Phil Jones Quotes

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

There is so much interaction in a football match: between you and your team-mates and how you support each other, work for each other, make runs. But I also enjoy the other aspect: the pressing and how people work so hard to recover the ball.

A big part of my game is movement. The players that I play with understand that and took the time to see where I like to run, and it's worked out.

I believe I am a player that can organise the game well for my team.

Football is a really simple game, and the most important thing, in any formation, is that the players do their jobs, not the formation which they play in.

In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.

The Barcelona players have reached an amazing mutual understanding that they can play with their eyes closed.

I'd like to teach my players how to play and not just run plays.

I've always had one in my teams - that sort of central pivot that orchestrates the game.

The big thing is to win, but to look at the long-term, you need one way to play, and the philosophy is not only to put 11 players on the pitch and play football.

There are a lot of things you learn from playing wide. You also understand the way that you can coordinate with the front three or front two.

You work to make sure that, in the game, everybody knows where they're supposed to be at, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But if you put them in a position to be successful, that's all you can ask for.

I think defending is more of, like, a science, and it's fun to learn that. And then I see attacking as an art.

For me, good football is not about how many skills you show or how many players you beat. It's about making the right decision every time you have the ball.

It is not just willy-nilly running around. I need to fill certain spaces and make sure we are covered on both sides of the ruck and the numbers are right.

Football is not an exact science, but it is about chemistry: Ronaldo and Mandzukic, when they are together, have an excellent understanding.

It's my job to run the offense and make sure everything goes smoothly.

I like to watch teams who play well, ball on the floor, ball to feet, playing well as a collective.

You have to do the tactics to win games because if you have good organisation and know what to do, you'll know where the weaknesses are in the opponent.

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

It's not enough just being a good passer of the ball.

There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.