Brendan Rodgers Quotes

It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?

My management skills are more suited to developing teams to be better than what they were before, and not just about avoiding relegation.

It's about the process. It's about getting better. 'Let's execute on this play, let's execute on this drive.' You do those things, and over the course of the season you'll get better as a team and you'll get to a point where hopefully you're playing at a high level to win the games that really become at another level.

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.

Above all else show the data.

Information is expanding daily. How to get it out visually is important.

The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or European Commission tables.

There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit... bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from.

There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw.

One of the things I enjoy most during the World Cup is watching a team improve, mature, and gel during the course of the tournament.

A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

Good data is hard to find. Hard data is good to find.

If you identify those guys - something we have done in the past - who are not as valued in the current market for whatever reason and you look to get them to play at a higher level than where they have come from. That's how you develop the team.

Even the best team in the world can improve.

Scientific data are not taken for museum purposes; they are taken as a basis for doing something. If nothing is to be done with the data, then there is no use in collecting any. The ultimate purpose of taking data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation for action. The step intermediate between the collection of data and the action is prediction.

Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences.

The reality, ... is that I need to win games of football. That's where the pressure and the sleepless nights come from. There's a fantasy pressure with this job but none of that matters. I need to make this team into a good unit, need to take it forward, give it a change of pace, need to get it younger and to use the experience of the lads we've got here. I need Lennon and Sutton and people like that to go and show how you handle being a Celtic player.

The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape.

Data is the new soil, because for me, it feels like a fertile, creative medium. Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.

Big data is indeed a buzzword but it is one that is frankly under-hyped.

Statistics do not speak for themselves.

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.

Data really powers everything that we do.