Tyrone Mings Quotes

If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose.

If you have a game where you're under pressure, obviously there are going to be a lot of shots on target, and you're going to make saves, but you can't say you played well in a game where you concede five goals. It's ridiculous.

The teams that defend well are as important as those that attack well. If you don't concede goals it is much easier to win but it is all about having balance.

What interests Chiellini and I is not conceding goals. We're able to create chances and it makes us happy when we take them.

Of course you don't want to concede a goal in any game.

When we have a defensive situation in which we are conceding too many goals, it is not just a problem in the defense but the entire team, starting with the coach.

Everyone thinks I'm looking for attacking football all the time. But the foundation is how you defend - keep a clean sheet, and you have a decent chance to win a game of football.

It doesn't matter how many goals you score; one goal is enough if you don't let one in your net.

If a team concedes a goal, then the first question is always of the goalkeeper.

You have to win the title with a strong team and a strong defence, but I don't only like to talk about the four defenders and the goalkeeper when you concede goals. It's about the team.

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

It is never good to concede a goal; it is part of our job not to concede, just as it is part of our job to score.

The beginning of everything is our defensive organisation. The clean sheet is always the first objective that we have in the game. Always.

If you play bad, you can win the games, but you have to play good and get the three points.

As a defender, we take pride in getting clean sheets.

I like entertaining football but, at the same time, you can't concede goals. That's a tricky balance to find.

Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.

It's important for us, if we're going to be a good team, to be a good defensive team in the fourth quarter.

The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.

Big plays are such a huge factor in the outcome of games. It is so difficult to go the distance on a defense.

You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.

What else does a manager do but push buttons? He doesn't hit, he doesn't run, he doesn't throw, and he doesn't catch the ball. A manager has twenty-five players, or twenty-five buttons, and he selects which one he'll use, or push, that day. The manager who presses the right buttons most often is the one who wins the most games.

If I'm playing bad, then I know we're not winning a lot of games, and we're definitely not No. 1 in pass defense.