After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.
By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.
Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.
Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.
Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'
I started playing soccer when I was 4 because my sister was doing it. It was my first organized sport, and my parents thought this was a great way to get coordinated and be part of a team. I had an array of options but eventually figured out soccer was best for me.
When I wrapped 'Falling Skies,' I took a trip to the Caribbean to visit my grandma, which is great. I was out there for two weeks in Grenada. Then after that, I went to Poland for two and a half weeks to go watch some of the European soccer championships.
Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.
It's a lot tougher to play soccer and make it look believable. But in boxing, it was easier for me. I got injured a lot more in the soccer world. In soccer, I pulled muscles. I thought boxing was going to be tougher.
I love soccer. That's all I ever watch. I'll watch it all day if I can. But I'm too bloody old to play now.
I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.
Germany is where I had to become a true professional. They play in big games when they are young. We could model some of our soccer system after what they do.
It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.
Soccer is a cruel sport sometimes.
I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than soccer.
Soccer was my first love, and I enjoyed playing on the left wing until a groin injury forced me out of the game in 2008.
We seem to want one vehicle to carry people and soccer balls and hay bales.
My wish is that soccer in the U.S. become on the same level like the Premier League, Spanish league, or the Bundesliga.
Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what - it's not. It's rough as guts. It's great.
I love soccer.
By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply.
I can be a tennis player, a golf player, and even a soccer player.
At six years old, our son had friends who played soccer from 4 P.M. to 7 P.M., Monday through Friday. A six-year-old practicing as much as a Division I athlete.
All three of my kids play soccer. Each one of them started from the time they were about 5 or 6, and we just love it.
Soccer and ping-pong are my two favorite sports to play.
If you're a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I'm watching, you know, Netherlands soccer.
I want to know I made women's soccer better than it was when I came into it.
I love all sports! I'm always impressed by athletes. I also love watching the Olympic Games. In high school, I played co-ed soccer and basketball. I really enjoyed both of those sports, but I have to admit basketball wasn't my calling.
I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.
I play on a soccer team.
Even though professional soccer has become more about business and less about the game itself, I still believe football is a party for the legs that play it and for the eyes that watch it.
I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.
My daughters are both funny and smart and lots of fun. They play lacrosse, soccer, musical instruments, like to cook with me, and are naturals in the swimming pool. Honestly, though, what I like doing most with them is eating. I've worked really hard to make sure they are willing to try all sorts of different foods.
I really believe what people have said before, that God is love. For me, it's music. For you, it might be writing, or for somebody else, it might be soccer or whatever.
I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
In July 2011, U.S. Soccer announced that they'd fired Bob Bradley and hired Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach. Jurgen had once been a world-class German striker; now he was regarded as a successful, if controversial, coach.
