Phil Brown (footballer)

"That's a lot of hard work gone under the water, under the bridge."

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

"If that's foreign strength or that's English strength, it doesn't matter to me."

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

"If we stand still, we're going backwards. We've got to keep moving forward and appear to be moving forward."

"They know, in that changing room, that the strength is that changing room."

"The way they questioned my decisions was absolutely disgraceful."

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

"I asked for 11 men and I asked for 5 men as substitutes."

"You've got a good manager."

"If I get the good pictures I was getting at the beginning of the season, Lee Holmes will be knocking at the door."

"We're knocking on the door of success."

"They will watch his decision-making process."

"The walking wounded are starting to walk."

"I don't know what Murdo's talking about."

"Inigo limped out of training but it was a precautionary limp out."

"Inigo is, without a shadow of a doubt, a player."

"Stern is a goalscorer but did not score for us in seven games."

"We've got 8 points from 4 games. That's automatic promotion form."

"His Prozone stats are often in the 80s, 90s."

"It was his elbow. He landed on his elbow. I've just had a little joke with Andy. He went on and pulled off the best two headers of the game with an injured shoulder, arm, whatever it was."

"We impacted upon the substitutions."

"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 whole team needs solidifying."

"If one or two do go out, hopefully the players we get in will be better players."

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

"We used the home advantage to our advantage."

"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 fans were asking me "was I watching?". Of course I was watching."

"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."

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

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

"I'm not saying alarm bells are ringing at this moment in time."

"I have spoken to the referee and I spoke to him like a man."

"He will hopefully bring a mentality in both penalty boxes."

"It's Colchester's cup final."

"All the boxes are ticked. The yeses and the positives are coming back from the medical department."

"The fans are starting to get disgruntled with the board, with the players."

"Unfortunately we've come on the end of a loss."

"Nick has thrown his hat into the ring and I've had a long chat with him"

"Dean Marney has also thrown his hat into the ring after Saturday. The more hats there are in the ring, the harder my job is"

"If you score first, you have a 75 per cent chance of not losing the game. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to work out that you have to get off to a good start and score."

"It was a fantastic result and credit has to go to the players. The application they have shown since I got the job has been first class. They've just asked for four or five days off this week, but I've said I want them back in on Tuesday."

"Lee has been with the physio all week and hasn't trained. David Livermore has trained so the shoe is on the other foot there and he has thrown his hat into the ring."

"Those are the pictures you want from pre-season, so although we beat a Premiership side, I can take those away with me."

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

"The lads are on top of the ground at the moment and they look as though they're looking forward to tomorrow."

"Today's draw is another little brick in the wall."

"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."

"When you compare the changing room to last season, there is a massive, massive difference. The changing room now is full of men"