Emma Hayes

“I just hope we do start to see more females coaching teams like you see across American sports.”

“I've shown the players geese videos. I've shown them why geese fly in V formation, what everybody's role is, how geese support each other and, most importantly, why you fly further together. That's the bottom line. Geese wouldn't be able to migrate to the sun without all traveling together. It's the same for us.”

“Understanding the menstrual cycle is just one part of the holistic understanding you need to have of your footballers in order to help them prepare.”

“I think the rest of Europe fear our country and our clubs and they're quite right to do so.”

“I was always the minibus driver. I was always the one carrying the balls and the cones.”

“I'm like any other football manager in that respect, we all live in fear of losing our job.”

“There should be creches for people that work in football clubs. We put long hours in and we don't get to see our children a lot and that's something that I think could be considered within the game.”

“Meditation is important - yoga, walking.”

“As coaches we want everything.”

“It was so bizarre. I've never accepted a job as quickly as I accepted the Chelsea one. I said yes, I'll do it, I didn't even ask about the money. I just thought: this is my calling.”

“I don't have a complacent dressing room, thank goodness.”

“I had a dream to become Glen Hoddle but never a female equivalent.”

“I hope and expect there are female coaches out there who are saying they want to do what I do, and if I can play a part in that and when I step away from the game can say 'I was the first,' then I'm proud of that too.”

“When you say 'the menopause', people understand; when you say 'periods' to someone, even if they don't understand the mechanisms of it, they will understand. But if you say to someone 'I have endometriosis,' they haven't got a clue what it is. There is such a lack of tying it together with what is normal versus what is not normal with a period.”

“I love Brian Clough. I grew up in a household that loved him. To go to his home as a manager will be a really special moment for me.”

“My routine is not being at home with a child all day, mine is with a football team.”

“When I was 17 I did a B License and had no opportunities in the U.K. so I opted to go abroad and work in America for 10 years where the understanding of female coaches was very different to England.”

“Every time I smacked my right foot to the ground I couldn't absorb shock. So no matter what, I've thought about this a lot, it doesn't matter what my life in football would have looked like, it was so traumatic for me that I just couldn't play the game I loved. And I didn't know how to handle that as a teenager.”

“I knew I had an unhealthy child, mainly after about the 20th week, so I knew I was battling against it. I did that privately because I think it's important that the team don't deal with that burden - that's my responsibility.”

“I just don't know why anyone would ever think that women's football is a step down and that coaching World Cup champions, winners, players that have represented their countries in the Olympics or European championships is a step down from anything.”