Gordon Strachan Quotes

I like to study everything: the way to be dangerous when you are attacking; what the players should do when you don't have the ball; where they should be. The tactics you tell the players to follow come from all this study.

It is possible to stop Messi. Teams do it when he plays for Argentina. But the Barcelona Messi is different.

I know what to do when they give me the ball. I know what to do to give this team a chance to win.

The Seahawks defense has to go balls deep to win this game.

If we play in the right way and do what the manager asks us then we will win games.

The simplest way to win in the National Football League is to knock out the starting quarterback. You know, throughout the years, history has proven if your number one quarterback goes down, your chances for success become very limited.

If we don't start playing better on defense, it's going to be hard. We can't just sit there and win shootouts.

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

Any team, if you can rattle the quarterback you have an opportunity to win the game.

I think there's a lot of different ways to score points and win football games and be efficient offensively, just like there is on defense and special teams. That's what makes this great game so special.

If I was to play on the left, I'd rather play there if there was three in midfield.

When you have players like Aaron Ramsey, Gareth Bale, and Joe Allen, you've got to play football.

I prefer playing in a 4-3-3.

When you play a great team like the Patriots, you can only kick so many field goals and stay in the game.

It is always good and important that the strikers score.

I think if you're not conceding so many goals, it gives you a great platform to win games.

Defense is so important for helping your team win games and for the game in general.

I don't really care how many yards I throw for; as long as we score more points than the guys we're playing.

If we concede three, and I am marvellous on the ball, it is no good.

I'm a coach who admires attacking football. I want my teams to look to win.

We're trying to win football games, and whoever we feel like gives us the best chance is who's going to play behind center.

At the World Cup, most teams changed their style when they played us and maybe were more defensive. In the final, we didn't know if Holland were going to do the same, but the important thing was we beat them in the end.

No single player can stop Antoine Griezmann on his own.

There is no Benitez 'method.' We try to be more solid in defense without losing the quality in attack.

When you're at a club like Liverpool, it's always about what you can do with the ball.