When you have a son in football like Anton, it will always be deemed as if he got the prop up and given the contract, no matter how hard he works. So much so that when he was offered a deal at Chelsea, I advised him not to take a professional contract.

Brendan Rodgers

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I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.

Brendan Rodgers

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My template for everything is organisation. With the ball you have to know the movement patterns, the rotation, the fluidity and positioning of the team. When we have the football everybody's a player.

Brendan Rodgers

team player football

It's not always plain sailing... especially when you're flying!

Brendan Rodgers

sailing flying

The Merseyside derby games are unique in the city.

Brendan Rodgers

unique games football

Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.

Brendan Rodgers

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My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study, so that's been my biggest influence.

Brendan Rodgers

mentor influence study

They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium.

Brendan Rodgers

stadiums cost football

They have a choice as a club. They don't have to sell. Maybe Southampton's objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe. They obviously wanted to change... I don't have sympathy, no.

Brendan Rodgers

champions-league football believe

Look at Tottenham. You spend over £100-odd million, you'd expect to be challenging for the league.

Brendan Rodgers

league challenges football

Liverpool Football Club is the heartland of football folklore

Brendan Rodgers

clubs heart football

I'd rather lose a game trying to win it, than lose it trying not to get beat

Brendan Rodgers

games winning trying

In football there is very rarely a "typical day" - there are always issues and challenges that arise from nowhere, and as manager you have to be ready to deal with them.

Brendan Rodgers

issues challenges football

That ability to press immediately, within five or six seconds to get the ball, is important

Brendan Rodgers

balls six important

Status does not matter. It is what you are like as a player. It doesn't matter how much money you have come for. That doesn't matter to me. I will play a 17-year-old if he fights and he has quality. It is quite easy.

Brendan Rodgers

fighting player years

I'm never going to walk away because I'll always have belief that I can improve players and make things better.

Brendan Rodgers

walks player belief

The best players want to play in the best competition.

Brendan Rodgers

competition player want

I know how it goes. Six or seven months ago I was the manager of the year and I was going to be this and that, tactically this and tactically that, and now, because we have lost two world-class players, I am useless. But I accept that.

Brendan Rodgers

player football years

I dictate entirely how the team is prepared, and I am a hands-on coach; I love to be out there with the players taking the sessions.

Brendan Rodgers

team player hands

I must have just dreamed that about Liverpool playing 3-4-3. What do people think that was, a bit of luck? A British coach playing 3-4-3? A foreign coach doing that would be a tactical genius. I imagine people think I fell into that system through a stroke of luck or something... it took some thought. I didn't just throw them out there.

Brendan Rodgers

football people thinking

The analysis of statistics is a big part of the modern game, and it's important as a modern manager to embrace areas that can help your team and players improve.

Brendan Rodgers

team player games