Those were the words of Mike Petke two months ago, as he described his bursts of anger, bursts of passion, bursts of profanity, bursts of ugliness, bursts that stir somewhere inside him, from a place not even Petke himself understands. And then, they spill out, like raging water over and through a damaged and disintegrating dam.
On one occasion, after a disappointing Real Salt Lake loss on a bad call by an official last season, the coach fired off a string of aggression in an interview: “ … Fine me!” he said. “I don’t care anymore. So drain my bank account.