"The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be."
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- Mexico-Argentina broadcast smashes records
- USA-Ghana draws World Series-like numbers
- The high cost of sacking Capello
- U.S. soccer may take home public, despite Cup loss
- Project 2010 - Were we close?
- College Soccer Helps Develop US team
- Barrieu is key component to US success
- Herbert is most under-paid manager at World Cup
- American fans embrace 'the beautiful game'
- An opportunity lost?
- Despite WCup loss, US soccer team scores a goal: m...
- Baseball stops for the World Cup
- Kiwis Grind Out Results
- Mexico camp in disarray?
- What's Next For Bradley?
- More Proof That Soccer Is Here To Stay
- U.S. Soccer Win Is Halfway Mark in Bigger Plan
- The Day Soccer Became Cool
- USA 1 - ALGERIA 0
- LANDON DONOVAN - An American Household Name
- No bonuses for French players
- Africa Hosts World Cup, But Imports Coaches
- Capello - "It's Not A Revolution"
- U.S. team's effort could produce another 'miracle'
- The French Meltdown
- Team Turmoil & Rebellion Spells Disaster
- "Failing to Prepare is Preparing to Fail"
- Father's Day gift for Bob Bradley
- US vs Slovenia - recap
- Bradley completes US amazing comeback
- Rating the Top Seeds
- The First Game in Group Stage is Most Important
- Scouting Report - Slovenia
- Why Michael Bradley is indispensable
- Complacency could be worry vs Slovenia
- Lochhead leads American university products in Wor...
- The Ajax Way
- Bradley's legacy will be determined during the nex...
- What Bradley has learned from the top managers
- Dunga deals with pressures of being Brazil's coach
- Vuvuzela - What's the big deal, anyway?
- Howard calls it like it is
- US Proud of Defensive Effort
- DeMerit draws attention from English clubs
- World Cup goes public to the casual US sports fan
- Howard cleared to play
- Some names and nicknames to watch for in World Cup
- History Gives Us Some Hints On World Cup
- How US earned valuable points
- Howard leads US to 1-1 draw with England
- England v USA - the key battles
- Job Description of a coach
- Will World Cup boost soccer TV ratings in US?
- US vs. England - preview
- Sorber is right man for the job
- Bradley tells it like it is
- At one position, at least, Americans have the edge
- From sausage and chips in 1966 to sushi in 2010
- Yes, Soccer Is America's Game
- English Downfall Hinges on the Bradley Boys
- USA could have used Subotic
- England Locks In Capello Through 2012
- Interview with Juergen Klinsmann
- What Comes Around Goes Around For Rossi
- USA's World Cup Shirt Numbers
- Mourinho arrives at Real Madrid
- MLS plan on player development
- Why College Soccer Still Produces Pro Talent
- 'The Bradley Bunch'
- College Players Giving Red Bulls a Boost
- Basketball great influenced Bob Bradley
- In The End It's About Attendance
- Why Klinsmann Didn't End Up As US Coach
- Reyna outlines plans for U.S. youth soccer
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"NOTHING GREAT WAS EVER ACHIEVED WITHOUT ENTHUSIASM"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
MJ's book list - what he's read most recently
- Carter - Yes Ma'am, No Sir: the 12 Essential Steps for Success in Life
- Coffey, Wayne - The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
- Ehrmann, Joe - InSideOut Coaching: How Sports Can Transform Lives
- Frankl, Viktor - Man's Search For Meaning
- Gordon, Jon - The Energy Bus
- Gordon, Jon - The Seed
- Gordon, Jon - Training Camp
- Kyle, Chris - American Sniper
- Michels, Rinus - TEAM BUILDING: The road to success
- Woods, David - UNDERDAWGS: How Brad Stevens and Butler University built the Bulldogs for March Madness
Mike Jacobs links
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Soccer Media Outlets
Professional Leagues, Teams links
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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
--Rudyard Kipling
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
--Rudyard Kipling
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