We have a great defending team. I've said it before, your defense is part of your goalkeeper stats. I think the guys have done fantastic in front. Tonight, all five guys came up, played great, and limited their opportunities.

214

It's pretty traditional in that it continues the long tradition (of foreign soccer teams) using numbers for their names, so I think it's great. But it's also unique (to MLS). You want to bring something special to this team and I think it does that.

180

[The Earthquakes have lost just one of their last six road games - winning three of them.] We try to win every game we play. We don't go on the road and try and get draws, but we go for the win, ... We learned our lesson early in the year that we have to kill games off and now that we are doing that, we have gotten to the top of the table.

169

Hopefully, we'll play as well here as we did in San Jose and the fans will get behind us.

150

You could feel the electricity tonight from the moment you walked out of the locker room, it was an important game for us. The last thing we wanted to do was let L.A. back into the chase with us. We knew that getting three points from them would make it difficult for them to catch us, so we accomplished what we wanted to.

137

A little bit of rest, finally, for my old weary bones. We knew Zach was coming in. He's had a good camp with the national team, so it's going to be tough competition in the goal.

101

The guys played well tonight in the back. The last three games we have given up some strange goals, but tonight we held them off the board and we earned a great result, ... If we keep playing like we did tonight, the shutouts will keep coming.

94

It (the name) distinguishes us from the rest of the teams.

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