Graham Potter Quotes

The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.

Sometimes in football you deserve to win but lose. Other times you deserve to lose or draw but you win. That is the game, and it's why I've always said you should never try to predict anything in football, especially in Europe.

Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot.

In football, the good thing is things can change in a second.

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

Conceding just before half-time never helps.

In football, you don't hold on to the ball just to hold on to the ball. When you have it you need to be dangerous, create opportunities and score goals. And when you don't, you make sure the opposition doesn't.

It is very tough to beat an English team. The type of football they play is only in the Premier League. They defend as though their lives depend on it. And they are very successful.

You can't control games for 90 minutes; there will be moments where the opponents will show their quality.

Once Liverpool go ahead, they are dangerous because it becomes hard to find space to break them down, especially if you are not playing all that brilliantly.

The game is 90 minutes long, and there are many phases.

If the offensive player starts losing confidence, that gets the defender's confidence up - and I think the team can feel it.

Sometimes in the Champions League, I don't think it's always the best team that wins it. It depends on how you play on a certain day.

Sometimes in football, the best team does not necessarily win; it's the team that plays best on the day that prevails.

Maybe other managers would see their team score one goal and then prefer to go back and counter-attack, then try to score the second goal. A lot of those managers are the best managers at the moment, but for me, it's very important to continue the way I play.

For me it's more difficult to play against the quicker wingers, but for the team it's perhaps more difficult to face players that are good passers, because one through ball can take the whole team out of the game.

Obviously, football is about the details, and everything can happen.

Momentum is a whole lot in the game of basketball. People dwell on momentum, but that really does matter.

When teams play good football, it tends to create chances for the striker.

Goaltending can steal you a series.

Spectacular plays just happen. That's just part of the game.

On grass, many players can be dangerous because one break can decide a whole set.

That's one of the things I always tried to do as champ. If you saw me at house shows, I was going to make you think I was going down. If I was wrestling Kane, I could lose. I'm wrestling Batista, I could lose. I'm wrestling Big Show, Undertaker, you name it, I could lose.

Moments can change games; moments can create a run.

When a team plays you by pressing so high, if you do not take advantage, they grow in their field, with their atmosphere and the goals they are making.