“I’d be stupid to think I can make it as big as baseball, basketball and American football. That’s not going to happen. I’m not going there thinking I will change everything. My aim is to help the kids in America enjoy football. I’ll be involved at the grassroots with kids from eight to 15, then taking them on at the end of that and trying to keep their interest going, as that’s usually when they stop playing. Probably half of America hasn’t even heard of me.”
— David Beckham, in an interview in the Sun, the English tabloid, on his move to MLS’s Los Angeles Galaxy.