Rafael Benitez Quotes

When you go 18 games unbeaten people will say 'wow he's really good' but when you make mistakes they will point the finger at the back four.

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

That's another fine mess you've gotten me into.

Obviously, being a forward, I would like to score more goals. But while the team does well, there is no problem.

Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable.

Another fine mess you've gotten me into.

No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.

I didn't cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season.

I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.

If a botch is made at the other end of the Avenue, I don't mean to be a party to it.

To err is human. To blame somebody else is politics.

I said what I said, but I shouldn’t have said it.

It’s very difficult to come to grips with how we screwed this up, but we screwed this up.

If you're doing something wrong, you deserve to be caught.

Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

Anytime you're playing with a team that's losing, the main guy is going to take a lot of the heat.

A lot of the mistakes I made were my fault.

Obviously when you're a striker you need to score. The manager's not going to just play you if you're not scoring.

It doesn't really count as a great year if the team is not doing well.

When you lose games against Slovakia and England, you're going to get the criticism that goes with it.

If you do a mistake, I think you should get punished.

To point the finger at one guy, at each other or at the coaches, won't do any good. It's not supposed to be the coach. It's our team. The coaches can do a phenomenal job preparing you, but it has to come from within.

During my first season at Manchester, the team was not performing, and I was the scapegoat.

If a team concedes a goal, then the first question is always of the goalkeeper.

I think if you're not conceding so many goals, it gives you a great platform to win games.