Eddie Howe

“I think it's difficult for British coaches to get a job at the top clubs and may get harder as time goes by.”

“You hear a lot of players say: 'Well, the manager put the ball down and stuck it in the top corner.'... I'm not one of them.”

“I have a burning desire to achieve and that leads to a high amount of work.”

“We don't overreact whether we win or lose.”

“New ways of playing should be embraced.”

“I think you have to evolve, you have to change.”

“Different games require different things.”

“I respect everyone at Burnley, the owners, the people who gave me the chance to work there, and I really, really enjoyed it, albeit the team was in transition.”

“You can never predict what will happen in the future.”

“It is a great honour to become head coach of a club with the stature and history of Newcastle United.”

“If you go back through the history of football there will be great stories where teams have achieved great things from an owner or a benefactor or whatever you want to call it.”

“Everything I've achieved has been through a lot of practice, a lot of repetition, so nothing has ever come easy.”

“The more foreign managers who come in and do well the tougher it becomes for British guys. The challenge is for us prove we are good enough.”

“The future is the only thing that matters.”

“We are all competing and all trying to do the same thing and I think it is very important we all show respect for each other.”

“I think I am addicted to the game. I think you have to be, with the volume of games you are watching and the amount of interest you have to have. You have to love the game.”

“I want my squad to be confident, ambitious. They have to believe in big things and we have to set targets internally.”

“I don't tend to struggle to sleep.”

“I'm not on Twitter, I wouldn't even know how to access it.”

“Players need to play freely. They need to play without that weight of expectation and to concentrate on their normal game rather than worrying about what's said about them afterwards.”