Defensive Errors Quotes

I've been trying to figure out what mistakes I'm making defensively as far as help defensive stuff.

Team speed for Christ's sake. You got bleeping' bleep bleep little fleas on the bleeping' bases getting picked off, trying to steal, getting thrown out, taking runs away from you. You get some big bleep bleepers that can hit the bleeping ball out of ballpark and you can't make any bleep bleeping mistakes.

I'm the type of player who takes risks, so every now and then I'm going to give the ball away. I just have to learn not to do it in silly areas of the pitch.

If you are making mistakes at centre-back then inevitably that results in an effort on your goal and your goalkeeper has to make a save.

When you go 18 games unbeaten people will say 'wow he's really good' but when you make mistakes they will point the finger at the back four.

The goals we get against are not really that people outplay us. I think it's the mistakes we make. It's when we have the ball at the back, we lose a few balls sometimes - that's also the risk with the way we play. It's not like they created the chance. We make two mistakes, and then we get the goals against.

I have always said that a striker scores a goal but not every goal is scored by a striker. A goalkeeper can make a mistake which is a goal, but every goal still goes past him and you have to accept that.

I don't know one player who doesn't make a mistake, especially a defender and especially how we play at Liverpool.

When you look at the goals he has been criticised for, at some point they could have been prevented by a defender, or it was a misunderstanding. It is not down to Joe Hart on his own.