Phil Jones Quotes

Scoring first changes everything. It makes everything easier for us.

I just wanted to keep the game close until we scored some runs.

When you are 10 points behind, you have to be focused just on the next game.

It is a lot harder when you are 4-1 down than when you are 4-1 up.

Sometimes that happens. I know how it feels to lose eight or nine to nothing. It can be frustrating but it was good for us. This was a team that was hot the last nine games. It seemed like any puck we touched went our way.

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.

The worst loss in my career - the 2002 World Championship final against Peter Ebdon.

In the Premier League, almost everyone is difficult to beat; it depends on how you begin a game and how you play in the game.

When you're 2-0 down after 30 minutes, then you know it's going to be tough.

It doesn't feel good in the NFL when you lose a football game until you get out there and win another one and another one.

Being down 3-1 [in the Finals] was the worst feeling I've ever experienced in my life.

In the league, if you have a bad spell, then you are running behind.

It's a privilege to be a football manager, even when you've been beaten or you're bottom of the table.

When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the fight.

It was fun winning with the Nasty Nine, but it didn't feel good going into every game with the Nasty Nine, I tell you that.

The big plays will come.

It's never easy to lose the games and then come back stronger.

Teams struggle when they come to Stamford Bridge and, if we score one or two, everything seems to open up for us. We need to work hard to get into that position in the first place, but you can see what happens once we are ahead.

If you get taken out after 20 minutes it's a big blow to you.

Football is a funny game. Today, you are zero; tomorrow, you are a hero.

I was at Watford and got a knock-back when I was 16 and didn't get a YTS contract. They said I could find another club or go in and train three times a week after school. I'd been there since I was 10, so I got my head down and proved them wrong. Within a year, they had signed me up, and I haven't looked back.

San Siro is a tricky stadium. If you have the right personality, it helps you. But if you don't have the right personality, it can be very hard to play in San Siro.

If I lose to Frank Mir, I have to find something else to do.

Moments can change games; moments can create a run.

Trust me, Stade is not a comfortable place to be if you're losing, regardless of the venue.