Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.
When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
I may not have played men's football, but I've been at World Cups as a player. I know the emotions. I've been in quarter finals, a semi-final. I'd been substituted and sat on the bench watching us lose a penalty shoot-out. I know what happens, what you need when the pressure's on.
I'm ready to help China realize its football dream. I think China can be a major player on the world stage one day.
We, as a nation, have always worshipped cricket and cricket players, and even football. But kabaddi and kushti are seen fit only for villagers. That's changing now.
I made the wrong decision many times. Sometimes I can accept it, sometimes not because football is like that. But in the end it depends on yourself and whether you are ready to move on or not.
Football is pretty much played 16 times a year, where training is kind of a year-round thing.
If you're a young kid out there, put away your Twitter accounts if you want to be a pro football player. Somebody's going to hack your account; somebody's going to cause you problems.
There's a lot of young talent. I felt strongly that we wanted somebody with a great football mind who'd make it their mission to succeed. And a coach, likewise. Somebody young, energetic, open.
For me, it's always fun. You're playing football and living out your dream.
My dad played football, too, in the former Yugoslavia.
Football, like boxing, will never go away, just occupy a different role in the American zeitgeist.
People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.
