Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.

It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.

Don't whine. Find the positive in difficult situations.

To some, challenges are exhausting. To others, they are opportunities in waiting.

The smartest thing is knowing that I don't know it all and that there's more to learn.

Have a vision and then create your own reality. Otherwise, someone else may create it for you.

Coaching soccer, like disciplines including journalism, you'll always learn if you're open to it, you'll learn from your players. If that's being smart, fair enough.

When you set a goal, write it down and then it's like making a promise to yourself.

I don't know how smart I am, but I was a student of the game and I still watch games and still pick up things. If you watch individual players you will see genius.

Talent is not enough. It's an important component in a successful performance, but it's really only a starting point.

If I win, I attract other good players and by doing that I win more games.

Undeniable obsession of words that quickens my spirit.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

I dive all over the world: Fiji, Australia, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and many other places.

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.

Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.

I'm an experienced woman; I've been around. ... Well, all right, I might not've been around, but I've been ... nearby.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

No human beings, regardless of who they might be, want to look directly at their own shortcomings.

The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.