Carlos Ruiz Quotations

MLS is now the goal for players coming out of Central America. What we as players look for now is to leave the Central American leagues because, no disrespect to anyone, the playing level is low and the pay is worse.

No estamos en un buen nivel y cada vez estamos peores. El resultado en contra nos pone pensar en el futuro.

I work to score goals -- you know, I haven't scored a goal yet this season. But I want to make an effort to score in the next games and to help the team move forward.

I booked a flight last-minute to El Paso ... and the weather was gorgeous. It didn't seem like there was much going to happen. It didn't look like storm weather.

Carlos has a reputation for diving, and we've talked to him about it, but it's something that he's doing far less than he did in his first year in the league. Sometimes it's difficult to determine: Is it a dive or is he getting hit?

For what?' they asked us, ... 'If we go there, we'll be deported,' they said. 'If we go, we'll face revenge from the gangs in the neighborhood.' A lot of people are afraid to come forward.

I think the fans are sad, because they come to see FC Dallas, and we can win at home,

I was afraid to come to the States at first. But I quickly found out that the league's level is excellent, extremely competitive and, above all, very even.

We had less than a week to get a team together. We don't even have a head coach yet.

It's a bad game, but this national team has only been together for one week for this game. We don't like the final score but we come here to play soccer and to demonstrate to the Guatemalan fans that our players can play outside of Guatemala.

It's OK if I score, but it's much better if my team wins.

It's the other Cup -- Lamar Hunt -- so it's not a big deal,

It's hard to start on the bench but these things happen. But the MLS season continues. I really want to play every game, not just against the Galaxy.

It's hard you know, ... It's a lot of games - this team played last Wednesday in D.C. - it was a hard game over there ... well for the fans, I feel very, very sad. Everybody has come here to watch FC Dallas and Dallas can't win at home the last three games.

It's complicated, when it's raining like this, there's a lot of traffic and you got your speeders, weird drivers too.

I'm glad he's here because of all the chaos that went on with the other storm,

I like the food. Raviolis. Cereal. Salad. Um, I don't like salad. It's green.