1.   Arena is a sarcastic, sometimes caustic New Yorker who has enjoyed success and bruised egos at the highest levels of American soccer.

2.   Egos become bruised.

3.   Egos have been bruised, and enormous amounts of money and pride have been sacrificed.

4.   He dented sheet metal, wrecked cars and bruised egos almost every time out.

5.   He suffered a concussion, broken finger, bruised sternum and bruised ego last weekend when he fell from a pony in a charity race at Santa Fe Downs.

6.   If egos were bruised, it was not evident.

7.   In her first eight months on the job, she has bruised egos, dismissed fools, and taken considerable political risks to keep the fragile peace process alive.

8.   Johnson, over the course of his four-year career with the Jets, bruised the egos of many cornerbacks.

9.   Most importantly, Reichert consistently pushes environmentalists to be practical, even if that means bruising egos or accepting compromises that purists detest.

10.   More than a few bruised egos.