You cannot buy players and know, for sure, that they can deliver. You cannot know because football is a team sport.
Liverpool are a very hard team to beat in front of their own crowd.
It is very difficult in the transfer market for the teams that need to improve their squads.
I've been fortunate enough to win titles; I've been unfortunate enough to get relegated as well.
The competition for World Cup places is massive, and you can't just rest on what you've done in the past or anything like that.
Brazil's always had great players, both at home and abroad, but we need to put all that talent together and mould a team out of it.
You want our team to have the best chance to win.
When it comes down to playoff basketball, it's attention to detail.
I think playoff experience matters for sure.
This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how much we want it.
That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.
You've got to turn over every stone; you've got to look for every advantage. You need to make sure you're doing everything you possibly can, not just on the field but off it, to give your team an advantage - from having a sleep expert coming to talk to your team to having an independent analysis of your team done.
I don't really care how many yards I throw for; as long as we score more points than the guys we're playing.
It is impossible to play the best of nines and expect the matches to finish on time.
When you have a bad season, 75 percent is the responsibility of the players, I really think so.
I'm definitely playing the best football of my time at Chelsea.
I've been on extremely talented teams that just don't click, and I've also been on team with a little bit less talent, but they clicked, and because they clicked, they did better than other talented teams I've been on.
The majority of our happiness at work is determined by the people who surround us. Strong teams produce more content, launch more products, and sign more contracts. And most importantly, they have fun doing it.
When you're playing against a team like India you're always going to struggle, especially as they bat all the way down the order to No. 9 and 10.
I was just taught, the team goes how the point guard goes.
The game is not won by a pep talk on Saturday. It's won by preparation of your club from Monday until game time. If they're not ready on Saturday, you're not going to get them ready by trying to inspire them with a dog-eat-dog sermon on that day.
The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.
If I have my best year yet in 2018 but we're 8-8, I didn't go to the next level. That's the reality of it.
When a scout recommends a brilliant right back or a coach recommends one from our academy, we want the manager to weigh up what is right for the team.
When I started to do it with precision, I realized how much setting good screens made us better as a team offensively. It made things easy for me and my teammates.
