A biography for Gareth Southgatehasn’t been written yet.
“I'm very conscious I've got a lot of faults, the same as everyone, and I have done plenty of things wrong.”
“I was always the captain of every club I played for, so I would expect to be somebody who put themselves forward.”
“Good decisions are not necessarily playing it short every time you get the ball. The best teams can play longer or have a threat behind or play through or around. They adapt.”
“We always have to believe in what is possible in life and not be hindered by history or expectations.”
“Harry Maguire's potential is huge.”
“My kids don't think, for one minute, about where people are born, what language they speak, what colour they are. There's an innocence about young people that is only influenced by older people.”
“I am not sure I will ever wear a waistcoat again, frankly!”
“Looking at the team sheets, you're never quite sure one weekend to the next who's going to be in a team and who isn't.”
“Always, as a coach, you have to be thinking not to flood the players with information. You have to think what's key for the player, for that team, and how do we deliver it in a way that it might stick and have an effect.”
“When you become England manager, the change in profile and interest in what you're doing is on another level.”
“My sole focus is producing the best team possible for England.”
“Nobody can tell me that if players are good enough, they will come through. That is not true. There are plenty of players who are good enough.”
“Good teams score late goals.”
“You always have to be conscious of how your words can provide motivation to the opposition.”
“When I think back to what my dreams were as a kid, the only one I had was to play for England.”
“I don't know how you get in the England squad without getting in the Arsenal team.”
“I have been in sport in different areas for long enough to know what my life is day to day.”
“When something goes wrong in your life, it doesn't finish you, and you should become braver, knowing that you've got to go for things in life and don't regret because you didn't try to be as good as you might be.”
“In life, there are really complex, difficult jobs, and some are more complicated and difficult than others. But when you look around at inventions, or records that have been broken, you have to tell yourself that anything is possible.”
“When you're a leader and a manager, you have to make decisions which are right for your group to achieve the primary objective. Sometimes those decisions will be criticised.”