Brian McBride Quotes (29 Quotes)


    My favorite sports are soccer, hockey and volleyball.

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

    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 around and you see the pace and the talent that says something.

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

    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,




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

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

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


    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.

    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.

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

    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.


    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.


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

    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 here, that's for sure. The guys all love playing here. The field's always in great condition, the fans are great, and the whole situation is just awesome for us. The entire city is a great host too.

    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 have an abundance of talent know that. Hopefully, I can help lead them in the right direction with where to be and what to do and how it's going to feel. That's the case with Eddie and when I was playing with Jeff Cunningham in Columbus. These guys have unbelievable amounts of talent, and it's important to make sure they know that.

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


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

    I picked up golf - I'm not the best at it, but I enjoy it.

    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 pass and it didn't come off.

    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 off again, and the ball set up for the third time and I struck it pretty well.

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

    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.


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