You can't have assistant coaches who aren't loyal - but you can learn a lot from your assistant coaches.

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.

To take the island, cut all sources of retreat. Burn your boats and go all in.

Each one has their gifts. They are not for you- they are to give!

If I didn't start painting I would have raised chickens.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

I just want to make a tray of good tofu. If people want something else, they should go to the restaurants and shops.