Top 40 Brendan Rodgers Quotes

I had a wonderful time at Liverpool. My three and a half years there was a great experience.

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

The only thing that Celtic doesn’t have is the propaganda, which is the Premier League. In every other aspect of football, Celtic is a huge club: fan base, stadium and history. They have a fantastic history. What it doesn’t have is the opportunity to play in the Premier League.

What I learned was it does not matter how much support you have in the boardroom, from the directors, the executives: you have to get results, and you have to win.

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.

Believe it or not, the sky is blue here in Glasgow. I absolutely love it here.

I will only ever do my best.

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’m not arrogant enough to think that I will be in a job through anything. Any manager will tell you that you have to win games, and you have to get results. You have to perform.

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

I went in to Reading with the full backing of the chairman, who was great to me, and I got 20 games. Even though it was a three-year project, and I was the guy who knew the club more than anyone, I got the sack after 20 games. Funnily enough, it had just started to pick up, but they lost their patience.

Simon Mignolet has been first class.

My message is always very, very clear: I’m very concentrated on the game.

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

The word you sometimes get is ‘deluded,’ they use, but for me, I’ve always been very positive.

I’ve got huge respect for Arsenal as a club.

Celtic are one of the great clubs of the world. There’s a pressure here that’s different. You have to win every game. There’s not a club in England that has that.

I always like the players to be within 10 to 15 metres of each other. When the attacking players try what I am asking them to do, and it breaks down, there are players close enough to then go and win the ball back and counter press the game.

Coutinho is a joy to watch.

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.

What you have in Scotland is an unpredictability with surfaces – and I’ve already said you don’t get good games on artificial turf – and that can affect performances and results.

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

There’s different types of strikers: Harry Kane is a wonderful finisher, Jamie Vardy has great pace and has come onto the scene exceptionally well and is playing consistently, and Wayne Rooney is a player I have admired during all of his career.

How you succeed is how you deal with failure. Whatever way you dress it up, something hasn’t worked.

You make mistakes in your life, especially when you’re young.

I always say to the players, ‘You can either create or wait.’ If you’re waiting, you’re relying on someone else, as simple as that. But if you create it, you’ve got to do it.

One of my strengths is I learn, and I like to learn from all sorts of people in all walks of life.

Young players will run through a barbed wire fence for you.

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.

I’ve been fortunate enough to work with lots of really good players, so it would be disrespectful to single out the best.

Would I work in Scotland again? Of course I would. I loved every single second of being there.

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

I’m very proud of my work at Watford in what has been a short period.

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

I think sometimes you can want to win too much, and the focus comes away from what allows you to win.

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.

If you are going to be successful, there is no point in having three or four top individual players, because those players will win you games, but they will never win you titles.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

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

Sometimes keepers are looked at differently to outfield players.