Have A Desire To Improve

He was the runt of the litter. Athletically, he wasn't, let's say, fully developed. Sometimes when you look a youth team, people say the best guys are the ones who are the better athletes.

Mike wasn't that. But he loved the game. He had a passion for it. He was a soccer rat. And he always had the desire to improve.

-David Richardson, coach of the Sockers FC Chicago youth club, on Michael Bradley