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“I know Roy Hodgson very well; he rarely changes tactically.”
“Concentration and focus - they are very important, just as important as in anything, I suppose, if you're going to succeed. I've seen a lot of good players on the training ground, but when it comes to the game, they can't keep the same levels up on a Saturday.”
“It's not just about talent. It's about having players with good mentality.”
“Sometimes in football, the best team does not necessarily win; it's the team that plays best on the day that prevails.”
“I've been in football a long time and one thing you don't do is when things are going well, you don't get carried away. And when they don't, you stay positive.”
“When a special moment happens, I really enjoy it, but I'm over it quite quickly. I remember it, yes, but I want to chase the next one.”
“Northern Ireland, England, Scotland - when we play each other, you don't want to lose to a neighbouring country.”
“Football can change really quickly; you really are king for a day. Once you get caught up with things and think you've arrived... you've never arrived in football.”
“Players hold a lot of their emotions in.”
“Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.”
“If you want to become a professional football player at any level, when you're growing up, you have to make sacrifices, and it's very difficult. It's not easy, but you have to train hard, you have to live right, and you have to rest.”
“I've got a strong relationship with Kit Symons.”
“Champions League football in the Premier League - you're talking about the top, big, massive clubs, and it's not something I think I'd get linked with.”
“I've got the opportunity to manage a big football club, a seriously big football club, and I wasn't going to turn that down.”
“The biggest word in football, and it's a dirty word - no one likes to use it - is accountability.”
“Football is whatever you want to play.”
“The dressing room is not the place where you show emotion.”
“Every job I've taken, I like to bring in some new faces.”
“You have to do a lot of planning, certainly in football. We watch the opposition three or four times before we play them.”
“I think, from our point of view, my opinion is that La Liga, the tempo and physicality is completely different to the Premier League. Technically, some of the teams there are absolutely tip top.”