“When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped t...” — Rabih Alameddine Quote

“When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.”

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

“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.”

“Paddle boarding: it's the closest you get to walking on water.”

“My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.”

“I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.”