Brian McBride

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

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

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

I love Major League Soccer, covered the first game in 1996 in a funky stadium in San Jose, and I applaud just about every move that its commissioners, Garber and Doug Logan, have made.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.