I enjoy analyzing the game and solve problems and get that across to my teammates.

To sit on the other bench was strange. This is somewhat like home in the sense that I have been here eight years. It seems so normal.

It’s nice to beat Mexico, but it wasn’t the be-all, end-all. It was about qualifying, and we did it in a good way.

I picked up golf – I’m not the best at it, but I enjoy it.

It’s not any one person. It’s not any one coach. It’s the team.

If that’s not the case, I have my degree in secondary education so who knows what is going to be ahead for me, but I hope it is in soccer somehow.

Too many times as a team, we get caught out in one on one positions, and you are going to hurt sometimes doing that and we have this year.

You prepare yourself by concentrating on what you have to do out on the field.

Basically it was good ball movement. I just had to open up my foot — it went in.

My goals are for the U.S. team to get to the second round of the World Cup and to win a championship here in the U.S. with my club team the Columbus Crew.

Writer’s write because they’re writers.

When I received the ball, I just tried to shield it and turn, … I faked the shot, and the second time I was going to hit it, but I faked again and they fell...

What we have is a crisis here. We need to hire more paramedics and establish more medic units. Instead of cutting taxes, the city needs to be better funding EMS [emergency medical services].

It’s probably something we’ve never had before (on the left side). Bobby made quite a few strong runs. His right-footed shot was one of his best.

It doesn’t do any good to sulk, … My goal is to be a part of this team at the World Cup, and my job is to make sure that the guys coming through who...

It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.

Put your head down and work as hard as you can because there is always someone better out there.

We were guilty of going forward too quickly sometimes. For them, it opened up the game. Maybe we need to hold it a little more. A different day, it could’ve gone a different way. It...

I knew I just had to beat the guy to the spot, … put a nice ball in and I just had to open up my foot.

You only accomplish things by sticking together as players on the field. It’s a team sport. Yes there are individuals in it but as far as I am concerned targets should be team targets.

And, of course, I like to spend time with my wife and my two-year-old daughter.

I would love for all U.S.-Mexico games to be here. I would love it. By the time the next qualifying rolls around, I’ll be watching from the stands, but I’d love to be watching U.S.-Mexico...

These kinds of games are always tense.

I didn’t even know that. People haven’t even talked about it. It shows the depth (of this team).

I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.

I’ve been playing since I was eight years old.

I think probably we were guilty of trying to go forward too quick sometimes instead of settling it down and trying to open them up that way. Too many times we probably tried that penetrating...

Two wins from now, we’ll be OK. But until then, we’ll just think about the next game (Aug. 17 at home to Trinidad and Tobago).

When one striker is scoring a lot and the others maybe not so much, there can be a tendency for the other guy to be at the forefront of people’s attention,

I think competition is very important; it breeds many good things in a person.

Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions.

I don’t know the right way to answer that. I can say that this clearly has an enormous level of talent and that I’ve enjoyed it every time I stepped on the field. Just look...

I want to be involved in soccer some way.

Competition helps people figure it out.

My favorite sports are soccer, hockey and volleyball.

We’ve come a long way in many ways, especially with the depth and talent of our players,

Keep enjoying it, and if you do that, then you are going to get better.