I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.
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Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.
I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.
Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.
Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.
Sports is the common denominator in the world that brings everyone together. If there's any one place in the world where there is equality, it is probably sports. That was something that didn't always exist. We've come a long way in sports. Why can't society use sports as a way to bring people together and create change?
Sports are a microcosm of society.
I mean, sports are big, big, big business.
Soccer is the most widely played sport in the U.S.
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