Top 60 Quotes by Rabih Alameddine

If you want to know whether soccer is big in America, pick a weekend, go to any park in the land, and pay attention. We're there. We've always been.

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.

Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.

I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.

Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.

I was gay before I began to play soccer over 40 years ago. It's been 28 years since a friend and I organized one of the first gay soccer teams in the world.

I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.

One of the things I enjoy most during the World Cup is watching a team improve, mature, and gel during the course of the tournament.