A Quote by Brendan Rodgers

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

Brendan Rodgers

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Ball Control Dominate Hungry Like Players Teams

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Brendan Rodgers
Irish - Athlete
Born: January 26, 1973

When I don't have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It's a way of defending. But more important is that I like to have the ball. That's why I believe in individual coaching sessions to prepare players properly.

Johan Cruyff

Maybe Klopp is the best manager in the world at creating teams who attack the back four with so many players, from almost anywhere on the pitch. They have an intensity with the ball and without the ball, and it is not easy to do that.

Pep Guardiola

The Premier League is guided by this dynamic: ball lost - ball recovered - ball lost again. That makes matches unpredictable, teams must be objective and behave like that because that's what excites fans.

Andre Villas-Boas

Rushing the ball is all about ball control. If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

Tiki Barber

Players who win on a clay surface are those who can control the ball, playing steadily and accurately from the back-court, keeping the ball in play and moving it around with changes of speed and spin, and resisting the temptation to over-hit.

Rod Laver

You will never run more than the ball. The players that don't lose the ball are the most important in the team, and good players decide the game.

Manuel Pellegrini

I like to watch teams who play well, ball on the floor, ball to feet, playing well as a collective.

Miralem Pjanic

Only great players can have two shots for one ball, like Tendulkar does, and a big reason is that he picks the ball very early.

Virender Sehwag

A lot of the moves I make originate from futsal. It's played in a very small space, and the ball control is different in futsal. And to this day my ball control is pretty similar to a futsal player's control.

Ronaldinho

When we have the ball, we're all offensive players. When we lose the ball, we're all defensive players.

Shkodran Mustafi

I had a vision of how basketball should be played. And the vision was the Knicks teams that won the championship in 1970 and 1973. I wanted a team that emphasized defense. I wanted a team that on offense had a system where players moved off the ball, and the ball moved.

Jerry Reinsdorf

I feel like if they put the ball in the air, it's my ball. It's either a PI or it's my ball.

DeAndre Hopkins

A lot of the time I am told to clear the ball, kick it out, 'degager le ballon' they shout, but I can't do that and if I have to do that then it feels like a defeat for me. I don't know how to do it. I never get rid of the ball that way and when I am watching TV and I see players who do get rid of the ball then I don't accept it.

Marco Verratti

The fundamentals, what I want, which is to take the ball, try to play as offensive as possible and dominate the game through the ball, is the same. I grew up with that; I was a player with that idea, and I am a coach with that idea.

Pep Guardiola

It is impossible to do it for the whole game, but when you have the ball for most of the game and have players like Samir Nasri, David Silva, Yaya Toure, and Raheem Sterling, they keep the ball so well.