"Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they're trying to promote it. At the end of the day it's about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play."

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Source : Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

Ian Rush

#Soccer Quotes #Moving Quotes #Player Quotes

“I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.”
“It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.”
“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.”
“After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that this mind may be steadfast in us, and that through these our hands, and the hands of others to whom thou shalt give the same spirit, thou wilt vouchsafe to endow the human family with new mercies". That is still a good prayer for all of us as we begin the twenty-first century.”
“When I was younger I dated women. I even got engaged. I thought I had to live a certain way. I thought I needed to marry a woman and raise kids with her. I kept telling myself the sky was red, but I always knew it was blue.”

Source : "Jason Collins Comes Out: NBA Player Becomes First Openly Gay Professional Male Athlete In Major Sport", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2013.
“Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.”

Source : Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher
“I hate the word famous because it has no substance.”
“The one key difference is that Puerto Rico is a colonial territory. We don't have representation. We have a difficult time getting funding from the federal government. This is critical component that we need to change.”

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