When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.

When people say 'American soccer,' they think of the U.S. national team. But American soccer also includes Major League Soccer, and until we have a league that produces players at the rate other leagues around the world do, I don't believe we'll ever get to where we want to be.

The national team comes before everything.

It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.

When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronaldinho because I was younger.

I expected more from them. At least for the next three or four years, they'll shut up. They can't say anything.