Brendan Rodgers Quotes

Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.

There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

Playing left midfield a lot at West Ham has been tough but the manager has put me there and I've got every faith in what he's doing.

I came from a high school where I didn't have a playbook or anything like that. Coach would draw it up and get the headset on, and we'd go after it.

It's a different style the way the German players play. I think the English players like to play a lot of one and two touch and we can find each other in the pockets.

Even the best team, without a sound plan, can't score.

You see the assets of your actors and you see their strengths and you try to play into them. It's like I feel part of my job is as a coach. I'm putting a team on the field and you want to formulate how to make the best game out of these players.

I know what to do when they give me the ball. I know what to do to give this team a chance to win.

In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.

There are two ways of getting the ball. One is from your own team-mates, and that's the only way

If my forward arrives in a one vs one situation, I always say: 'let him work it out.' Then my players say: But we can help him!'. My reply is: First, there's a good chance you'll only run in his way, and as a second attacker you're drawing a second defender with you, and two vs two is harder than one vs one.'

Football is not an exact science, but it is about chemistry: Ronaldo and Mandzukic, when they are together, have an excellent understanding.

When you're at a club like Liverpool, it's always about what you can do with the ball.

In football, there has always been this idea of having a left-footer and a right-footer in central defence.

At Barca B, I played No. 9 and think I played well.

Whatever the coaches want to call and are comfortable with me me running, I'm always down.

I think when I played at Juventus, that was the best team.

I want to develop an atmosphere where the selectors, captain, and coach are on the same page because, unless this happens, there will be no turnaround in our cricket.

Everyone wants to score goals - that's the point of football - but you have to look at the whole situation in detail.

I don't put nothing past no man who ever played the game of football.

In my period at Chelsea, I was sometimes the one who switched sides because we were playing with two left-footed guys on the wings with myself and Damian Duff.

I played behind Phil Thompson and Alan Hansen, and they were both brilliant centre-halves.

Everyone is happy to play for Tottenham.