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Landon Donovan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
8475 total appearances

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Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Diego Luna lives the dream, Crystal Palace finally lifts a trophy and its MLS Rivalry Week

Listen, as long as I get an autographed copy.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Diego Luna lives the dream, Crystal Palace finally lifts a trophy and its MLS Rivalry Week

You know what I recently said? And you're going through this arduous process of writing a book. And I feel like writing a book should not invoke these emotions. No, it's supposed to be fun.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Diego Luna lives the dream, Crystal Palace finally lifts a trophy and its MLS Rivalry Week

You know what I recently said? And you're going through this arduous process of writing a book. And I feel like writing a book should not invoke these emotions. No, it's supposed to be fun.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Diego Luna lives the dream, Crystal Palace finally lifts a trophy and its MLS Rivalry Week

You know what I recently said? And you're going through this arduous process of writing a book. And I feel like writing a book should not invoke these emotions. No, it's supposed to be fun.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Diego Luna lives the dream, Crystal Palace finally lifts a trophy and its MLS Rivalry Week

I remember someone asked me, would I write another book? And I literally said... No. But if I did, I would write it about like something I'm passionate about and then I would have it as mine. And then if a publishing house wanted to take it after that, sure. But I'm taking no direction. I'm not like to the highest bidder. I'm writing it because it's a passion project.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Diego Luna lives the dream, Crystal Palace finally lifts a trophy and its MLS Rivalry Week

I remember someone asked me, would I write another book? And I literally said... No. But if I did, I would write it about like something I'm passionate about and then I would have it as mine. And then if a publishing house wanted to take it after that, sure. But I'm taking no direction. I'm not like to the highest bidder. I'm writing it because it's a passion project.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Diego Luna lives the dream, Crystal Palace finally lifts a trophy and its MLS Rivalry Week

I remember someone asked me, would I write another book? And I literally said... No. But if I did, I would write it about like something I'm passionate about and then I would have it as mine. And then if a publishing house wanted to take it after that, sure. But I'm taking no direction. I'm not like to the highest bidder. I'm writing it because it's a passion project.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Diego Luna lives the dream, Crystal Palace finally lifts a trophy and its MLS Rivalry Week

And then like if no one picks it up, who cares? But yeah, it's I'm looking forward to yours because you have so many amazing stories and experiences. So that's cool.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Diego Luna lives the dream, Crystal Palace finally lifts a trophy and its MLS Rivalry Week

And then like if no one picks it up, who cares? But yeah, it's I'm looking forward to yours because you have so many amazing stories and experiences. So that's cool.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Diego Luna lives the dream, Crystal Palace finally lifts a trophy and its MLS Rivalry Week

And then like if no one picks it up, who cares? But yeah, it's I'm looking forward to yours because you have so many amazing stories and experiences. So that's cool.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Diego Luna lives the dream, Crystal Palace finally lifts a trophy and its MLS Rivalry Week

But here's the thing, JR, hang on. Here's the thing. These writers who are amazing, right? You think of the top athlete, top anyone in their field, they're amazing. This is what they do and they love it and they're passionate about it. What it is is they're sucking the soul out of

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Diego Luna lives the dream, Crystal Palace finally lifts a trophy and its MLS Rivalry Week

But here's the thing, JR, hang on. Here's the thing. These writers who are amazing, right? You think of the top athlete, top anyone in their field, they're amazing. This is what they do and they love it and they're passionate about it. What it is is they're sucking the soul out of

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Diego Luna lives the dream, Crystal Palace finally lifts a trophy and its MLS Rivalry Week

But here's the thing, JR, hang on. Here's the thing. These writers who are amazing, right? You think of the top athlete, top anyone in their field, they're amazing. This is what they do and they love it and they're passionate about it. What it is is they're sucking the soul out of

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Diego Luna lives the dream, Crystal Palace finally lifts a trophy and its MLS Rivalry Week

Us, because if you think about what writing a book entails, like the person walking down the street who's never written a book has basically not sat down and just, unless they've gone to massive amounts of therapy, which is also very healthy. No one is digging that deep. They're not going back. They're just not going back. They have no reason to go back. But when you write a book, it's like, no.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Diego Luna lives the dream, Crystal Palace finally lifts a trophy and its MLS Rivalry Week

Us, because if you think about what writing a book entails, like the person walking down the street who's never written a book has basically not sat down and just, unless they've gone to massive amounts of therapy, which is also very healthy. No one is digging that deep. They're not going back. They're just not going back. They have no reason to go back. But when you write a book, it's like, no.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Diego Luna lives the dream, Crystal Palace finally lifts a trophy and its MLS Rivalry Week

Us, because if you think about what writing a book entails, like the person walking down the street who's never written a book has basically not sat down and just, unless they've gone to massive amounts of therapy, which is also very healthy. No one is digging that deep. They're not going back. They're just not going back. They have no reason to go back. But when you write a book, it's like, no.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Diego Luna lives the dream, Crystal Palace finally lifts a trophy and its MLS Rivalry Week

Yeah. Tell me more about that. And then in the editing process, it's just like, hey, remember the thing we struggled with in week one talking about? Let's go back to that because I need more information. Anyway, can't wait for the book.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Diego Luna lives the dream, Crystal Palace finally lifts a trophy and its MLS Rivalry Week

Yeah. Tell me more about that. And then in the editing process, it's just like, hey, remember the thing we struggled with in week one talking about? Let's go back to that because I need more information. Anyway, can't wait for the book.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Diego Luna lives the dream, Crystal Palace finally lifts a trophy and its MLS Rivalry Week

Yeah. Tell me more about that. And then in the editing process, it's just like, hey, remember the thing we struggled with in week one talking about? Let's go back to that because I need more information. Anyway, can't wait for the book.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Diego Luna lives the dream, Crystal Palace finally lifts a trophy and its MLS Rivalry Week

I believe that. Yeah, this. I love that question. And it's a very sweet and endearing question. Yeah. God bless Marta, by the way. She retired. She's still good enough for them to be like, hold on, come back, which is great. Yeah, the part that didn't go in my book was my USL Memphis playing days. It doesn't end well. It doesn't end well. So I hate, hate playing soccer. I love everything about it.