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“[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the final minutes of a desperately close promotion campaign?”
“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.”
“If you're a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I'm watching, you know, Netherlands soccer.”
“Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.”
“I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.”
“The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.”
“What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.”
“At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.”
“It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of comm...”
