If you put good people around you, I guess you’re smart. You learn from them and that makes you a better coach.

Chemistry is a contribution that teammates make to each other, but it’s also something a coach can create or facilitate.

Coaching soccer, like disciplines including journalism, you’ll always learn if you’re open to it, you’ll learn from your players. If that’s being smart, fair enough.

I put myself around good people, including my assistant coaches. A lot of head coaches are intimidated by their assistant coaches, they’d rather get people that are far less talented than them because it’s not threatening.

Youth soccer is big business. If I don’t win, it doesn’t matter if I’m developing players, my business is going to hell.

I don’t know how smart I am, but I was a student of the game and I still watch games and still pick up things. If you watch individual players you will see genius.

You can’t have assistant coaches who aren’t loyal – but you can learn a lot from your assistant coaches.

When you set a goal, write it down and then it’s like making a promise to yourself.

I don’t blame the players, I don’t blame the parents, I blame programs and I blame the coaches.

The smartest thing is knowing that I don’t know it all and that there’s more to learn.