“It was a shared experience, 11 or 12 of our players were there for about two hours. That’s a shared experience that brought them closer together" -- Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh, on several members of the team’s traveling party being forced to crawl through a ceiling panel to escape a stuck hotel elevator before Saturday's preseason matchup with the Cowboys (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 8/24).
"It's time for a change, it's time for us to take another step and really improve as a team and leading up to this World Cup we need to find some good results and build some momentum leading up to that moment" -- USMNT F Christian Pulisic, on the hiring of Mauricio Pochettino as new USMNT coach (CBS, 8/24).