He was a good, good man, very involved in the lives of his two teenage daughters, ... He was a big soccer coach. His wife and family were number one.

Joseph Allen

They may be more rested than we are. But we're going to have a great game against a great team and in soccer anything can happen.

Hernan Medford

We were not playing our best soccer and at halftime I gave the old Rudy speech. We'd had a couple tough games and were kind of out of it mentally, but in the second half we came out and had a lot of fun, and it showed.

Rob Moran

I've been very pleased with how we've played. Our focus has been on getting better defensively, and I'm excited about what I've been seeing in both practice and games. Our veterans are playing smart, disciplined soccer and a lot of our younger players are getting quality playing time and valuable experience.

Bobby Kramig

We were celebrating a little and they took it personally, and I don't know why. This game wasn't about soccer, it was about who wanted it the most. People were sliding all over the park. We wanted to have more possession in the second half but they defended well and we had to dig deep.

Shalrie Joseph

We have also planned out a time for us to go play Power Soccer at the Rockford Park District, which is an adapted form of soccer played in chairs. And we have planned for Joel Berman coming to give a talk.

Lisa Gagliano

Nobody likes to lose, but the kids have been working hard and nobody's hanging their head. We have a lot of kids who also play baseball, basketball, and hockey, so soccer isn't their first sport. We don't have the best skills, but we play with a lot of hustle and determination.

Charles Dyer

I used to be more into basketball because I have a goal at home. I would shoot hoops with my cousins, but now I really like soccer. It's a real man's game.

Lawrence Davis

We have Americans, Latin, African-American, Jamaican. We have a little bit of everything. There's a lot of people that like soccer and they come and play here.

Hector Moreno

My parents didn't want me going to school here at first because they thought we weren't going to have a girls' team. They said, 'Why even come if you can't play soccer?' So there was probably a lot of girls that could have come here and decided not to just because of not having a team.

Ariel Cavanaugh

They're winning so many games right now and I don't want them to get a big head. Because once (playoffs) come they can't relax and they need to get the job done and play their best soccer.

Jon Domingo

They all know how to play soccer. They all know how to play in big games.

Chris Steinmetz

(North Smithfield) won more 50/50 balls than we did, today, ... In soccer, especially on a raw, windy day, the team that wins the most 50/50 balls are most likely to come out on top.

Richard Grenier

Mom, it's soccer, get over it, ... Besides, would I get in the way of you and God?

John Newby

Dave has three interests in life. Soccer, hockey and food.

Jerry Schwartz

We have a great student-body here, just a lot of school pride. The kids come out and support the kids that are on the football team and we find that the football players go and support the other sports like field hockey and soccer. We really try to promote school pride.

Mike Tkach

It was not easy coming from the Sudamericana Cup to play tonight ... and to actually go out and play soccer.

Peter Nowak

The Saturn Challenge Cup is a key preparation match for the 2006 MLS season. It's a great opportunity to showcase two of Major League Soccer's top teams to a booming soccer market.

Michael Hitchcock

With the growth of women's soccer in this country, we feel like we're going to bring a very special product to the community. We're very optimistic that it's going to be something special. We're very close to an agreement on a home field, but we still have some questions that remain unanswered at this point.

Chris Price

All these guys have played a lot of soccer with a lot of different players. They've played on regional teams, club teams, national teams, so I think almost everywhere we go, inevitably there's players that know one another.

Steve Swanson

We played the best soccer that we have played in a long time.

Jaime Betancur

So much (of soccer) is linked with cities and towns. We don't see franchises, as you do, that go from one place to another.

Beppe Severgnini

They use the whole field and it's pretty soccer. It's not just kick the (crud) out of the ball and try to outrun everybody. We just have a team that can do several different things, that is what separates us.

Chris Woodard

In all of the soccer games, it's inches. That's just the way it is.

Wayne Cross

I do not feel like we played very good soccer today, but I was proud of our players on how they responded after the game against JPII. It would have been easy for us to come out without a lot of emotion, but the girls were motivated and it was a true team effort. This was a big win for the Ooltewah High School soccer program today. The girls should be very proud of themselves.

Curtis Blair

To be an owner of a team is something I dream of doing once I retire. Maybe even a soccer team and a basketball team. I can't see myself away from basketball if I retire at 30 or 40. That would be something to look at in the future.

Andrew Bogut

She came out of nowhere to clear the ball. It's our first win in seven games, so it feels pretty good. We are building. It's the first time we've played 80 minutes of soccer.

Jon Hammond

You play lacrosse, you hit with a stick. You play hockey, you push a stick around. Soccer, you're tackling people. Some of the research shows that if you get involved in competitive sports, it raises your testosterone level, whether you're a boy or a girl.

James Garbarino

This is the best soccer we've played. I think a lot of people underestimated us at the beginning of the year. They've exceeded any expectations I had of them.

Jennifer Henderson

These are the higher echelon for our group, which will help create and organize the program. This is all voluntary, and we have a lot of good people with good input about the game; some are from [established soccer programs] in West New York and North Bergen.

Chris Irizarry

I'm sure they talk a lot. I'm sure it's a lot about soccer, but I'm also sure a lot of it's not. It's about life and how they're enjoying their different experiences and things like that.

Steve Swanson

This is a fantastic moment for online video, with full-length traditional TV shows and live feeds of international soccer matches coming online to augment the rich content already there. Orb Networks is pioneering the instant enjoyment on mobile devices of all that content.

Brian Mccarthy

You may be in Georgia thinking, 'Gee, I wonder how soccer moms in Kansas feel about that issue,' .

Ian Bogost

The hard games are still to come, but girls soccer has made a big leap forward already this year at Howard.

Paul Eyes

The corner kick right before half was nice and the minute Alex hit that corner, I said that's a great ball. Ben went hard and it was a super head - you couldn't have a better corner to a head. That's real soccer. It just went boom.

Doug Kilby

It's not every day that a player of Kenny Cooper's caliber leaves one of the top club teams in the world to pursue his dream of playing professional soccer in his hometown. This is a great day for FC Dallas, Major League Soccer and the entire Dallas Soccer Community.

Michael Hitchcock

This tournament presents the perfect opportunity for South Africa?s up and coming soccer talent to come to the fore against an international club of the magnitude of Manchester United.

Kaizer Motaung

I was never calm and always on edge about Bullard coming back. Once we got the second goal I was more comfortable but, still, you just don't know. Soccer is just a sport that things go up and down and you never know what's going to happen.

Neil Deans

We played small-sided soccer and it was really fast moving so I guess that really improved our first touch and helped us be quick on the ball. I think that carried into today.

Katherine Macmurray

It?s still the first round of district, so there is still a lot of soccer to be played. Teams are trying to position themselves for the second round, and the result of our game Friday will put someone in the driver?s seat.

Luis Zarate

This was a very historic season for Andress High School, especially with the youth we're putting on the field. This is about the future now, and the great thing about the future of Andress soccer is, man, you're looking at it.

Max Sappenfield

Today CSKA managed to play high-level soccer, and though the season is over we've proved we still have emotions and ambitions.

Valery Gazzayev

It's been listed in high school studentsports.com as the best soccer tournament in the country in the fall, ... So, we're very honored.

Jerry Little

I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.

Lamar Hunt

Players need confidence. Playing for your country is no different from going from high school to college or from college to MLS. There are different tiers of international soccer too, from the so-called also-rans through the middle group up to the teams that can win the World Cup. It's a little quicker, players are a little faster, the passing is better and the timing of the runs is more acute.

Paul Mariner

It was a school of 55,000 people, but all I knew were soccer players.

Amos Magee

The community of soccer players is here.

Tulin Mendoza

In Italy, we talk just about football [soccer]. I don't very much like football. For me, it is not a sport. It's a show. I don't want to talk about it, especially during the Olympics.

Piero Gros

It's that time of the year when the intensity is raised. It happens every year, and I think we responded very well. We fought the battle and we also played some pretty good soccer in the meantime.

Ben Olsen

That's the key. It's getting the players involved in club soccer, for us and for them. And the more of their players and our players that play club soccer, it's only going to make both programs better.

Gary Larkins

They are telling the players 'We'll fire you and you'll never play soccer again, ... Why else did the players agree to a strike and then two days later change their minds?

Carlos Gonzalez

I've looked at facilities all over the country. And I think they will find our stadium is one of the best for soccer anywhere.

Dave Maggard

It was good for us. We got a little comfortable, and when you get in the playoffs, you don't need to be comfortable. They were good, and they slapped us around, and it woke us up to what playoff soccer was going to be like.

Mark Kluppel

It was a pleasant surprise. It puts the coach at ease right away. It allowed the girls to relax a little bit and just play soccer. It was our day.

Kenny Graham

We played really well. We can play soccer when we get down to it.

Bob Tassie

It doesn't matter that Alison played soccer, and we play field hockey. We were all classmates or teammates of Alison and it was definitely very important for us to be here.

Kelly Sullivan

We witnessed such an incident in Moscow in 2002, when soccer fans set ablaze 80 cars in the city center.

Boris Gryzlov

We'll have 26 teams coming for soccer, 17 will be unified.

Rick Ertz

I have always played softball. I never played soccer before this year, but I liked coach Grant and I wanted to be part of something new.

Kallie Johnson

I wanted to be a soccer player but my mother forced me to quit because she thought it was a dangerous sport after I got injured.

Shamil Tarpishchev

We're just hoping that we continue on our journey trying to play attractive soccer and give our kids multiple opportunities to be successful, because there's lots of opportunities against these outside opponents.

Jay Entlich

There's a lot of parity in boys soccer and a lot of good teams.

Darrell Gravatt

We want to offer our fans and the members of MYSA a way to help out the victims of this disaster. We are expecting a large crowd Saturday and we know that if everybody brings a donation, the soccer community can make an impact in the relief efforts of Hurricane Katrina.

Djorn Buchholz

That's good for his confidence because we know he's a good player and we want him to be on the pitch. That will definitely help his morale and spirit to finally get that monkey off his back. Now he can go out and play good soccer instead of worrying about scoring goals.

Tyrone Marshall

It was a teacher from Collier County and two parents of students in soccer. There was a clear field across from First Christian Church on Lee Boulevard. We had four soccer teams.

Robert Bates

He had a good handle on the international soccer scene, more so than virtually anyone else we had at the league. His legal training was a big plus.

Sunil Gulati

Everybody knows soccer is going to continue to grow. I assume eventually we're talking lights, bleachers, concession stands, aren't we? ... I can see in the future we might have to build a road from the theater ... just to handle things.

Tom Shepard

Football, soccer, rugby, lacrosse are going to probably be the priorities from an athletic facility standpoint.

Gary Pruitt

Basketball camps, soccer camps, football camps, band camps and even airplane flying camps. You name it. We got it.

Mike Schulte

Soccer, right now, is kind of his safe place because he's good at it. He's comfortable. He kind of directs the choir in the back.

Brock Heykoop

We had chance after chance, and as opportunities kept presenting themselves, we kept ourselves composed. I didn't think the game would come down so close, but this is district soccer, so anything can happen.

Mark Pearson

I guess I have good genes. Ad my youngest sister (fourth-grader Anne) plays a little bit of everything -- soccer, basketball, swimming volleyball. She's probably going to be better than all of us.

Cory Thomasson

It would be fun to do both. The best thing is, I have options. If I got hurt in soccer, I have football to fall back on.

Zach Bond

After that I will go straight to France and join my team. Honestly, one should not compare the soccer here and that in France.

Faisal Khalil

The whole key to the goal was Miller's pass. It was a beautiful pass and opened up the field. This weekend shows how closely bunched the top 25 and even the top 50 teams in the nation are in the men's soccer game. St. Louis played a great game against us and a great game against IU (a 1-1 tie on Friday and here they are with a 1-2-1 record so far.

Bobby Clark

I want to help the communities spread the popularity of soccer. We have talented athletes around. These players will be our future leaders.

John Matin

The CONCACAF Champions' Cup is one of the crown jewels of international soccer. We're proud to be the exclusive television home of the longest-running international competition in the region, as it is the perfect complement to our networks' best-in-class year-round coverage of global soccer.

David Sternberg

It was a terrible call. The kid is not going out to hurt anyone and it changed the whole game. From the second minute to the 80th minute, we played very well. I'm very proud of the way we hung in there. We actually played some good soccer.

Rob Etheridge

The team played with much better rhythm and purpose during the last game. Some of the rust looked like it was coming off. I was pleased with the progress. We have several players returning next fall and we have high expectations for the level of soccer that we should be performing at. Hopefully, we'll build on this during the coming weeks.

Rich Manning

I am sure he is here watching us and I couldn't be happier for him and for everyone involved in Australian soccer.

John Aloisi

It's an absolute shame. These soccer-knowledgeable fans are hard to come by. It doesn't make sense that a viable, historical team will be moved to a different location.

Troy Dayak

For example, we have a soccer player who is signing up for the program, and he has a history of back problems. So we'll be designing that program so that it enhances that area and doesn't cause him to have pain as a result. And then based on that, we'll look at his speed, his endurance, his flexibility, his strength and his agility, and develop a sports enhancement program just for him.

Sherri Lecompte

This is an outstanding project. It's exactly what we need to make one of the last remaining grass, soccer-only fields in the state even more attractive.

Dan Woog

There's just tons and tons of kids playing soccer. It's great for the future of our sport.

Dale Helfrich

Soccer definitely helped with my conditioning, and I felt like I got quicker. This year it was different because I didn't play. As a team we had a great summer and fall, and I wanted to focus on that.

Jeff Ryan

England is the strongest team in the group. It's [England] the birth place of soccer and this will be the first time we have faced them in an official match.

Dror Kashtan

I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.

Rod Stewart

The clubhouse lost some of its siding. On the soccer field, we had damage to the scoreboard and both of the benches were broken.

Joe Gottfried

It's not all about hard work. We try to make it as fun as we can for the kids. Aside from just soccer we have fun things like icky-sticky brownie day and dress the coaches day. To make it fun for the kids.

Daniel Meyrick

In a campus setting, it's more of a secluded feel, as opposed to a high-rise. Plus, there's room for other facilities and amenities, such as more parking or a soccer field. When groups are working together, they don't have to get on a bus and drive to another building, they can just walk.

Matthew Anderson

The people in the community have talked more about athletics than losing 7-12 busing. I've had more people in contact with me about soccer and football than about transportation.

Jeffrey Grodi

We're excited to add the Kats to our client roster. Just as with our male and female high school athletes, NFL players, professional soccer players and elite amateur athletes, our goal will be to increase the Kats' speed, power and agility and reduce risk of injury to help them win football games.

Jay Brown

We will do all we can. For us, being an Olympic sport is very, very important. Baseball is one of the biggest sports in the world, it's the national sport in 14 countries. What other sport can say that, apart from soccer?

Aldo Notari

That's why national competition is good. When you have the NCAA soccer competition, the best teams all qualify and then you bracket it out. In football, it comes down to the polls. There's value in won-lost records, but there can be misleading information in that too, if you look at it and call it the end all.

Steve Malchow

We had chances. We had looks. We played a 'B' game. There were moments where we played 'A' soccer.

Roy Jorgenson

I never knew there were so many French people in Florida. It was fun, to tell you the truth. I felt like I was at a soccer game or something with two national anthems. Hopefully we can convert some of their fans.

Mike Van Ryn

When I come to a soccer field, I can forget all about my troubles, and I can forget about all the challenges that I have in life.

Barry Gorman

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

Scotty Bowman

If he was 20 pounds heavier he probably would've been all-state. He's probably our most complete soccer player. He knows the game very well.

Tim Guter

The World Cup is a big opportunity for us. Before the Irish soccer team qualified for the World Cup in 1990, football was no way as big as it is now.

John Wright

I know that the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina have suffered a lot, and that many children have died or been injured because of mines left from the war, ... That's why I'm here, to help as much as I can. This is a small contribution for these young fellows who have to know that soccer can provide a way out from any bad situation.

Sir Bobby Charlton

We're looking forward to making a life here in Houston, and making soccer a success here.

Alejandro Moreno

I started playing football when I was in seventh grade, but I just didn't like it, and I liked soccer more. (Football is) fun and all, but soccer is more my thing.

Mike Santiago

In the winter, sometimes you get soccer rained out or early on in February, some baseball games. But to still have it rained out, it's a little frustrating. It's so hard to make games up.

Jack Daley

We told them at halftime that a two-goal lead is the most dangerous in soccer because the next goal gets all the momentum.

Will Stoskopf

Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.

Stephen Chow

When you're practicing the same thing more than 10 or 12 hours a week, the injury rate gets much higher, ... And then there are games. With soccer and baseball, some of these kids are playing 60 to 80 games between April and August. The pros don't even do that.

Eric Small

She's one of the players I could always count on. She understands what it means to play soccer in this program. She appreciated the opportunity.

Eric Miles

That's soccer. I feel bad for my seniors that worked so hard. We took a step in the right direction.

Eric Miles

The kids are scheduled with lacrosse and soccer during the nice seasons, and there seems to be little time for those types of things.

Erin Chamberlain

It was a fantastic experience. From a soccer perspective it was great because we saw professional matches and trained or played every day.

Eric Wagner

I know a lot of people who have trouble knowing how to properly head a soccer ball.

Emily Hamilton

Floro is a profound analyst of soccer. Floro knows Real Madrid well and is a Madrid fan.

Emilio Butragueno

We are in the process of getting soccer back in the schools by working with the school board, athletic director and the superintendent. At this time, things look promising.

Zack Bolt

You create your own luck. We're not playing good soccer and bad things are happening to us. We have no one to blame but ourselves.

Ezra Hendrickson

We just played good solid fundamental soccer tonight. That's what we've been looking for all year long.

Eugene Doro

Learning from your heroes increases your information retention. And these soccer players in Africa are the heroes in their community.

Ethan Zohn

In the fourth game against Cambridge the girls were just wiped out. There is a lot of soccer to be played.

Eric Steege

She (Gerry) has made the single most improvement. She will be the focus of our attack this year. In girls soccer it's hard to find a goal scorer. She has that mindset. She brings a good level of toughness to our team.

Eric Steege

Alonso works very hard, and they play with a lot of passion. They sort of got us out of our game in the beginning. Once you go one up on them, they kind of die down, and then you can play some soccer.

Eric Sims

They aren't as experienced as the other teams we play because most have never played soccer before. But most of them are athletic, because they play all sports, and they're enthusiastic.

Eric Pyron