American Quotes

I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.

I like the guys on the team and the coaching here. I especially like the management. The Galaxy have been really good to me.

I know a lot of people didn't understand why I came back, and people are still going to say it was stupid and it was the wrong decision. But I'm happy.

I don't like the same old thing all the time.

I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I am someone who enjoys change.

I definitely do like change. I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I don't like the same old thing all the time.

I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them.

I am both honored and blessed to have had such a wonderful career with the L.A. Galaxy and I am thankful for everything the club, the fans and the community has done for me and my family.

I am a kid from the '70s, when video games first started coming out, so I definitely have to say I am a video game junkie to this day.

Being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy.

As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career.

After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.

I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation.

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.

Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.

The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep.

If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.