92 Quotes by Steve Sampson

He's a great goal scorer. I think he has deceptive speed. Technically I think he's gifted. He's got the complete package. He just lacks the experience at this level. We don't want to rush the situation.

He wasn't showing any signs of illness. The team doctor was with him and suddenly noted that he was sleeping in a very strange position. When he took a closer look he realized that he was not breathing and immediately began resuscitation.

He can tend to make a defense fall asleep, so when he does make his run for it, it tends to be very productive.

He is very depressed by the situation because he did everything possible.

Kevin has literally played every single minute up until today's game. I didn't want to go into the playoffs without Steve Cronin getting some playing time.

I think that if we could've finished a couple of early opportunities in the game, that would have made a difference for us, ... Chris Albright's opportunity, which Scott Garlick saved, was a big psychological boost for them. Then we take the own goal and the two things combined caused some problems.

I thought that Tyrone Marshall leaving the game was a big loss for us because I think he was holding the middle of the defense quite well for us. When he left we lost the middle of the defense.

I thought that the first 20-25 minutes of the game we played quite well. We created a couple opportunities. If we put one of those away it's a different game. I think the emotion of the match, and all the pre-game ceremony before we stepped on the pitch, hopefully wasn't that much of a distraction but in the end I think we'll evaluate that it was.

I think we're further along this time of year than we were last year at the same time. We also know that New England and Chicago, our first two matches, are going to be tough.