I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run. There's an offense and a defense.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You have to go out and find a way to compete every day. I know what I can do and what I can offer the team.
During such a competition players are there for a long time as well as all the people around them. They need to train, to eat, to go out. There ought to be something in it for everyone. On that particular point, my experience has been a bonus.
In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.
I think you sign up to win games, and compete, and go out there and lead a team no matter how you can do that.
I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.
I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
The bottom line, in the professional level, no matter where you go, there's going to be competition. That's what it is. At the end of the day, you're trying to put team first and make each other better.
You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.
You just go out there and try to compete and try to make a play for your teammates.
I remember when I went to try out for the Olympic team in 1972, Coach Iba told me he didn't care how many points I could score because if I couldn't guard anybody, I wasn't going to make the team. I knew to make the team I had to become a better defender. If you can play offense, you can defend. It just comes down to competitive will.