I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.

Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.

I used to focus more on scoring. Now I take a lot of pride and pleasure in helping someone else do well.

I love winning and any team I'm on, I expect to win.

Ten years ago, the level was nowhere near what it is today. (on soccer in the United States)

As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

I sure am handsome. I cant lie. This is one handsome guy.

The second-highest honor is playing for your country, and the highest honor is wearing the armband for your country. It shows that the players have confidence in me, and that feels good.

I've got a lot to prove to a lot of people, including myself.

Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

There are actors who just bring an enormous amount of empathy. They just have that"it" that makes you want to follow them and root for them.

For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.

A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.

I would love to meet some directors, and why not do some other movies in America? But, I'm not obsessed with this idea. I'm feeling very free in Europe.

Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.

I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.