I went in to Reading with the full backing of the chairman, who was great to me, and I got 20 games. Even though it was a three-year project, and I was the guy who knew the club more than anyone, I got the sack after 20 games. Funnily enough, it had just started to pick up, but they lost their patience.

Brendan Rodgers

The experience of travelling, getting familiar with other languages, other cultures definitely helps. It makes you a better person.

Brendan Rodgers

Travel Experience Age

What you have in Scotland is an unpredictability with surfaces - and I've already said you don't get good games on artificial turf - and that can affect performances and results.

Brendan Rodgers

Good Art You

When you're so young, it's important to understand exactly what your role is. Not just look good - you have to be efficient and effective.

Brendan Rodgers

Good Your Young

When you have a son in football like Anton, it will always be deemed as if he got the prop up and given the contract, no matter how hard he works. So much so that when he was offered a deal at Chelsea, I advised him not to take a professional contract.

Brendan Rodgers

Work You Works

I'm not arrogant enough to think that I will be in a job through anything. Any manager will tell you that you have to win games, and you have to get results. You have to perform.

Brendan Rodgers

Age You Win

Liverpool is one of the superpowers of world football.

Brendan Rodgers

Power World Up

Criticism comes with the territory when you don't win games.

Brendan Rodgers

You Wit Win

He's a big player, and the big players score the big goals and make the big contributions in the big games. That's what determines a great player. That's what Steven Gerrard is.

Brendan Rodgers

Great Term T

Whatever country you're in, you have to want to be in with a chance of winning.

Brendan Rodgers

Chance You Wit

I had a wonderful time at Liverpool. My three and a half years there was a great experience.

Brendan Rodgers

Time Great Experience

My biggest mentor is myself, I've always felt.

Brendan Rodgers

Men Ways Way

I think all you can worry is that you make the team the very best they can be.

Brendan Rodgers

You Worry Very

Believe it or not, the sky is blue here in Glasgow. I absolutely love it here.

Brendan Rodgers

Love T Sky

It's very difficult to say that a player is irreplaceable because the nature of football means that someone always steps in to take the shirt and provides different elements to your team.

Brendan Rodgers

Nature Men Your

If you are going to be successful, there is no point in having three or four top individual players, because those players will win you games, but they will never win you titles.

Brendan Rodgers

Success You Win

It turns out I share a birthday with Jose Mourinho. He is exactly 10 years older than me.

Brendan Rodgers

Birthday Years Year

How you succeed is how you deal with failure. Whatever way you dress it up, something hasn't worked.

Brendan Rodgers

Work Failure You

Celtic are the club I supported as a boy, and I loved every moment I was there. For me to leave there, I knew I was going to have to not just come to a club, but I had to come to a special club that was going to allow me to connect with the players and hopefully the supporters, too.

Brendan Rodgers

Mom Men Love

I went in to Reading with the full backing of the chairman, who was great to me, and I got 20 games. Even though it was a three-year project, and I was the guy who knew the club more than anyone, I got the sack after 20 games. Funnily enough, it had just started to pick up, but they lost their patience.

Brendan Rodgers

Patience Great Art

I'm very proud of my work at Watford in what has been a short period.

Brendan Rodgers

Work Very T

The word you sometimes get is 'deluded,' they use, but for me, I've always been very positive.

Brendan Rodgers

If I was making the decision normally, with my heart, I'd never leave Celtic. My life was great. I loved the city. I loved the people. I loved the club. I had a wonderful life. If you think of all those things, you'd never move.

Brendan Rodgers

I always say to the players, 'You can either create or wait.' If you're waiting, you're relying on someone else, as simple as that. But if you create it, you've got to do it.

Brendan Rodgers

I suppose that fear of failure is what drives me on.

Brendan Rodgers

I like teams to control and dominate the ball so the players are hungry for the ball.

Brendan Rodgers

If you give a good player time, he can kill you.

Brendan Rodgers

Wherever you go, you have to go win.

Brendan Rodgers

I will only ever do my best.

Brendan Rodgers

What I learned was it does not matter how much support you have in the boardroom, from the directors, the executives: you have to get results, and you have to win.

Brendan Rodgers

Simon Mignolet has been first class.

Brendan Rodgers

Young players will run through a barbed wire fence for you.

Brendan Rodgers

A winning model would mean trying to get the best possible players that you can, at whatever age they are; it doesn't matter.

Brendan Rodgers

I think sometimes you can want to win too much, and the focus comes away from what allows you to win.

Brendan Rodgers

When you manage Liverpool, you know the Manchester United job is gone.

Brendan Rodgers

Coutinho is a joy to watch.

Brendan Rodgers

I've always been a great lover of Barcelona and the structure of the club.

Brendan Rodgers

The key for scouting is trying to predict when the player is peaking.

Brendan Rodgers

When I was at Liverpool, I asked about Van Dijk when he was at Groningen and then at Celtic. But I was told he wouldn't be for us at the time. Van Dijk could have jumped from Celtic to a Liverpool.

Brendan Rodgers

Would I work in Scotland again? Of course I would. I loved every single second of being there.

Brendan Rodgers

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

Brendan Rodgers

One of my strengths is I learn, and I like to learn from all sorts of people in all walks of life.

Brendan Rodgers

The team is the most important thing.

Brendan Rodgers

Racism - whether it's in football or society, there's absolutely no place for it.

Brendan Rodgers

I always like the players to be within 10 to 15 metres of each other. When the attacking players try what I am asking them to do, and it breaks down, there are players close enough to then go and win the ball back and counter press the game.

Brendan Rodgers

My teams have always been dominant about having the ball but having the ball to create opportunities. That's always been the clear way of my work.

Brendan Rodgers

I've got huge respect for Arsenal as a club.

Brendan Rodgers

Liverpool give young players a good opportunity.

Brendan Rodgers

You make mistakes in your life, especially when you're young.

Brendan Rodgers

If you're happy, ultimately, that's all that matters.

Brendan Rodgers

You can have X amount of pounds in your bank every month, but if you're not happy, and you're not finding peace in what you're doing, it doesn't really matter.

Brendan Rodgers