We're professional footballers, so we have to go out there and perform as best we can and try and get the results that we want.
We love playing the game. That's why we're here. That's our job. We just want to come out and play every day.
I expect myself to do my job, and that's taking care of the football and converting third downs.
My job is to score goals.
It is my job to make runs for the country and win. That is the job I have to do.
My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
I just have to make sure that for 60 minutes, I'm going out there and doing my job, running routes the best that I can and trying to get open.
If I don't score goals or get assists, I am not doing my job.
Success in sport comes with responsibility.
Nobody ever tells me to give them a pass or anything. My job is to score goals, and if I don't shoot the puck, I can't score goals.
I try to do my best every game to help the pitchers and help my team win. That's it.
Waving the banner of my coaches is a heavy flag to wield, so it's something I take very serious.
Players and coaches alike, you sign up for 82 games. You get paid for 82.
I want to be known as Dominican-that's what I am, 100 percent ... I have a duty and responsibility to continue the legacy of Dominicans in baseball.
As a quarterback, you have to go out and take care of the ball. That is your No. 1 priority.
I do what I have to on the pitch.
But that in and of itself this past year was not a factor in what I did for the national team every time I stepped out there, or in training, or when I stepped out there in the WUSA.
For an athlete, the country is everything.
I feel this heavy weight to be a good ambassador for the sport.
The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
As athletes, we want to represent our country to the best of our ability.
I'm not really someone who looks forward to the gym. But I realise it's something that I have to do to perform well on the pitch.
