Top 133 Quotes & Sayings by Brendan Rodgers

The key for scouting is trying to predict when the player is peaking.

When you're so young, it's important to understand exactly what your role is. Not just look good - you have to be efficient and effective.

I'm very proud of my work at Watford in what has been a short period.

Simon Mignolet has been first class.

I like teams to control and dominate the ball so the players are hungry for the ball.

I've been fortunate enough to work with lots of really good players, so it would be disrespectful to single out the best.

I think sometimes you can want to win too much, and the focus comes away from what allows you to win.

Sometimes keepers are looked at differently to outfield players.

I've got huge respect for Arsenal as a club.

Believe it or not, the sky is blue here in Glasgow. I absolutely love it here.

Would I work in Scotland again? Of course I would. I loved every single second of being there.

Liverpool give young players a good opportunity.

The team is the most important thing.

My decision was that after nearly three years at Celtic - with everything we'd achieved and the success we'd had on the pitch, the improvements off the pitch - then it was time to move on to my next challenge.

You make mistakes in your life, especially when you're young.

How you succeed is how you deal with failure. Whatever way you dress it up, something hasn't worked.

Racism - whether it's in football or society, there's absolutely no place for it.

My teams have always been dominant about having the ball but having the ball to create opportunities. That's always been the clear way of my work.

I had a wonderful time at Liverpool. My three and a half years there was a great experience.

If I was making the decision normally, with my heart, I'd never leave Celtic. My life was great. I loved the city. I loved the people. I loved the club. I had a wonderful life. If you think of all those things, you'd never move.

Coutinho is a joy to watch.

I've studied Spanish, but I need to improve. I'll probably improve when I work in the country one day. For most people, when they travel to a country, their language becomes better.

Young players will run through a barbed wire fence for you.

The only thing that Celtic doesn't have is the propaganda, which is the Premier League. In every other aspect of football, Celtic is a huge club: fan base, stadium and history. They have a fantastic history. What it doesn't have is the opportunity to play in the Premier League.

My biggest mentor is myself, I've always felt.

When you manage Liverpool, you know the Manchester United job is gone.

I've always been a great lover of Barcelona and the structure of the club.

It turns out I share a birthday with Jose Mourinho. He is exactly 10 years older than me.

I always say to the players, 'You can either create or wait.' If you're waiting, you're relying on someone else, as simple as that. But if you create it, you've got to do it.

There's different types of strikers: Harry Kane is a wonderful finisher, Jamie Vardy has great pace and has come onto the scene exceptionally well and is playing consistently, and Wayne Rooney is a player I have admired during all of his career.

I suppose that fear of failure is what drives me on.

Whatever country you're in, you have to want to be in with a chance of winning.

Criticism comes with the territory when you don't win games.

I will only ever do my best.

Wherever you go, you have to go win.

You always want to win games and to develop the team, so it's very important that you have encouragement from your fans.

When I was at Liverpool, I asked about Van Dijk when he was at Groningen and then at Celtic. But I was told he wouldn't be for us at the time. Van Dijk could have jumped from Celtic to a Liverpool.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

You can have X amount of pounds in your bank every month, but if you're not happy, and you're not finding peace in what you're doing, it doesn't really matter.

One of my strengths is I learn, and I like to learn from all sorts of people in all walks of life.

My message is always very, very clear: I'm very concentrated on the game.

As a coach, we are not magicians; we work with the players and look to improve them and give them every opportunity, but if you are not creating or scoring goals over a consistent period of time, it is difficult for you as a coach.

It's very difficult to say that a player is irreplaceable because the nature of football means that someone always steps in to take the shirt and provides different elements to your team.

The likability of any player is always up for debate, and people will always use their own moral compass to judge Luis Suarez, but that's not something I tend to focus on. I concentrate on what he is like with me on a day-to-day basis, and he is a great man.

If you're happy, ultimately, that's all that matters.

If you are going to be successful, there is no point in having three or four top individual players, because those players will win you games, but they will never win you titles.

What I learned was it does not matter how much support you have in the boardroom, from the directors, the executives: you have to get results, and you have to win.

I always like the players to be within 10 to 15 metres of each other. When the attacking players try what I am asking them to do, and it breaks down, there are players close enough to then go and win the ball back and counter press the game.

I love the Premier League, the quality of the players, the quality of the coaches. There are great challenges. But there are arms and legs flying off managers down there.

When you have a son in football like Anton, it will always be deemed as if he got the prop up and given the contract, no matter how hard he works. So much so that when he was offered a deal at Chelsea, I advised him not to take a professional contract.

Celtic are one of the great clubs of the world. There's a pressure here that's different. You have to win every game. There's not a club in England that has that.

He's a big player, and the big players score the big goals and make the big contributions in the big games. That's what determines a great player. That's what Steven Gerrard is.

A winning model would mean trying to get the best possible players that you can, at whatever age they are; it doesn't matter.

I'm not arrogant enough to think that I will be in a job through anything. Any manager will tell you that you have to win games, and you have to get results. You have to perform.

What you have in Scotland is an unpredictability with surfaces - and I've already said you don't get good games on artificial turf - and that can affect performances and results.

I went in to Reading with the full backing of the chairman, who was great to me, and I got 20 games. Even though it was a three-year project, and I was the guy who knew the club more than anyone, I got the sack after 20 games. Funnily enough, it had just started to pick up, but they lost their patience.

The word you sometimes get is 'deluded,' they use, but for me, I've always been very positive.

I've always had one in my teams - that sort of central pivot that orchestrates the game.

If you give a good player time, he can kill you.

Liverpool is one of the superpowers of world football.