Gary Cahill Quotes

You have to have something in your head to understand the Barcelona play. You have to adapt as quickly as possible.

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

When you play in Serie A, it's crucial to keep a clear head and use it for more than just scoring goals.

It's all about controlling the huddle one play at a time and knowing my assignment, knowing my progression and where I've got to go with the ball.

We need to be aware of what we need to do at every moment... and we have to manage the game; that's the art of a great team.

I had a good football intelligence. I didn't need 10 games to get used to a position. I could go out and do a job.

Jorginho is really suitable to the way I like to play. He is a player that has many good sides to him. He wants to work hard, and he's very fast in moving the ball, which is important for us, although there is also Cesc Fabregas, who has the same potential as Jorginho.

And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.

The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

You have got to boss scrums. The players need to know what you want them to adhere to. Then it is up to them to decide whether they are adhering to that or not.

My thing is to execute the given play, execute the game plan to the best of my ability. If the option is for me to make a play when I have to, I will. Or I'll put myself in the best situation to do so.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

To have a high basketball IQ, I think you have to be unselfish, but also selfish at the same time. To be able to say, okay, I know this is going to work, so let's do it.

Spalletti made a difference for me. He gives great importance to the details and, at minimum, wants the goalkeeper to know how to play with the ball at his feet.

The work is intense. You have to calculate a great deal very quickly which requires football intelligence and real concentration. Part of my role is to shuttle between the defense and the attacking lines to make sure that the ball circulates well and quickly.

Usually, the most intelligent player is a midfielder.

Playing me in different positions helped me to get in the head of the others players: to know what they're thinking, where and how they are going to move.

To say we have to play a certain way, or try to, every game is great in theory, but depending what players you have got you have to play to their strengths and cover up their weaknesses.

I think I'm quite a clever player and that I realise there are times when I can be offensive but others when I must be more compact and work for the team, because that is what matters.

Guardiola likes footballers who can pass the ball, who have eyes for the best position and the right runs.

When you play the top sides you cannot afford to be as open as 4-4-2 can leave you. Consequently teams adapt their formation.

That's the job of a quarterback, to go out there and be confident with the communication of the play, in the huddle and with my play.

I like the Klopp mentality but at the same time, I like the Pep culture about football because always we need intensity with and without the ball.

I'd say my main quality is keeping the ball and my passing.