Carson Wentz Quotes

You've got one football and a lot of times, defenses dictate where the ball goes.

Sometimes, they do a great job covering everyone downfield, so you just have to checkdown and hit a tight end to convert. That's just how we play ball.

I feel that a lot of people say that your best passing attack is having a good run game. I couldn't agree more with that.

In football, time and space are the same thing.

When you have a lot of ball possession, you have a lot of ball possession to create chances, not to play the ball around and not score.

When teams play good football, it tends to create chances for the striker.

I love coaches that think more about attacking than defending. As a football fan, I think that's wonderful.

My teams have always been dominant about having the ball but having the ball to create opportunities. That's always been the clear way of my work.

I have to stay in front to try and create chances and be in the right place in the box.

As a player I was taught the importance of working four or five passes within your team and then stretching the play. That's something I believe in strongly as a coach.

You can learn a lot from Pep Guardiola. From pre-season to the match itself. He has a vision of the game that is impressive.

When you are a coach, you are watching how the team is positioning itself on the field - if your team is in possession of the ball, you are already anticipating what could happen if you lose the ball.

Sometimes in midfield, it's nice because you do get a little bit more of the ball, and maybe out wide you rely on people to get you the ball.

Football is about scoring, and if you want to do that, you have to go forward.

All coaches say, 'We want to control the game. We want the ball. Blah, blah, blah, blah,' but it's impossible to have the ball all the time.

I like teams to control and dominate the ball so the players are hungry for the ball.

One of the things I'd bring to Villa if I was in charge is the idea that winning is important in football, but winning while playing offensive football is the best of all.

I like to be in contact with the ball, have possession, to play.

Football is open; it is not only keeping possession of the ball and making more passes.

I like to be active in space in behind the opposition's midfield. That's where I can hurt the opponent most of all.

The most important thing is to help the team to come in front of the goal with one-two passes, I drop down, or I give them space, because for defenders, it's always difficult to have a false nine because they don't have a direct player against them, so they don't know exactly what to do.

Our style of play is increasingly based on possession of the ball. It suits me as a forward. We've got an attacking approach, and that means that I get a lot of chances; otherwise, I would have not been able to score so many goals.

The tactical way of Pep is the most incredible I have ever seen. When he was at Barcelona, that was their best team, I think.

As a wing back, when you get the ball wide, you usually don't have any help out wide. You have to be pretty good on your own out there.

Someone said that my coaching is a combination of Milan's defensive discipline and the Dutch propensity for attacking football, and I think that is a fair description.