Oliver Burke Quotes

I think there is a difference between being critical of plays and being critical of players and coaches.

If you are the coach of a national team, you have to evaluate players based on what they do on the pitch.

We have three kinds of guys on our team. We have guys that get it; they play good; they understand how to play winning football. We have some guys that are trying to get it, and they are working hard every day? We are supporting them, and we want the guys that have it to support them. Then we have some guys that don't get it and don't know that they don't get it. We are trying to replace them. We only have a couple left.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

Speaking to the coach has been my number-one criterion at every club I've played for to find out what he expects from me, how he will make me improve, and that he'll play me.

In any footballer's head there comes a point where he recognises that he needs to be playing more games.

It's no good if you are at a so-called best team, but you sit on a bench.

I've got to think through all of those things - competition for places, players who need match minutes, and keeping the unity of the squad.

As a player, you always want to play - it would be wrong to say otherwise - but you can always understand the manager's reasons if he decides to leave you out.

The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player's responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch.

I'm a good listener, and I take into consideration everything people tell me, but at the same time, I believe my eyes as well as the experience I had as a player. So players who underperform? There has to be a reason why... my job is for them to perform.

If you want to speak about scoring goals, you should judge every midfielder the same way.

We're always trying to evolve and find more efficient ways, more fluent ways to evaluate our players, evaluate our opponent and evaluate our prospects.

If a player sits out a tour, it is not a problem, because it is a chance to look at others.

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

They say that when it comes to the depth chart, it can change any day and that we dictate how the depth chart goes. If one person has a great day, he might be going with the 'ones.' If a person slips up a little bit, he might be going with the 'twos' and 'threes.'

You make mental notes. You're a coach, so you make mental notes from matchups, to who steps up in the playoffs to who doesn't, different types of players.

As an NFL analyst, my job was to watch countless hours of game film and critique NFL coaches and that's what I've been doing the last 10 years. And there are coaches that I question in the NFL, and at other big collegiate institutions.

I went away with Scotland because I was trying to get some game-time somewhere but it just wasn't working out with Scotland, the results weren't happening.

Moise Kean is Moise Kean and Lukaku is Lukaku. It doesn't make sense to make these comparisons.

It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.

For a club to come and get you, they are going to use you at some stage.

I had a good time at Chelsea and was accepted in the team, so it's difficult to explain why I left. My performances were good as well, but there was a time in my second season when I felt I didn't have the manager's trust any more and I didn't play many matches from the start.

I don't know why Mourinho didn't trust me.