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"Once a team gets confidence, medium-sized things become little things and little things disappear. When you're not playing well, when you're not getting results, the confidence goes and medium-sized things become huge and little things become large. So you've got to deal with that, but that's reality as well."

-- Former Seattle Sounders head coach Sigi Schmid on the Sounders' turnaround since he was fired. They are 3-0-1 since he left and they acquired Nicolas Lodeiro, whom Schmid helped sign on the recommendation of Boca Juniors coach Guillermo Barros Schelotto, whom he coached at Columbus. (ESPN FC)

"We have a lot of relationships with the ownership group. We're probably zero or one degree of separation between myself and everyone in the ownership group."

-- Steven Sugarman, chief executive of Banc of California, which signed a naming-rights deal for LAFC's new stadium. His brother is the son-in-law of LAFC's executive chairman, Hollywood producer Peter Guber. (Los Angeles Times)