Brendan Rodgers Quotes

You take someone like Gareth Bale out of your team, and you are going to miss that.

I always try to perform, and not because you have players on the bench or on the pitch that can play in your position.

Either a player accepts competition or they say they absolutely need to play. For a player to have an open door, I have to have, at the same position, an element that is just as good or even better.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious - even with new players. You can't, say, sell him, get a new one.

It's the same for any team... you have to keep your best players.

If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

The NBA has made a real issue about really making these superstars the premium that everybody wants to go to. That's their calling card and their marketing tool. But the coaches at the other end of the sphere are trying to make everybody on the team, even nine, 10, 11, 12, just as important, and have a real role that's meaningful.

There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.

I was an all-around player - if I was just a scorer, there's no way the Hawks would have won 50 games four years in a row.

You can't really compare teams just because of two or three players.

If we kept all the players I liked personally, we'd be a lot worse team over the years.

If you're not on a team that's winning, it takes a lot out of you as a player.

I've been in teams that have struggled and been relegated.

That's one of the things with a championship-caliber team, is how it deals with injuries.

Good teams understand how to compete, how to practice the right way.

If you don't go out there and play winning football, they're going to try and find somebody who can.

Each team is different but you give yourself a better chance if you keep the team intact.

Early in the year, you never know how teams are going to be.

The players who play have to perform. If they don't, then they will be replaced. That has always been the case.

I always believe that there are players that are hard to replace.

Injuries happen every season. We can't rely on that being a crutch. It's up to all of us to do our best to fill those voids as coaches and players.

You always have competition and great players who can play. The winner in that case is Paris Saint-Germain. With great players, even if a player is unavailable, another can come in and make the difference.

One guy can't make a team better.