Thomas

I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.

Peter Robinson

Billy has a soccer background and he's applying it to football. He's worked with John Carney (of the NFL) and went to some camps. I like our odds with extra points this year.

Dick Fossa

I think it will help my country. Soccer is the big thing in Mexico. This will show the kids in Mexico that there's a lot of opportunities out there for them.

Dennys Reyes

Her dad and I felt that if Morgan lived on a soccer field at least we could have it at home.

Brenda Miller

We're truly living in an era where U.S. soccer is going in a new direction.

Tab Ramos

We've dictated the game with all our home games recently, barring the D.C. one. I think against this team it's going to present a good opportunity to show some good offensive soccer and put them under a lot of pressure and kind of redeem ourselves for losing to them earlier in the season.

Joe Cannon

Our young players got their first taste of how fast and physical soccer can be. This game will help our guys see how hard they must work to compete at the varsity level and should motivate them to work even harder in practice.

Peter Elliott

It was a lot of fun and really different from anything around here and that's what I liked about it. I like the other things just a little bit more and the soccer is just a bonus. Being in Europe is the main part of the trip.

Matt Nelson

It feels great to be back among my teammates. At this moment we are all geared up to playing our best soccer and helping the UAE qualify to the next stage of the Asian Cup qualifiers.

Faisal Khalil

We are playing in Florence where the people are passionate about soccer and a lot will depend on their support.

Marcello Lippi

If that's not the case, I have my degree in secondary education so who knows what is going to be ahead for me, but I hope it is in soccer somehow.

Brian Mcbride

After that game, my dad suggested that I try football instead of soccer.

Julian Dalanhese

We continue to have discussions with San Jose city officials about the future of major league soccer returning to the Bay Area and are hopeful that this will continue to move forward.

Dan Courtemanche

A few games were well below freezing and those guys came in the cold with shirts off and painted chests. You rarely see that in soccer in the U.S. These guys really pushed - it's amazing to see that happen, usually it's just Europe.

Julius James

You might think that since you are a busy, active family that an active dog might best suit your needs. But if your activities mainly consist of going to soccer and ballet practice while the dog sits at home by itself, that most likely isn't a good fit.

Stephanie Shan

It's a tough part about the sport of soccer. You can really possess it a lot and do a lot of things right but you have to score goals.

Mark Heiderscheid

It becomes a learning process. Parents don't know very much about soccer because they don't have a soccer background, so they have to rely on their children, so that increases the level of communication, hopefully, in the family.

Shawn Williams

The auction is casual and you could have been in the garden all day, at baseball or soccer, come home and come on over. It's just a pleasant spring evening overlooking the pond.

Cathy Herdner

People might say we didn't need this victory. I think we very much needed it. The Russian soccer needed it. Look at how many rookies we had.

Georgy Yartsev

I think we played well as a team. Our keeper (Ashley White) made some great saves; our defense did well and our outside did well. Soccer is a team game. We win as a team; we lose as a team.

Kylee Mcarthur

We played nice soccer tonight.

Robert Cullen

For 20 years, the only notable change in soccer was the removal of the pass to the goalkeeper.

Michel Hidalgo

I packed the family up in the car, and we went to the game, at the old Mile High, and it was a real downpour, just torrential rain. It turned out that there was a mudslide that blocked off I-70 so we had to take this huge detour and ended up getting home at something like four in the morning. I actually called Don up and said that I hoped that my experience with soccer would get better from here!

Oliver Luck

Ryan Brown comes to us out of New Jersey and the PDA soccer club. His speed and work rate will be a great addition. His ability to beat players on the dribble as well as the pass will cause real problems for opponents. He has a genuine desire to make a team better. How can a coach not be excited about that?

Cameron Rast

[As for a return to South Jersey next year] Definitely, ... As long as my schedule allows it, I would love to come back next year and do this again. We'll do anything we can do to bring soccer back strong to this area.

Heather Mitts

We're looking at our options for putting an expansion team in St. Louis. We've met with Major League Soccer, had a feasibility study and made other inroads. At this point, we're very serious about it, but it's still in the planning stage and we're not ready to make an official announcement.

Michael Huyghue

In basketball and soccer players, that's what usually happens. Nobody even touches them. The body is caught in a given position where there is rotation on the leg, and all the pressure is placed on that one ligament.

Angelo Colosimo

It took us a half to adjust to what playoff soccer is like. This was a tough way to lose.

Rick Ellis

In Mexico, every afternoon you go out and play soccer and hang out with your friends. Here, you go home and watch TV. It's pretty boring.

Victor Espiritu

I think now that it's been in circulation for more than a year or so, I think there's more people who know what's going on and know it's an issue. I'd say a good percentage of our soccer coaches have brought this to the attention of their athletic directors.

Kevin Heise

The doctor expects I'll be able to play soccer again. Eventually I'll be fully active again.

Sarah Martin

We've probably got 60 percent (of the players) who have never touched a soccer ball until this season.

David Day

In spite of the young lineup, we will be competitive and have a quicker overall team. Last year was one of the best Council Bluffs soccer seasons. This year will be new and different.

Gail Andersen

The experience that night was fantastic. I think that's where most of my enthusiasm comes from. It was an amazing atmosphere that they created there. We had the benefit of having the L.A. Galaxy against one of the bigger Mexican teams, so there was a large Hispanic crowd, but the point there is they are passionate about soccer. The fans are there; I know they are there because I've seen it.

Craig Waibel

Janae is simply a great soccer player who is a proven winner and will have wonderful impact on our team right away. She can take over a game in the midfield by herself.

Chuck Sekyra

Growing up in a soccer family I learned some good moves, but I spend a lot of time in practice working on my shots-from free throws to off-balance shots. The only way a shooter can perfect their shots is through constant practice.

Steve Nash

(Kooiman) played really well. We played opportunistic soccer, we were a little frustrated going into the second half, and he took care of business which is what we like to see from our seniors.

Brent Deruyter

I'm really hoping that this (playing with the Cougars) will give me the experience and credibility I need to go on and play outdoor professional soccer.

Chad Bartlomé

I don't like to lose, but it's very encouraging to see how well we played in the second half. A couple of touches here or there and were even with a very good soccer team.

Mark Heiderscheid

It's not about politics, it's about soccer.

Cary Kaplan

The fan feedback we received we can not ignore. Dragon Stadium is a very fine stadium, but our players and fans want the Burn to play on a grass soccer field and we want to be receptive to that need.

John Wagner

Like any other team, we're looking to compete for the league and district titles. Harper really has never been known for that in girls' soccer but we're looking to push towards that and swing the program in that direction.

Amy Estry

Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.

John Mccarthy

He was a good shooter and dribbler. He was actually better at basketball than soccer.

Chris Wallinger

I'll go to (Williams) and tell him and tell anyone else that I would never disrespect someone that way. Sure, players insult each other. That happens and I can think of all the things that people have said to me on the field, but that's soccer. What they're saying I said is something that nobody would say on the field.

Amado Guevara

I did it because I love it, I did it because it's part of me and I did it because I had the greatest support. I didn't come (to the U.S.) to play soccer, I came here for a new life. ... Soccer is in my blood. My family is in my heart.

Fernando Clavijo

She is a young, charming, personable soccer mom who has been carrying a secret for longer than she can tolerate. She has a child who doesn't have an identity, and she wants to make her life cleaner and wants her son to be able to live a normal life.

Robert Axelrod

The accuracy we achieved would be like kicking a soccer ball on the Earth and scoring a goal on the moon.

Marc Rayman

It's difficult to really take an athlete and make him into a soccer player in 10 practices.

Bobby Brockman

We wanted to win this competition because we are huge soccer fans and because we knew that there are a few things that haven't been done, like the use of light and the use of color.

Jacques Herzog

She was a great leader, a great soccer player. The strength of the team is the team, not the individuals. She was somebody we looked toward to make things happen. And her personality was even stronger than her soccer ability.

Lindsey Ingram

I wanted to play since my ninth grade year, but I was busy with soccer and then I broke my arm.

Matt Hughes

For somebody who hasn't played soccer for three years, Dennis is going to be pretty good.

Tim Graham

For at least two hours a day he's focusing on this. If it gets to a point where it's interfering with this and he's better off saying, 'OK, I've got to deal with this before I can concentrate on soccer,' then he will do that.

Barry Gorman

Basketball is a global game, just like soccer is a global game. You see the Manu Ginobilis and Yao Mings of the world. We can play the game in every country.

Andrew Bogut

People talk about what the weather is going to be like in the next months. They say is hot and humid, but that is part of soccer and it could be in our favor when rivals come here. Houston has to be hell for away teams.

Ronald Cerritos

One of the guys was giving soccer balls to the Iraqi kids and bam - a bomb blew up. All of the guys' families were there, and some of the mothers, you could see the sadness in their eyes. It just makes you appreciate what those guys are doing over there, it really makes you think.

Sean Casey

Soccer is much bigger there than it is here, and Asia is just much bigger.

Paul Kennedy

With the addition of lights and a new student section, we expect there will be an energy rarely seen on our field, ... This energy will undoubtedly translate to our players and create a fantastic environment to watch Michigan Soccer.

Steve Burns

I've been waiting for this moment for the longest time and it's finally here, ... I just want to get out there and play and have fun. After all, when I'm on the soccer field, that's when I'm at my happiest.

Freddy Adu

It would be unfair to say the money dispute influenced the players' performance. I try not to give too much attention to administration and negotiations and focus exclusively on soccer.

Ted Dumitru

This is probably the best group that ever played in Marion soccer, and they're going to be stronger next year.

Mike Intravaia

We talk about stuff we need to work on, things like that. I guess you could call us soccer nerds.

Holly Christensen

They are not tennis players. They came from soccer. Those (are) No. 3, 4 and 5 spots, so I really don't have that classic (tennis team). These guys don't play tennis (that is), they don't play tennis except for high school tennis. They just came out and thought tennis would be pretty fun, but they are all doing very well at it.

Joe Dickson

I felt we were pretty dangerous today, and it's hard to score goals in soccer. Their assistant coach [Ian Hennessey] said we should have had five or six goals. But to finish with three is still not bad.

Seth Roland

In today's environment where you have to have supervision, it's beneficial to add elements of street soccer like extended periods of play without interruption into your practices. Coaches need to create an environment that helps the youth player navigate through the game.

Bob Jenkins

They're amazing. First class. Some of the best fields in the country. I've been around soccer for a long time and this is some of the best.

Steve Holeman

I think it's [the memorial is] a beautiful spot and fits in here at the soccer fields perfectly.

Mary Alice

There are things that can't be explained in soccer. That's what happened against Brazil, we can't explain what went wrong.

Javier Zanetti

This was a great high school soccer match. I'm proud of my boys. I felt like they competed hard.

Trevor Waters

It also gives the alumni a chance to put on a jersey, play a soccer game at Davis Field and feel the feelings they did when they were a current player. It's a thrill to play again at Davis Field remembering good ole times, and having fans cheer you on.

Brooke Pollard

It is a great opportunity for these young ladies. I mean, how often does this happen? You are in a select group of 50 soccer players and you get to have first-hand experience with Mia?

Laura Rountree

Currently programs are getting 1½ hours to practice at West, which will not include inside space for girls soccer. Practices will finish around 10 p.m. We will be moving all volleyball games and badminton matches to the West Campus.

Chris Olson

Croatia is a small country up against a giant country that invented soccer and is one of the best in the game, only we believe in our strengths and our chances of winning.

Otto Baric

I thought about it the year before when a couple of guys on the soccer team went out.

Blake Sauer

All we see is football, baseball, soccer, but no basketball. We need to get some trophies of our own.

Charles Harper

We can't wait, ... We had over 100 more kids for soccer this year (460) and we are expecting at least 100 more this year for football, so we are really excited.

Jerry Herring

We thought we needed a kicker after about a week of camp. So, I sent word to Mike Barr (soccer coach) and asked him to pick one and send one. He sent me Karl and he?s been great. We think he?s a gamer.

Kevin Clancy

It's a very bad blow for soccer.

Pierre Blayau

If you ask any coach they'll say the same thing in any game, whether it's soccer, baseball or hockey; that third goal was a big goal. If they put one in, we're in big trouble. If we put it in, the whole momentum changes.

Bo Williams

In my opinion this tie is one of the greatest ties or wins in the short history of the Montgomery Bears soccer team. This has really put us on the map.

Adrian Benziger

Sometimes soccer is a cruel game. McDaniel played well, had lots of chances and they finished them. We couldn't put one in and they could.

Brian Parker

A player always wants to stay in soccer, but he is an outcast for the rest of his life.

Luc Misson

Absolutely. She has great speed and great vision. She knows when to make a run, when to make a pass. Claudia has great, great soccer instincts. As a coach, you see it everyday, and I'm just in awe of some of the stuff she does.

Osama Hamid

I've loved soccer all my life. I've seen many leagues in Houston, and now I get to come home and see it here. The energy and the fans screaming was just great.

Juan Flores

We return everyone from last year's squad and we will compete well. We don't have great pure soccer players but we have multi-sport athletes who play very hard.

Mark Royer

I never thought about missing either. It was an honor to be picked in the all-star game and I wanted to play in it. And I definitely wasn't going to miss the soccer game.

Rachael Ackerman

We were playing soccer so we thought it would be a good idea in the winter to get in shape through Nordic skiing. And it really stuck with us.

Tracy Barnes

It's not important that he has a lot of money... the most important thing is that he invests it in soccer.

Adrian Mutu

I think the girls played well. It felt like I was home. It was weird not being on the Creighton bench. It's the best facility in the nation for college soccer. The field is so perfect and the ball runs very fast. It's a great atmosphere.

Becky Heiberger

Now, he asks for school supplies, soccer balls and Beanie babies to hand out to the Iraqi children. He is always putting the soldiers or the Iraqi children ahead of himself.

Denise Jorgenson

There's only so much you can do. Valley's easily got a couple all-state players. Those guys are going to play Division I soccer and to face that kind of precision as a keeper is tough.

Chad Zmolek

Nobody is above the law, and nobody is below the law. Even if they don't speak English, even if they were at a bar, even if they are soccer fans instead of football fans, everybody is entitled to protection in our community.

Jay Granberry

Jeff is a prolific goal scorer and we believe he is the best soccer player from the Dayton area this year. It is great to get someone out of our backyard with such a great background.

Dennis Currier

Not only do I think Nate is the best Minnesota player available, but I believe he was one of the best American players available. He will make an immediate impact in our midfield and Minnesota soccer fans are in for a real treat.

Amos Magee

I don't think any coach in the state can put their schedule up against ours. We play a tough schedule and I think we will benefit from it. I think these girls are becoming better soccer players.

Iain Jones

They are a special bunch of girls who have figured out that soccer is just as much about relationships as it is skills and tactics.

Scott Carswell

This is the first time we've played soccer in the spring; we have just played in the fall in the past, so it's kind of fun to see some different teams.

Marcus Miller

I'm tired of the hand grenades being thrown in my path. I want soccer. I want it now.

Penny Riccio

There's so much hate in the team against the American government. Soccer is just one part of life. But could you imagine taking the NBA and the NFL away from Americans for two years? People would be angry.

Bernd Stange

There are more middle school teams than high school teams. I think it's the fastest-growing sport in the country right now. It's like soccer was in the '90s. It's really exploded.

Adam Little

It combines elements of football, basketball and soccer.

Geoffrey Fosdick

It's difficult to play soccer, but it's a way for us to get back in the swing of things. Although it's a reminder of Jenna, it's the thing we have to wake up to every day. Soccer is my distraction.

Lindsey Ingram

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

Jon Holmes

Ben is also considered one of the best soccer players in the state of Ohio. He is a central midfielder that plays box to box with his excellent stamina.

Dennis Currier

But this week (the high school campers) is the week I look forward to the most. For five days, soccer players come in from all over and enjoy playing soccer and making new friends. It is great fun.

Alan Meeder

It wasn't a pretty game. Everyone wanted to score and we didn't play disciplined soccer.

Bernd Weber

The neurologist told me that it would be a year before I could possibly play soccer again. That's not what I wanted to hear. I was crushed.

Meghan Flynt

It's nothing. He did it playing soccer.

Delta Goodrem

We tell our kids all the time, that soccer is won and lost in the midfield.

Ryan Lawrence

Have the adverse effect of damaging the quality of British soccer.

Stephen Byers

Right now, with St. Simons kids all coming to Glynn Academy, there's most of the soccer concentration over there. Until the city of Brunswick kind of catches up, we're going to have a little bit of an edge on them. The fact is we have more club players (from) St. Simons, which is more of a hot-bed of soccer than, say, Brunswick is.

Gary Larkins

A couple of years ago the city of Bellingham tried to get the state soccer tournament here, and part of the reason we didn't get it was the facilities. Hopefully we'll have a better chance to bring those kinds of events here now.

Colin Cushman

Everybody's really excited about it. The community's really supporting us. We've had success like this in soccer, but not basketball. It makes the long winter seem a little warmer.

Paul Lancaster

As we look what has transpired in soccer the last 15-20 years, it's incredible to see what's happened.

Tab Ramos

Soccer is cruel. We were all over Arsenal. They didn't even have a shot at goal. I'm very proud of my team because we have demonstrated to Europe what we can do.

Fernando Roig

The first goal we scored was great and I think it was some of the best soccer we have played. We knocked a couple of passes around and hit a good cross in and just touched it in.

Marc Nesci

We had numerous chances. In any game it probably would've been six-nil us. But for some reason, the soccer gods weren't with us today.

Terri Swaney

It was a clean kick and if it was soccer, he would've scored a goal. It would be a big loss for them. David Bolland is a 130-point scorer but he's more than that. He's a great penalty killer and he does a lot for that team.

Bobby Ryan

That was great. I didn't quite know what was going on. I thought there was going to be some sort of FFA (Future Farmers of America) show on the soccer field.

Allen Baker

We've had a consistent pattern with our focus on good possession soccer. ... I thought we put together 70 minutes of consistent soccer, a really good group effort.

Rob Bohlmann

After they got their first goal, we just came out ready to play, ... That's the best soccer we've played the entire year as far as moving the ball around. Today we controlled the ball. We had a lot of through-balls that were pretty today.

Michael Taylor

Our goalie Ryan Bock had the most incredible save I have ever seen in high school soccer. He stopped a shot that should have gone in and then got back up to stop another shot. Even the ref, who is supposed to be impartial, was clapping. It was a real morale booster.

Dave Molina

Only part time. We can't keep up between the basketball, swimming and Girl Scouts. And soccer is starting soon.

Jane Reed

It helps me sprint through the whole game. That is the hard part of soccer. It's straight 45 minutes of running back and forth until the half. It's constant running.

Nicky Courtney

Our mission is to bring people back to the dinner table as a family, with healthy meals. It's a great thing for the market, because Williamson County has lots of soccer moms ? me included.

Phemie Tan

If Blake (was) not a soccer player, he'd fit in on the football team as a wide receiver or defensive back because he's that athletic and, quite honestly, that tough.

Dave Shelbourne

Our soccer is in crisis. We need to fix it now or suffer serious consequences.

Sibusiso Zuma

I've just got to give the kids credit for playing smart, organized soccer. We had some great individual efforts there to get the goals in. We had some other great flashes of just great soccer.

Jon Pearlman

I'm happy for my guys to see what it's like to play a good, tight, tough soccer game. Both teams played a great game.

Dave Molina

They are mostly parents and teachers, but there are also a lot of people just interested in soccer in general. So currently, for every 10 kids we have a volunteer; we're fortunate in that sense.

Chris Irizarry

No former Cosmos will be involved with this soccer club.

Marc De Grandpre

They have been playing soccer together since they were nine or 10 years old through the [Coral Springs Renegades Soccer Club]. They know each other well, get along really well and read each other really well.

Laura Rountree

He was always sports-minded. He played soccer and in ninth grade was (Conneaut Valley's) starting goalie. He was very successful.

Frank Godina

We've made some changes over the past few months, such as recently adding new athletic fields -- for soccer, football, lacrosse and varsity baseball -- by the end of this past summer before starting the actual construction for the building.

Paul Rodio

The seniors have really rallied the team and embraced what we're doing. They're focused on soccer ... the future starts now.

Matt Walton

Josh Cooper is just playing phenomenal soccer for us right now. And sweeper Dale Price is doing a great job as well.

Brent Walston

We want all youth soccer teams to play the same soccer. We intend also to create a single selection system.

Vitaly Mutko

Now, we have no seniors. That means we have a similar situation to two years ago when we had a big, competitive group of juniors fighting over starting spots. They're all good soccer players, very versatile and athletic, but it's hard to find the right chemistry. I hope we can continue to do that.

Phil Larsen

We missed a lot of opportunities to put East away. We got a lot of girls in today and that was good. We're focusing on playing our best soccer at the end of the season and despite our record, we're on pace to be doing that. There's no reason for us to hang our heads right now.

Nate Cleveland

Most players on the team only have one or two years experience. Soccer and field hockey strategy as far as field positioning is very similar. The only difference is that you're hitting the ball with a stick instead of your foot.

Josh Almond

It is definitely feasible to play soccer at Minute Maid Park.

Rob Matwick

Sometimes when you have no pressure is when you play your best soccer. We have to definitely match their intensity and build on what we've done the past two months of the season.

Pablo Mastroeni

If it comes down to just soccer, we feel pretty good about our chances, that we can pretty much play with anybody. But you have unknown factors in a game, be it officials, crowds, other players. Those are things you gotta be smarter about, mature about, and still play within what we say we're going to do.

Ryan Leniski

These guys have been around long enough to know that HF-L, of all the teams we play, plays the best game of soccer, ... Each year that you play these guys you know that you have no choice but to be very intense and try to be physical. It's a big win for us. I thought the kids played very well.

Jim Tobin

That was an ugly exhibition of soccer.

Troy Moore

We don't like to pack it in against MLS teams. We like to see if we can go out and play soccer.

Buzz Lagos

What a great soccer game. I thought my kids really deserved it. I thought we had them on their heals most of the game. We didn't have that many chances offensively, but,boy, when we needed it, someone stuck it in the net. What a great feeling to be heading the finals.

Paul Sather

It's astonishing. And with the 10 players we've got playing college soccer now, plus the ones who will join them in years to come, there is no sign of any letup. Soccer is a great game, and the experiences it leads to are phenomenal.

Dan Woog

It's a really good school, I like Durango, it's a good soccer program and I like the coach. And they were really interested in me throughout the entire recruiting process.

Nichole Kluk

I love high school soccer, just the competition of it. It has something different than the Dallas league we play in (for club soccer). We have something more to work toward, like state and all that. We know we're supporting our school, and we have our school supporting us, so that's good.

Kylee Hix

They (Maryville High School) have playing and practice venues all across the city. For example, baseball will play at Maryville College soccer at John Sevier School, so we're really just all over. It becomes a real logistical nightmare for one person.

Joe Black

It's close to home and I get a chance to keep playing soccer. I wasn't ready to give it up.

Brandy Watts

Soccer is more than a national sport. It's a national narrative.

Beppe Severgnini

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

Hakeem Olajuwon

Our effort is phenomenal. ( Cassie ) Coffer is all over the court. We use her to do everything. Coffer, ( Emma ) Cunningham and ( Rachel ) Kikkert are also three of my soccer players, so they're used to playing hard.

Lane Lewallen

People say that if you want to play soccer in college you have to play for us, all we do is steer kids in the right direction, then give them a kick in the pants for motivation.

Casey Korkus

I want to apologize to my teammates, the fans, the club and Major League Soccer for my actions. What I did was wrong, and I am deeply sorry for what happened. It was a frustrating night and I let the emotions get the best of me.

Christian Gomez

They basically played four plus hours of soccer and worked hard every minute. I can only hope that they continue their hard work and are now hungry for that win in league.

Stephanie Dietz

We were all surprised at how good he was at soccer.

Chris Wallinger

We're really clicking right now. Our battle cry right now is 14-0 because that's something that no other (Coppell girls soccer) team has done.

Chris Stricker

Ping-Pong had six people watching it; soccer had a lot more. So the decision was easy.

Juli Veee

And we usually order three to four more times the food than we do for a regular (weekend of soccer).

Theresa Collins

When you look at the numbers all the other regions get as far as getting players, their numbers are far greater than ours as far as kids playing soccer. We would be considered the underdogs of the entire four teams.

Ajit Korgaokar

This is potentially a really good thing for me. Allowing me to focus solely on my soccer for a while is really fantastic.

Craig Waibel

It will take someone knowledgeable in soccer and able to handle all of those other things besides coaching.

Ron Hutcheson

That kid (Williams) is just phenomenal. He has everything you need in a soccer player. He's got the skills; he's got the leadership, and he's got the talent.

Duane Despain