They had to play three months on Astroturf with its dizzying array of football lines.

"You can't play 12 months a year for 10 years, not taking time off," he said.

This team essentially played two months of elimination games, both to get into the playoffs, and then to win it all.

We play six months of the year.

You play six months, almost every day for six months.

Now I play maybe once every three months in celebrity tournaments.

If you think about it, he's only played six months in the last 30 months.

People were tired after having played 10 months of soccer and two games a week for the last couple of weeks.

We're looking at probably playing three months over there.

"You certainly hope to find some kind of consistency, because it's tough to play six months like this."