134 Quotes by Steve Nicol

We're away the whole of July and home the whole of August. That's not what anybody wants. You're hoping for a balanced season. The way it is structured doesn't help us any.

I don't expect anything else. The way they play, they are flinging bodies forward. When you do that, you leave holes behind you, and we hope to exploit that. Everyone wants to go on the road and win, but we wouldn't be too disappointed with a draw, either.

If we take the lead, they have to come out and it opens the game up.

He has a track record as a full international and comes from one of the top college programs in the country.

He was in and out at Los Angeles which is going to affect your confidence with the team. He's realizing what he's capable of.

I think it's been a steady focus. So far this year we've done it, and we need to continue to do it. It's good to hear the guys think that way; that's where they want to go.

I think the fact that we were forcing the game and we were away from home in Kansas City, who is undefeated, kind of tells you that the backbone of team. We did make changes, we were forced into a couple of changes, but it never knocked us off our straight, we kept pushing forward. But we just never got that break in the penalty box when we needed it. It's just not running for us in the penalty box at the moment.

It is great that we are able to play Pepe, even though we lose Danny. They play the game slightly differently. Pepe gives us good possession and he will calm things down.

I think we deserve it. We have had some good results at home and away from home. Tonight we should have won, even though we were two down but we felt we could get something. We said at halftime that 30 of the 45 minutes we played some decent stuff and felt we were in charge. There was just a period of eight to 10 minutes where we lost it and they got both their goals. It took a couple minutes after giving up the second one before we got back in it.