Top 133 Quotes & Sayings by Brendan Rodgers - Page 2

Football's a global game.

Refereeing is always an issue where you want to have the best officials, and I think the referees do their very best in the games, but we always want to improve standards across the league.

Celtic are the club I supported as a boy, and I loved every moment I was there. For me to leave there, I knew I was going to have to not just come to a club, but I had to come to a special club that was going to allow me to connect with the players and hopefully the supporters, too.

I'm enriched by all my experiences, good and bad, but I've always tried to remain committed in my life as a coach and always positive.

I think all you can worry is that you make the team the very best they can be.

I've always been inspired by people who can speak other languages.

All my career I have done that, worked with talents, improving 19-year-olds, 20-year-olds, 17-year-olds, 18-year-olds.

All players, whether they're Spanish, French, English, Welsh, want to play football. To play.

When I went in to Liverpool, my job in the first season was to cut the budget. You only need to look at the players who left. Maxi Rodriguez, Alberto Aquilani, Pepe Reina.

I always felt that by the time I would leave Chelsea I was ready to be a number one. I'd had a long apprenticeship so when I was to go, it would to be a No. 1.

All I can ever promise is that I will do my very best.

Don't be afraid to make mistakes and be able to laugh at yourself.

You can go to Old Trafford as Liverpool manager and get a draw, and it's not a bad result. At Celtic, there's an expectancy to win home and away.

It was important for me, when I left a club like Liverpool, to one, have a breather, but then my next job, I needed pressure. And there's a pressure at Celtic. It's a huge club; there's an expectancy to win every game.

Everything we did on the training pitch, we did with the ball. You'll never see a pianist run around his piano. People ask me, 'Why don't you run through the forest, through the trees?' Well, I've never seen a tree on a football field.

The experience of travelling, getting familiar with other languages, other cultures definitely helps. It makes you a better person.

I always think if you speak to someone in their second language, you speak to their head. If you speak in their first, you speak to their heart. I've always tried to let players see that.

I know how quickly it can all change. I nearly won the title at Liverpool, and everybody's saying, 'Sign him up' - then, very quickly, I was out.

As a guy from Northern Ireland who supported Celtic and worked in football, I'm living my dream here.

I speak to the Spanish players that we have in Spanish.

My father loved European football; he also loved the Brazilian team. His own dad loved the Brazilian team.

The biggest thing you can have as a football manager is happiness and energy.

I love my work.

Liverpool is one of the great institutions of the world, and you understand that when you see it from the outside, but you only really get to know when you go inside as manager.

I am better when I have control. I am not a power freak. But my point is that I need to feel that I can manage the team and have a direct, clear line through to the owners. Once that becomes hazy, for me, there is a problem.

I think wherever you go, you have to go to win.

The best players want to play in the best competition.

In football there is very rarely a "typical day" - there are always issues and challenges that arise from nowhere, and as manager you have to be ready to deal with them.

I'm blessed to be supported by some brilliant staff, who are all experts in their field and dedicated to what they do.

If one day I go to a game and I don't feel I can win, maybe I don't go.

The quality of people you have around you as a manager is so vital. There are various factors that influence that process; fitness, form and the tactical approach to your opponent are all areas I review on a daily basis.

Status does not matter. It is what you are like as a player. It doesn't matter how much money you have come for. That doesn't matter to me. I will play a 17-year-old if he fights and he has quality. It is quite easy.

I meet regularly with my staff to ensure they are aware of what I want, but also to make sure they have the chance to influence the process and use all of their knowledge to help prepare the group.

I enjoy my work. The reason I worked so hard all my life is because I want to be making big decisions and managing at the very highest level.

Of course, as manager, the selection of the team is very much one of the biggest responsibilities I personally take, but I come to that decision thanks to advice and support of the people around me.

I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence, he’ll try and get his way through it some way, but the young player will fight for you.

My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study, so that's been my biggest influence.

A player's character is a crucial factor I look into before committing to signing them. They also need to show a willingness to learn, regardless of age and experience; that's very important to me.

I'm never going to walk away because I'll always have belief that I can improve players and make things better.

They have a choice as a club. They don't have to sell. Maybe Southampton's objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe. They obviously wanted to change... I don't have sympathy, no.

I know how it goes. Six or seven months ago I was the manager of the year and I was going to be this and that, tactically this and tactically that, and now, because we have lost two world-class players, I am useless. But I accept that.

I think my history as a coach shows I like players who are gifted technically and have courage when it comes to being in possession of a football. That is a key quality for me.

I will always fight for my life for Liverpool, and that will be on and off the field.

Whilst I'm here, I'll always do the best I can.

I'd rather lose a game trying to win it, than lose it trying not to get beat

The Merseyside derby games are unique in the city.

That ability to press immediately, within five or six seconds to get the ball, is important

I must have just dreamed that about Liverpool playing 3-4-3. What do people think that was, a bit of luck? A British coach playing 3-4-3? A foreign coach doing that would be a tactical genius. I imagine people think I fell into that system through a stroke of luck or something... it took some thought. I didn't just throw them out there.

I will leave no stone unturned in my quest - and that quest will be relentless - to try and get Liverpool back on the map again as a successful football club.

Look at Tottenham. You spend over £100-odd million, you'd expect to be challenging for the league.

I dictate entirely how the team is prepared, and I am a hands-on coach; I love to be out there with the players taking the sessions.

They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium.

I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.

I think football management has obviously changed and evolved in terms of practices and methods, but I would say the values we strive to hold are the same as great men like Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley.

Even more important than statistics is then having the staff that can take the data and ensure it's presented in a way that improves individuals and teams.

My template for everything is organisation. With the ball you have to know the movement patterns, the rotation, the fluidity and positioning of the team. When we have the football everybody's a player.

The analysis of statistics is a big part of the modern game, and it's important as a modern manager to embrace areas that can help your team and players improve.

Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.

It's not always plain sailing... especially when you're flying!

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