Don Garber Quotations

We hope this program will further encourage the millions of soccer fans in this country to contribute to helping the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

We're a changing country. The people against us are older and not engaged in the game. Our focus remains expanding the dominance of soccer as the No. 1 sport among Hispanics living in the U.S.

MLS reiterates its belief that the use of performance-enhancing substances compromises the integrity of professional sports,

It is our intention to bring Major League Soccer back to the Bay Area with a new expansion team as early as 2007. MLS is committed to working with local business leaders and city officials to continue these efforts. With the support of the city of San Jose, a local ownership group and a soccer-specific stadium, professional soccer can be very successful in northern California.

Freddy is someone who needs to be carefully developed physically and competitively, ... He's playing with grown men, guys who are not going to care that Freddy's perceived as the great hope for the sport in this country. They're going to do everything they can to make sure he has a rough time.

A 'one-size-fits-all' policy could lead to a variety of unintended consequences.

We never intended for the team's name to offend any member of the Houston community. We listened hard to the fan reaction and believe that the Houston Dynamo name is an exciting, appropriate and locally relevant new team brand.

We have always believed that combination of the diversity and the passion of the city's sports fans and the size of the market would lead to success for an MLS team. We've also had great success with the international markets, maybe as much as we've had in any city.

The timing and the offer didn't work, so we turned it down.

We believe we are a team that can succeed in East Los Angeles and New York City, but we also can succeed in places like Columbus and Salt Lake,