Soccer Improvement Quotes

Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.

If I couldn't get to the national team, I wanted to get as much as I could out of soccer, and I think moving abroad was my opportunity to do that. I think that, in turn, playing with that freedom and that spirit allowed me to play a lot better. I escalated my game quickly just by being happy.

When you're transitioning, and you're trying to develop a better brand of soccer, at some point, you have to step backward before you step forward.

Not everyone is Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo. Even Cristiano Ronaldo's first years at Manchester United were quite difficult.

I want to help the MLS grow and play well.

I'm always learning, especially with the different formations. It will help me in the long run to maybe become a forward player - on the wing or something.

I'm not silly enough to think I'm going to change the whole culture ... but I do have a belief that soccer can go to a different level.

It's funny: one of the strongest parts of my game today is heading, and that only really developed when I started playing at the professional level. In the youth teams, all we did was passing.

From the start, the promise of Jurgen Klinsmann as manager of the U.S. men's national team was revolution: gritty, plodding American soccer would give way to attacking flair; the parade of journeymen would end; an era of skilled stylists would begin.