Nick Rimando Quotes (11 Quotes)

The Fire's 10 goals against United are by far the most of any team, and more than one-quarter of the entire season total conceded by D.C. They've broken us down this whole year, ... So I guess we're going to try not to have a high-scoring game for our part, but we're going to try to find the goal as much as we can. They're a very attacking team, and they have some good forwards.

Brian can cover so much of the field, ... He's very calm out there. He plays hard, but he doesn't have that anger to him. That's who he is. He's a quiet person off the field, but when it comes game time, he wants to win more than anybody else.

It's a two-way street. They had to come play us, so we have to come down here and play them in their stadium. I think we're fine, we'll get some sleep and be ready for the game tomorrow.

It's a huge cup, there are lots of historical teams here, and it puts up against them, to see how far we can go. D.C. United isn't new to these competitions, though. We've won a couple. It'd be good to be part of that again this year.

It's big for our confidence, it's big for our heads, ... and hopefully it will get something started for us again.

He's still young. Sometimes you see him do so well in games and turn games around and the next time you see him not do as well. You know what the kid has and what he can bring, and I think sometimes the coaches might get frustrated with that. I think he gets frustrated himself.

I can't believe Bobby Rhine didn't see him Jamil Walker on the sideline and when the ref blew the whistle I just tried to hit a good enough ball to Jamil. I thought he was going to go in but he gave a great touch and played the ball to Santino in the middle.

The result ended United's winning streak at four and its unbeaten run at six, and provided the Galaxy with its first victory outside Southern California in nearly 14 months. (Los Angeles's two previous road wins this year were against Chivas, a lowly Los Angeles-based expansion team.) We were flying high for a while, ... and this grounds us a little bit.

Another week to two weeks, hopefully less than that. I want to make sure I'm 100 percent healthy before I go out there again.

We went into that game trying to win it, ... It was an ugly game, but a tie on the road is actually like a win for us. In the 80th minute, you're just thinking to yourself, 'A tie's not too bad.' Then you play a little conservative and get back a little more.

You can't let the ball bounce like that. Something like that can cost us this tournament,