Sampson Quotes

You either change personnel or you work on it in training. We're working on the personnel issues. Certainly I think Cornell Glen has been a very dangerous player the last two weeks. You can't win games if you don't score goals. - Steve Sampson

You don't make wholesale changes with your midfield that worked for you and won a championship overnight. But Landon is the type of player that is versatile. If it's not working for us in the midfield with Paulo and Pete I can put (Donovan) there. We might start with him there next week. - Steve Sampson

You could just tell for some reason he got his hop back, got his step back. - Kelvin Sampson

You can't afford to give up so many of those kinds of opportunities. You have to eliminate the unforced errors and the silly fouls. You have to be very, very careful against a team like San Jose as far as giving away too many opportunities where they can set up free kicks. They're used to this field. They know how to use it. - Steve Sampson

Without the information in front of us and the city here to answer questions that we have ... it is very difficult to keep what's best for the community in play without some hard copies of their proposal. ... I would like to say that I think this whole board wants what's best for the community. We're not opposed to the city taking the fire department if we could understand what their intentions are. - John Sampson

With Justin up top and me outside, we can score quick. It worked out real well. - Todd Sampson

Whoever got Mike Neal was getting an impact guard, and we obviously knew that coming in. A lot of times shooters are one-trick ponies. Michael is an outstanding shooter who happens to be a really good basketball player. - Kelvin Sampson

Who knows what will happen in February? We dug ourselves into a hole early. But I like how we're playing heading into this stretch of the season. - Kelvin Sampson

While we're here in training the players have done a great job on concentrating and focusing. It's when we get away from this environment that it's tough to relax or really enjoy themselves. Sometimes we almost feel guilty for wanting to laugh, and that's not the way that Doug would have wanted it. - Steve Sampson