Top 20 Brilliantly Cringeworthy Brendan Rodgers Quotes
By Chris Wright
Liverpool honcho Brendan Rodgers likes to talk in parables. He’s very much the Jesus of middle-management-style football coaching. Here are his greatest hits…
1. ”It was a perfect away performance, apart from the first 10 minutes.”
2. “I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.”
3. On Luis Suarez: “He is a real warrior of spirit.”
4. “My biggest mentor is myself because I’ve had to study, so that’s been my biggest influence.”
5. “I am not a power freak.” (We think the lady doth protest too much!)
6. “I started coaching for one reason and that was to make a difference for people, not just as footballers but as human beings.”
7. “When we have the football, everybody’s a player.”
8. “You train dogs, I like to educate players.”
9. ‘I think there’s three players who will let us down this year — the cause, the fight, everything – and I have written them down already in these three envelopes. Make sure you are not in one of the envelopes.”
10.”I use a quote with the players,“Per aspera ad astra”, which is Latin for ‘through adversity to the stars’.”
11. “When you’ve got the ball 65-70% of the time, it’s a football death for the other team. We’re not at that stage yet, but that’s what we will get to. It’s death by football. You just suck the life out of them.”
12. “Joe Allen is one of the most courageous players I’ve seen.
13. “I will leave no stone unturned in my quest – and that quest will be relentless.”
14. “I always say a squad is like a good meal – I’m not a great cook but a good meal takes a wee bit of time, but also to offer a good meal you need good ingredients.”
15. “All I’ll ever do is all I’ve ever done in any job, and that’s promise to fight for my life for the people of the city.”
16. On the ‘Being: Liverpool’ documentary: “It was something I didn’t watch, and thankfully it’s over.”
17. “I’ve always worked along the statistic, that if you can dominate the game with the ball you have a 79% chance of winning a game of football.”
18. “I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence.”
19. “The problem with being a manager is it’s like trying to build an aircraft while it is flying.”
20. ”We play with 11 men, other teams play with 10 men and a goalkeeper.”
“Goddamn it I don’t half talk some cobblers”
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Somebody thinks they’re Bill Shankly, they’re not.
Remind anyone of Michael Scott or David Brent? He even looked the part in that “Office style” documentary Being Liverpool
A used car salesman of a manager.
Chris,
Looking at your body of work on this site, you really do hate Liverpool, don’t you? Just about all of these quotes could come from any manager in the game, so this seems more to be about calling out out Liverpool.
@Steven: Yep, caught me out. Rampant anti-Liverpool agenda.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/12/who-said-it-rodgers-brent_n_2667551.html
Oh no, not similies. And metaphors, who needs ‘em? And as for latin! LATIN! The pretentious so-and-so.
*sigh*
This is a bloke who has to fill two press conferences a week, he’s bound to drop the odd clunker. For that, the consensus seems to be that he deserves ridculing.
I actually quite like number 19.
@Steven that’s the only reason I come here, the daily scouse bashing.
Ya you do continuously criticise Liverpool. If you don’t have an agenda against them, you are trying really hard to make it look like you do.
Typical liverpool fans…they are always the victims! They will always find a way to victimize themselves.
But in reality, look at your previous managers…
They are all, without fail, proper blokes.
Just when i thought Dalglish’s quotes couldn’t get any more retarded, BR usurped him with some gusto.
I never followed BR while at Swansea, but its almost as if all these men go mad after they take over the reins at liverpool lol.
Don’t forget the ‘we can finish 2nd’ quote, also by no other than Mayor Quimby..errr… Brenan Rodgers lol
@James C. Taylor
Me too
There’s no agenda against Liverpool here on Pies, it’s just really easy to take the piss out of them when they have this massive dickhead at the reins, a healthy selection of detestable players, and an overwhelming sense of self-entitlement.
@Steven Lighten up. I’m a Liverpool fan and I find these fucking hilarious!
Brendan Rogers looks like an elephant that has had its trunk cut off.
I feel like its more of a matter of people not understanding these quotes than their actually being that over-the-top. Like the last one… He’s saying he gets the keeper more involved in the game, and has the keeper come out to play the ball at his feet. How is that cringe worthy?
*Sigh* Anyway, just a bunch of haters, and haters who are gonna try to have a go at my comment, so fudge y’all.