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

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.

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.

If I win, I attract other good players and by doing that I win more games.

Remembering is easy. It's forgetting that's hard.

Governments can do both great and stupid things.

A risk is a risk because it's avoidable.

I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

We are all impacted by the failings of a news media that almost always chooses which stories to cover according to the priorities and perspectives of white men with private educations.

Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to his Sun Records. I don't want to dig him up out of the grave.

No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.

When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.

I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.