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" 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. "

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" You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together. "

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" I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool. "

" I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe. "

" The advantage doesn't come because you can run more than someone over 90 minutes. The advantage comes when, in the tenth minute, I'm sprinting back and making another guy chase me. By the end of the game, that guy's worn down, but I can still keep going at the same pace. "

" As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch. "

" Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy. "

" I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy. "

" I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role. "

" I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports. "

" There was this old soccer game called 'Goal' for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I've played everything from the old school games to the 360. "

" As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck. "

" I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis. "

" I remember - when I was little, I remember playing 'Tecmo Bowl,' and I would be so excited to be Bo Jackson in the game that I wanted to watch him play in real life. "

" A lot of times I watch sporting events, and there are things I want to say and things I see that don't get said or talked about. "

" When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly. "

" I think all players reach a point in their career where it's natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to sort of break out or be a star. "

" I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world. "

" 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. "

" Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts. "

" My brother and I have always had this theory that, as stupid as it sounds, in video games, there is a certain hand-eye coordination and a thought process that you can learn. "

" I have to be able to be honest and be credible, and I think I can say, 'This guy did not have his best game today' rather than, 'He is awful and I cannot believe he did that.' "

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

" The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give. "

" That's a part that's always a challenge for athletes: trying to keep the passion alive while knowing it's still your job. There's no question that at some point, probably sooner rather than later, I'll be pretty burned out. And when that time comes, then I'll take a step back and take a look at it and see if I want to keep going. "

" I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move. "

" I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy. "

" I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world. "

" There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula. "

" My guess is that if David Beckham wants Ronaldo's jersey, he's going to get it. "

" I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up. "