Words matter. These are the best Steve Nicol Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When you’re signing an older player, part of it is can he help the rest of the team with his professionalism, with the way he goes about training every day?
Eat like a horse? Fine, just not six bags of crisps on a matchday!
Father Time catches up with us all.
There’s nothing wrong with crying and moaning, but you can do that for a minute and then you get on with it.
Playing for Boston Bulldogs in front of 700 to 800 fans was obviously different from playing for Liverpool in front of the Kop and 40,000 passionate Reds.
Mourinho criticised Eden Hazard for not doing his defensive duties. Eden Hazard is the type of player that you take that responsibility off.
Be prepared for every eventuality, both at Liverpool Football Club and in life.
The bottom line is it’s a pleasure to be working for the Kraft family.
Both my parents were keen golfers and Dad was such a creature of habit that he didn’t see much of me at Ayr United because he always played a round on Saturdays. He was an old-school parent of his time and I’ve no complaints.
When people are fatigued they make mistakes that they maybe wouldn’t otherwise make.
As great as Sadio Mane is, John Barnes is one of the best players I have ever played with – and I’ve played with a lot of good players at Liverpool.
Most people satisfy their appetite when they sit down to eat. I’m not most people.
The Kraft family does it in the proper way. They genuinely care about their teams and who is involved with their teams. If you put it in simple terms, Mr Kraft is a great businessman and the guy is in the business of winning.
Preseason, you generally just want to make sure people work hard, do the basics right.
When Jose Mourinho went to Real Madrid many moons ago, he no question was the man, but he turned them into a defensive side. He went to Chelsea, won the league and all of a sudden he’s on the up again. The following year, complete and utter dismay and then he turned Manchester United into a side that finished sixth.
During my first eight years at the Revs we drafted really well, but I got very little from the last two drafts that I took part in.
It’s the same with most injuries, different players take different amounts of time.
I’ve no idea if I’ll manage in the Premier League. It’s easy to say I will but you don’t know.
Oh it kills me to see Liverpool lose.
If you’ve got Godin and Chiellini as your centre-backs, then you can have more attacking full-backs, as opposed to defensive ones.
That feeling when I got the New England Revolution job on a permanent basis was one of relief, similar to when I signed for Sheffield Wednesday – I knew I was capable of doing a job at a decent level again but I just needed someone to believe in me.
If the guys up front don’t get possession, they can’t score.
Everyone has talent; it’s finding a player who fits in, who’s better than what we have.
Players when they’re linked with Real Madrid, their eyes light up.
It’s page one, rule one. Set piece, pick up your man.
Not everybody is like Bobby Robson, going on forever.
When we were winning the League, United always raised their game when they played us.
You have to have your feet in the right position to make a pass, a lot of small things go into making a simple, straightforward pass.
I came to New England Revolution as an assistant in 2000 and I took over the hot-seat a couple of months into that season. We got to the MLS cup final that year, and in 2004, 2005 and 2006 – but we lost all of them.
I think Sadio Mane is lucky the way Liverpool play. His job is pretty much to stay on one half of the field. Yes, he does come back and help out defensively every now and again, but generally he’s told to stay in the attacking half of the field and go at defenders.
I do my best every day that I come to work.
The coaching staff expected us to show up on time, give it our all and leave nothing out there. By all means play hard but work harder. That was part of the Liverpool Way.
There aren’t enough guys who take it personally if they get beat one on one.
Everyone wants more money, but if the motivation is money it’s not going to work, if that’s the only thing you want.
When it comes to Real Madrid, anything’s possible.
I’ve always felt I’ve made a contribution wherever I’ve been.
I left Liverpool during the 1993-94 season to join Notts County as a player-coach under Howard Kendall.
Teams that come up, as soon as they realise they’re in big trouble the first thing they do is change the manger.
At the end of the day, if you want to go somewhere you can make it happen.
Landon Donovan has always been about being the focal point of the team.
I think sometimes it’s a little bit dangerous to change things when clearly they’re working.
When you’re a head coach there’s never a minute of the day when you’re not thinking about your team. But when things aren’t going well any problems are just accentuated.
Two of my most important signings were made at the beginning of 2004. I took 20-year-old Clint Dempsey with the eighth pick of the MLS SuperDraft and added 51-year-old ex-Arsenal striker Paul Mariner as my assistant on a free transfer from Harvard University, where he’d been coaching.
I know the ‘Have a nice day’ attitude gets mocked but I like America’s positivity. When I go back to Scotland folk seem so miserable.
To get players for MLS, we sometimes had to go to places where nobody else goes. The big teams have global scouting networks but we had to be creative.
