"I don't wish it on anybody. Being a goalkeeper is extremely difficult. But I've been around long enough to know that these things do happen, they've happened to me before. You just hope that they happen few and far between."

-- U.S. keeper Hope Solo after she allowed Colombian Catalina Usme to beat her twice on free kicks in a 2-2 tie that closed out group play in Olympic women's soccer. (AP)

"In the big picture it's not going to mean the difference between soccer 'making it' or not in this country, but the problem is that every four years with the Olympics and every four years with the World Cup, there's a unique opportunity to showcase our sport and showcase our team. And we're losing that. We lost that last Olympics, and we lost that this Olympics. There are a lot of casual fans who don't normally watch soccer. And they would've been tuning in."

-- Landon Donovan on the USA missing out -- again -- on playing in men's soccer at the Olympics, where he played in 2000 when the USA finished fourth. (New York Daily News)

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