Dave Checketts Quotations

When you think about teams, one of the most critical things is stability. I want to just bring stability to this situation. The new owner's in place, a long-term owner, committed owner.

The fact that we have 44 to 50 alumni that still live here and still love St. Louis ... I want those guys involved with us, working for us.

It enhances the whole game experience to have a soccer-specific stadium. That's what we'll do.

The people here are very passionate about sport if it's presented in the right way. They want to be major league and they want to win. Two very simple things.

We've got to get ready for that draft. It's real important. I want to understand what's done. If we have one of the first three picks, we could come away with a very good player.

If ambition is the desire to be the best at what you do, then I'm guilty.

I want to bring stability to the team. We're going to be making long-term decisions to ensure front-office stability.

When we traded him, I would say that was probably a lose-lose. It didn't work out well for anyone.

These things don't work unless there's some public-private partnership there. The notion that any of this money is just lining our pockets is just erroneous. They're (the county and city) taking over the land, just the way they do with any other private enterprise. . . . This just happens to be more public because it's private sports.

We've really battled through this. Now we have a change to build Soccer City USA.