My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.

You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.

Never assume greatness is for someone else. Imagine every day that you too can do great things. Have the courage to take the challenge, make the mistakes, and move forward.

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.

And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself.

Well there are two things: Number one is, make sure you always enjoy yourself, because when you enjoy yourself, you'll learn, you'll want more information, you'll push yourself.

So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me.

I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it.

I love soccer; I want to be on the field.

The right people make you realize fame and fortune is cool, but small moments of pure freedom is better.

No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground. [Saphira]

For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new French Foreign Legion.

To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.

I'd rather produce art than become art.

I have this complicated procedure I go through every morning, which is to look in the mirror and decide what I'm going to do. And I feel at that point, everybody's had their say.