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"And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you."
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"Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct "British" accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it."
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"Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries."
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"At the end of it, I'll maybe do a coaching badge but I'm not going to get forced into things."
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"A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players."
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"We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants, weight trainers, whoever, we're the ones that are going to have turn it around. And I think just took that responsibility on ourselves."
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"The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become."
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"I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you'll have to wait until January to see them."
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"It's hard, or you wouldn't like it. A lot of coaches really don't like what they're doing."
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"The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches."
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"I think that teaching coaches are the norm now."
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"I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it."
Goal

"I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever."
People

"Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together."
Opportunity

"I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun."
Friendship

"I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me."
Time

"When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team."
College

"I love soccer; I want to be on the field."
Love

"To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice."
Sacrifice

"My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played."
Travel

"We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier."
Kids
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