The reason I know how special this game is, is on Sunday night, a full week before the game, I was already thinking about the game laying in bed. And I never do that. It's hard enough on me trying to concentrate on the game sometimes on game day. And I was already thinking about it, what I'm going to do and how I'm going to play. How it's going to feel when we win. That says it all. |
The second-highest honor is playing for your country, and the highest honor is wearing the armband for your country, ... It shows that the players have confidence in me, and that feels good. |
The second-highest honor is playing for your country, and the highest honor is wearing the armband for your country. It shows that the players have confidence in me, and that feels good. |
The teams we're playing against are in the middle of the season. We're behind the 8-ball to start with. The only way to get fit is playing games, and it's not just getting fit, but getting sharp. We need to find a way to make [the scheduling] better. I don't know how you fix that but it is disappointing. Our league expects more and I think we expect more. |
They are jealous of us, the Mexican players, because we've got a life and they have nothing, ... Because of that they despise us. ... Who is going to win this game? The best team. And we know good and well who is the best team between the U.S. and Mexico. We know it well. |
They do a lot of talking. They haven't beat us in a long time here. I'm kind of sick of it, ... There's no better scenario than to beat them easily. |
They do a lot of talking. They haven't beat us in a long time here. I'm kind of sick of it. There's no better scenario than to beat them easily. |
They're still pretty good. Zidane's phenomenal. |
This is obviously an exciting day for everyone. Likewise, it's a sad day for a few. |
Those four games were just awful, ... I remember going to practice every day, thinking, 'What is it?' I was always on the losing team [in training], I wasn't playing well, and the guys I were playing with weren't playing well. It bummed me out. It really did. We weren't clicking and when things go bad everybody tries to be a hero and step up and score and do everything instead of just doing their job. |
To imagine being in Germany having a home crowd is kind of silly, but we'll take it. |
We (had) been in a rut for the past 12-13 games. Now we don't have any excuses. Everyone's here. Everyone is available, ... We have all the training time. We have only two more road games. We've got to show that we belong. |
We and Chicago have consistently been the two best teams all year, and this is what you want in a final -- the two best teams. |
We are deeper from one through 23 and a better team. |
We are deeper from one through 23 and a better team. The thing we don't have that we had four years ago was not as many clear leaders on the team. |