Brendan Rodgers Quotes

I think Manchester United is a much bigger club than any manager in the world, and the manager who comes in should respect what Manchester United is.

I do understand Chelsea are a big club, and there is always pressure on managers to win games and trophies. So I understand they might not be willing to take a chance on someone at a bigger club.

I am very shocked and disappointed to be leaving Blackburn Rovers. I am extremely proud to have managed this club and I enjoyed a fantastic relationship with the players, my staff and the supporters during my time in charge.

We all know when you have a huge price tag on your shoulders, there's always a lot more pressure on you, a lot more expectation.

You can go to Old Trafford as Liverpool manager and get a draw, and it's not a bad result. At Celtic, there's an expectancy to win home and away.

When you come to a club like Hibs not everyone can handle it, there's pressure in every single game to get results.

When you play for Barcelona, there is always pressure to win - you play for something special. It's the same when you player for Tottenham; the names are not important.

I've been a manager in the Premier League for many years and you do become conservative when you're in that bottom section. There's so much stress, because it is so important and there's so much scrutiny.

At Real Madrid, everything gets taken to extremes, as much for the good things as the bad things, so you have to adapt to the way that the press and the fans live through different situations.

When you manage Liverpool, you know the Manchester United job is gone.

Real Madrid is bigger than egos. The club is huge and the culture of the club was so big that we were able to sign huge players. It was then up to the players to adapt to the culture and not the other way around.

I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now. These difficult periods come and you have to accept that. I did as well as I could at Newcastle.

There's always pressure on people's shoulders when it comes to Man United, and it's how you deal with the pressure.

When you've played at a club like River, who are a massive, massive club in Argentina - and Roma, the same, in Italy - you learn how to deal with the pressure. After that, you can live with anything.

The England job is unique and brings a certain pressure. I've experienced some of that pressure at the clubs I've been at.

I don't see coach job stressful, I really don't. Of course, there is pressure and expectation, but I wouldn't necessarily equate that with stress.

When you become England manager, the change in profile and interest in what you're doing is on another level.

It's a great thing to have: that pressure everywhere you go, that responsibility. I think it's good to have it.

Having the Eubank name in England brings lots of pressure.

Everyone will expect me to score in every game, which probably isn't realistic, but I'll go out trying to do that.

There are different pressures when you come to a club like Liverpool. You have to perform well each week, or people start to question you, and I discovered that as soon as I got here. It was a difficult time, but I hope I got stronger from coping with it.

Being the heavy favorite is not always a good thing because of the amount of pressure on an athlete.

I'd been at Everton for more than 11 years. We'd qualified for the Champions League, got to an FA Cup final. I'd been voted manager of the season three times.

As a forward, when you have not scored for a while the desire to score gets stronger and stronger and ultimately that can work against you because you are trying too hard to do what comes naturally.

Real Madrid demands the maximum. You have to win and please.