Bren Top Ten
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. “My biggest mentor is myself because I’ve had to study, so that’s been my biggest influence.”
4. “I am not a power freak.”
5. “You train dogs, I like to educate players.”
6. ‘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.”
7. ”I use a quote with the players,“Per aspera ad astra”, which is Latin for ‘through adversity to the stars’.”
8. “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.”
9. “I will leave no stone unturned in my quest – and that quest will be relentless.”
10. ”We play with 11 men; other teams play with 10 men and a goalkeeper.”