Chris Coleman

“I think, a lot of guys who want to be professional football players, they see the Premiership players, and they see the finished article, but there's a lot of hard work that's gone into their careers for them to get there. There's a lot of sacrifice, and I think people tend to forget that.”

“I won't tolerate players not giving everything they've got.”

“There are a lot of good managers out of work because there are only so many jobs out there, and if you get it wrong two jobs running, it's hard to get a third one. That's generally the rule.”

“Where do you go from Real Madrid that's better? There's one or two clubs up there but none better.”

“My dad was Dublin born and bred - a Dublin boy - but he always pushed me to play for what was Wales Under-15s in my day.”

“Don't be afraid to have dreams.”

“Any success I have had has not happened overnight; the journey has never felt like me sitting in the back of a limousine sipping champagne. It has always been more like riding up a hill on a pushbike, and the chain has come off.”

“I've had more failures than I've had success, but I'm not afraid to fail.”

“You take someone like Gareth Bale out of your team, and you are going to miss that.”

“It's nice to be in an environment where you feel wanted.”

“You work all your life to get the top; you don't want to give that up.”

“That's not always a nice feeling when you've given everything, and it's not enough - it's an empty feeling.”

“I have been relegated as a player, and I have suffered the feeling of failure. It is awful, and when you are part of an international outfit that gets so close, and you don't do it, it is not a good feeling. I don't want that again. I want to be part of a team that does something no one else has done.”

“I think average players are able to play well now and again, or they'll play very, very well. Good players or great players, nine times out of ten, they have good games.”

“Tournament football is unlike anything else. The campaign can be great, but a finals is a different challenge.”

“Even when I was growing up as a young boy, when I was playing schoolboy football, there were other guys who were as good as I was, maybe some even better technically. But I was prepared to stick to what was going to make me become a professional football player when I left school, and that was a lot of sacrifice and because my attitude was right.”

“I thought the first Welsh team I played in was the golden generation, with Neville Southall, Mark Hughes, Ian Rush, Dean Saunders, Gary Speed, and Ryan Giggs.”

“He was a huge football man - he loved football. He was a good parent, a great father, and brilliant with me.”

“Every time I manage Wales and you win, the feeling is better than I've ever had as a club manager.”

“I'm a believer that you're as good as your best game because that's the level that you can get to.”