If you put good people around you, I guess you're smart. You learn from them and that makes you a better coach.

The smartest thing is knowing that I don't know it all and that there's more to learn.

To some, challenges are exhausting. To others, they are opportunities in waiting.

I put myself around good people, including my assistant coaches. A lot of head coaches are intimidated by their assistant coaches, they'd rather get people that are far less talented than them because it's not threatening.

Youth soccer is big business. If I don't win, it doesn't matter if I'm developing players, my business is going to hell.

Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.

Don't whine. Find the positive in difficult situations.