226 Quotes by Bruce Arena

You always need to be patient, realizing the amount of time off these players have had. The expectations can't be too great. We realize it's going to take some time to settle in.

We eagerly look forward to seeing our domestic players. We want to do the best job we can of making the roster as competitive as possible over the next six months so we can position our team to be successful in the World Cup. We view this camp and the games in January and February as critical towards our preparation for Germany.

I'm not sure the snow was an advantage for anybody. We have been training in California, our domestic players, for seven weeks.

In my opinion it's going to be the best World Cup in history for a lot of reasons. It's in Europe, which tends to bring in all the best teams.

We got beat and we deserved to get beat. This was the USA playing tonight ? it doesn't matter who we were missing.

We got beat and we deserved to get beat.

In this kind of game, you have to jump on any opportunity you get. That made the difference.

We have some extra numbers in positions where we can afford the opportunity to look at some of the European players in this game and rest some of the domestic players. An example of that would be Eddie Pope and Jim Conrad. Based on play over the past month and a half, they would be included in this roster if we were simply basing it on performances. But we have guys we need to look at now.

If you told me I had to hand in a roster tomorrow, I could do it. However, we know from experience -- at least from the last time -- a lot of things happen.