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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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"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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"The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality."
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"I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament."
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"I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best."
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"Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros."
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"All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving."
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"She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself."
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"When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement."
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"Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach."
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"I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players' bodies can develop better than their skills."
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"To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice."
Sacrifice
"You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement."
Life
"I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it."
Goal
"The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant."
Nation
"I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever."
People
"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."
Coach
"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 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
"And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates."
Environment
"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
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