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ETHAN ZOHN I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother ...
RONALDINHO![]()
Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I al...
DANIEL ESPINOSA It was a school of 55,000 people, but all I knew were soccer players.
AMOS MAGEE In my prior daily routine in Santiago, where the Jewish population is quite small, my main contacts ...
MATIAS MONDSCHEIN The players were issued individual letters. They were not supposed to play any competitive soccer at...
LEE STERREY![]()
My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
MICHAEL JORDAN My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and t...
FREDDY ADU![]()
My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
MICHAEL JORDAN My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
DAN JENKINS My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
HAKEEM OLAJUWON My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players,
HAKEEM OLAJUWON A lot of time, people were worried about hitting other players than they were about playing the ball...
IVAN FLORES That's the key. It's getting the players involved in club soccer, for us and for them. And the more ...
GARY LARKINS![]()
I came out of high school, where my heroes were, like, Michael Jordan and a lot of local rugby playe...
JOEL EDGERTON She's one of the players I could always count on. She understands what it means to play soccer in th...
ERIC MILES Soccer players can do it for 90 minutes in all positions!
DANIEL R. EVANS![]()
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
ANDREW YOUNG Soccer's not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who h...
TIFFENY MILBRETT![]()
Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH![]()
My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forwa...
JOHN HUGHES![]()
The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.
IRA HAYES![]()
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good w...
JAMES D. WATSON My heroes were always Looney Toons, Robin Williams, the Three Stooges. I think everything I do is ki...
BEN FOSTER![]()
Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life.
JUDD NELSON Soccer is losing a pianist. He was always so at ease with the ball, his feet were like hands.
LUIS FERNANDEZ Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like...
WILLIAM BELL Last year, we were 11 freshmen just trying to get by. This year, with the transfers from junior coll...
JAY ENTLICH![]()
One of my heroes has always been Barbie. She may not do anything, but she always looks amazing doing...
PARIS HILTON Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs ...
IAN BOTHAM I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in coll...
HAMPTON SIDES Soccer is my life.
ETHAN ZOHN It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.
RICHARD DONNER They are definitely Division I athletes and soccer players. They're a kick to have on any team.
GREG FISH It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON We were looking for a unique cultural experience for the kids, a soccer culture, someplace where soc...
WAYNE QUINLAN It's good for Brazilian football to have idols, stars, big stars coming back to Brazilian clubs....
NEYMAR![]()
It's a tremendous honor, but I played with some great players and coached some great players. We alw...
JIM FOWLER They were all buried in different graves and now they're together with their buddies. They're my her...
CLIFF REED![]()
Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He...
MICKEY MANTLE I have a hard time talking about myself. It was much more than just an individual, ... We had a grou...
MARCELO BALBOA Oliver Kahn will be in the ad because he belongs to the best soccer players in the world.
JAN RUNAU I think it is an important award because no one can judge soccer better than the players themselves,
RONALDINHO When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronald...
RONALDINHO![]()
I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a ...
DAMIEN HIRST I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Arg...
J. D. PARDO![]()
My heroes are guys like Frank Capra and Elia Kazan and Coen brothers and Terry Gilliam, more so than...
LES CLAYPOOL![]()
I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10...
TONY BENNETT![]()
I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Sa...
LOUIS SACHAR You always have a think about it (captaining) but there were always players who were there for longe...
MARK VIDUKA![]()
Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There...
JAKE SHIMABUKURO We're excited to have Manny back in the Thunder fold and have created opportunities for aspiring soc...
DJORN BUCHHOLZ![]()
Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in.
MARKUS ZUSAK![]()
I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, s...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer an...
LEWIS GORDON PUGH I always tell my players, 'I want you to be abnormal,'
DAN HAWKINS![]()
We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn...
A.W. TOZER The first heroes of 9/11 were here.
BRIAN ROHRBAUGH I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis...
DOUG DAVIDSON He's always with a ball. Whenever you see him, he's always playing with a soccer ball.
ALAN PONCE They are telling the players 'We'll fire you and you'll never play soccer again, ... Why else did th...
CARLOS GONZALEZ Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give m...
BOBBY CHARLTON I want young girls to dream about being professional soccer players instead of just watching the boy...
ALEX MORGAN The MNST is made up of the best players in the country still playing amateur soccer. It's a great ho...
CHRIS WATKINS![]()
After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were wi...
BRANDI CHASTAIN My game is based on improvisation. Often, a forward does not have the time to think too much. You ha...
RONALDINHO Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.
RONALDINHO For me soccer provides so many emotions, a different feeling every day. I've had the good fortun...
RONALDINHO If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved drib...
RONALDINHO Brazil go into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil, it is expected even more....
RONALDINHO Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. ...
RONALDINHO My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... bec...
RONALDINHO I am ugly, but what I do have is charm.
RONALDINHO I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me e...
RONALDINHO I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and...
RONALDINHO I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing...
RONALDINHO Ashley Cole is a fantastic defender. I have seen him keep the best players in the world quiet.
RONALDINHO The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can&#...
RONALDINHO I remember seeing Eric Cantona play for Manchester United. The way he used to control games was spec...
RONALDINHO Football is a great love because I was born into a family of players and therefore born into footbal...
RONALDINHO My best has to be for Barcelona against Villarreal in 2006 - that is the one I am asked most about, ...
RONALDINHO I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have...
RONALDINHO I'm pleased firstly because of the win and secondly for helping the team with my goals. It's a good ...
RONALDINHO![]()
I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my...
HALSEY I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them... I always felt more c...
TRACEY ULLMAN Soccer has never really run my life.
BRIAN MCBRIDE But this week (the high school campers) is the week I look forward to the most. For five days, socce...
ALAN MEEDER It's great to have the best players on your team. Last year we brought some players from Mexico. Tho...
ANTONIO CUE The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clin...
ADAM BALDWIN I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just lo...
CHEECH MARIN You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not ...
MIKE HUCKABEE![]()
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
H. L. MENCKEN![]()
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
H. L. MENCKEN![]()
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
JOHN GAY My favorite sports are soccer, hockey and volleyball.
BRIAN MCBRIDE Great soccer is inspiring, on the street and in the stadium, and Nike is in Berlin today to celebrat...
CHARLIE DENSON We've always played three guards in certain instances over the years. A number of programs do that. ...
JAMIE DIXON Our effort is phenomenal. ( Cassie ) Coffer is all over the court. We use her to do everything. Coff...
LANE LEWALLEN I have great memories of my years in Edmonton and the players who were my teammates.
PAUL COFFEY She is our best defensive player. Carly is very strong and aggressive and could play on a lot of boy...
ART WEAVER
ETHAN ZOHN I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother ...
RONALDINHO
Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I al... DANIEL ESPINOSA It was a school of 55,000 people, but all I knew were soccer players.
AMOS MAGEE In my prior daily routine in Santiago, where the Jewish population is quite small, my main contacts ...
MATIAS MONDSCHEIN The players were issued individual letters. They were not supposed to play any competitive soccer at...
LEE STERREY
My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes. MICHAEL JORDAN My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and t...
FREDDY ADU
My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes. MICHAEL JORDAN My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
DAN JENKINS My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
HAKEEM OLAJUWON My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players,
HAKEEM OLAJUWON A lot of time, people were worried about hitting other players than they were about playing the ball...
IVAN FLORES That's the key. It's getting the players involved in club soccer, for us and for them. And the more ...
GARY LARKINS
I came out of high school, where my heroes were, like, Michael Jordan and a lot of local rugby playe... JOEL EDGERTON She's one of the players I could always count on. She understands what it means to play soccer in th...
ERIC MILES Soccer players can do it for 90 minutes in all positions!
DANIEL R. EVANS
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers. ANDREW YOUNG Soccer's not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who h...
TIFFENY MILBRETT
Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives. CHRIS HEMSWORTH
My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forwa... JOHN HUGHES
The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles. IRA HAYES
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good w... JAMES D. WATSON My heroes were always Looney Toons, Robin Williams, the Three Stooges. I think everything I do is ki...
BEN FOSTER
Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life. JUDD NELSON Soccer is losing a pianist. He was always so at ease with the ball, his feet were like hands.
LUIS FERNANDEZ Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like...
WILLIAM BELL Last year, we were 11 freshmen just trying to get by. This year, with the transfers from junior coll...
JAY ENTLICH
One of my heroes has always been Barbie. She may not do anything, but she always looks amazing doing... PARIS HILTON Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs ...
IAN BOTHAM I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in coll...
HAMPTON SIDES Soccer is my life.
ETHAN ZOHN It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.
RICHARD DONNER They are definitely Division I athletes and soccer players. They're a kick to have on any team.
GREG FISH It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON We were looking for a unique cultural experience for the kids, a soccer culture, someplace where soc...
WAYNE QUINLAN It's good for Brazilian football to have idols, stars, big stars coming back to Brazilian clubs....
NEYMAR
It's a tremendous honor, but I played with some great players and coached some great players. We alw... JIM FOWLER They were all buried in different graves and now they're together with their buddies. They're my her...
CLIFF REED
Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He... MICKEY MANTLE I have a hard time talking about myself. It was much more than just an individual, ... We had a grou...
MARCELO BALBOA Oliver Kahn will be in the ad because he belongs to the best soccer players in the world.
JAN RUNAU I think it is an important award because no one can judge soccer better than the players themselves,
RONALDINHO When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronald...
RONALDINHO
I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a ... DAMIEN HIRST I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Arg...
J. D. PARDO
My heroes are guys like Frank Capra and Elia Kazan and Coen brothers and Terry Gilliam, more so than... LES CLAYPOOL
I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10... TONY BENNETT
I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Sa... LOUIS SACHAR You always have a think about it (captaining) but there were always players who were there for longe...
MARK VIDUKA
Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There... JAKE SHIMABUKURO We're excited to have Manny back in the Thunder fold and have created opportunities for aspiring soc...
DJORN BUCHHOLZ
Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in. MARKUS ZUSAK
I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, s... PHILIP ZIMBARDO Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer an...
LEWIS GORDON PUGH I always tell my players, 'I want you to be abnormal,'
DAN HAWKINS
We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn... A.W. TOZER The first heroes of 9/11 were here.
BRIAN ROHRBAUGH I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis...
DOUG DAVIDSON He's always with a ball. Whenever you see him, he's always playing with a soccer ball.
ALAN PONCE They are telling the players 'We'll fire you and you'll never play soccer again, ... Why else did th...
CARLOS GONZALEZ Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give m...
BOBBY CHARLTON I want young girls to dream about being professional soccer players instead of just watching the boy...
ALEX MORGAN The MNST is made up of the best players in the country still playing amateur soccer. It's a great ho...
CHRIS WATKINS
After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were wi... BRANDI CHASTAIN My game is based on improvisation. Often, a forward does not have the time to think too much. You ha...
RONALDINHO Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.
RONALDINHO For me soccer provides so many emotions, a different feeling every day. I've had the good fortun...
RONALDINHO If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved drib...
RONALDINHO Brazil go into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil, it is expected even more....
RONALDINHO Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. ...
RONALDINHO My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... bec...
RONALDINHO I am ugly, but what I do have is charm.
RONALDINHO I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me e...
RONALDINHO I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and...
RONALDINHO I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing...
RONALDINHO Ashley Cole is a fantastic defender. I have seen him keep the best players in the world quiet.
RONALDINHO The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can&#...
RONALDINHO I remember seeing Eric Cantona play for Manchester United. The way he used to control games was spec...
RONALDINHO Football is a great love because I was born into a family of players and therefore born into footbal...
RONALDINHO My best has to be for Barcelona against Villarreal in 2006 - that is the one I am asked most about, ...
RONALDINHO I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have...
RONALDINHO I'm pleased firstly because of the win and secondly for helping the team with my goals. It's a good ...
RONALDINHO
I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my... HALSEY I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them... I always felt more c...
TRACEY ULLMAN Soccer has never really run my life.
BRIAN MCBRIDE But this week (the high school campers) is the week I look forward to the most. For five days, socce...
ALAN MEEDER It's great to have the best players on your team. Last year we brought some players from Mexico. Tho...
ANTONIO CUE The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clin...
ADAM BALDWIN I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just lo...
CHEECH MARIN You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not ...
MIKE HUCKABEE
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. H. L. MENCKEN
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. H. L. MENCKEN
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. JOHN GAY My favorite sports are soccer, hockey and volleyball.
BRIAN MCBRIDE Great soccer is inspiring, on the street and in the stadium, and Nike is in Berlin today to celebrat...
CHARLIE DENSON We've always played three guards in certain instances over the years. A number of programs do that. ...
JAMIE DIXON Our effort is phenomenal. ( Cassie ) Coffer is all over the court. We use her to do everything. Coff...
LANE LEWALLEN I have great memories of my years in Edmonton and the players who were my teammates.
PAUL COFFEY She is our best defensive player. Carly is very strong and aggressive and could play on a lot of boy...
ART WEAVER
