If you put good people around you, I guess you're smart. You learn from them and that makes you a better coach.

It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.

Don't whine. Find the positive in difficult situations.

To some, challenges are exhausting. To others, they are opportunities in waiting.

The smartest thing is knowing that I don't know it all and that there's more to learn.

Have a vision and then create your own reality. Otherwise, someone else may create it for you.

Coaching soccer, like disciplines including journalism, you'll always learn if you're open to it, you'll learn from your players. If that's being smart, fair enough.

When you set a goal, write it down and then it's like making a promise to yourself.

I don't know how smart I am, but I was a student of the game and I still watch games and still pick up things. If you watch individual players you will see genius.

Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.

Talent is not enough. It's an important component in a successful performance, but it's really only a starting point.

The blatant harassment of electromagnetic radiation researchers should be expected to be a feature of transitioning out of the energy based economies.

You're always a work in progress. Flexibility. Personality. Motivation. There's always room to improve.

That's what metal means to me, feeling that feeling when you hear something that totally turns you on.

Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away

Parents can't indulge our fears. We're supposed to make our kids feel safe, even if we don't feel safe ourselves.

My prodding me didn't elicit a reaction. His unseeing eyes stared straight through me. Which was odd. He'd seemed so sane huddled in Cookie's trunk.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.

I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future.