I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me.

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

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

I think Id like to be able to heal peoples pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.

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

The "r" word [racism] is a scary word to me - I don't like to say it. I'm not trying to say it doesn't exist. It's incredibly inflammatory and invites a lot of awful mistakes and injustices that have happened and still do happen. It's a word that has been thrown around in a way that incites a lot of bad feelings in most people.

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