Phil Brown Quotes

The plans we put in place this week have gone according to plan.

He had his hands full with Adi Akinbiyi when he came on, he had his hands full with Andy Gray from the start and in other ways he had his hands full with Kyle Lafferty and Robbie Blake as well. He's had four or five strikers coming at him and he's stood up to them manfully.

It's vitally important that as manager you make decisions.

At this moment in time, it's pointing in the direction that the players aren't good enough, to be able to (i) take on the instructions that we give them and (ii) deal with the situation when the pressure is turned up - and it's disappointing. OK, there's a disappointing group of players in there but you keep on shooting yourself in the foot week in and week out. Something has to change.

The players have got to know that we are not firing at them by the seat of our pants.

We gave ourselves a hill to climb and we climbed it.

You get pictures in pre-season. You get pictures of fitness, you get pictures of attitude, you get pictures of mentality, you get pictures of systems and the way players play and you also get pictures of whether people can step up to the plate in the Premier League. I was getting all those pictures in the first half

His manager is a former player of Derby County and is recommending that Derby County is the place to be, that guy being Mikkel Beck. He speaks very highly of me. It's ongoing again. These scenarios take time.

There was pride in the shirt. There was sweat in the shirt. There was blood in the shirt.

It's Colchester's cup final.

It's my job not always to put square pegs in square holes but sometimes to put the odd square peg in a round hole.

The way they questioned my decisions was absolutely disgraceful.

I've got to try and educate not only the players but the Derby fans and the board of directors that...

You have to be horrible when you haven't got the ball.

We used the home advantage to our advantage.