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“I don't like talking about not getting what you deserve, because that has no part to play in football. You get what you get.”
“What you've got to do in any coaching job, whether it is moving to Sweden as a young man - where being English gave you a slight advantage - or something else, you've got to win the players' respect.”
“I played a lot of tennis when I was young.”
“Systems win you nothing, and football players win you games.”
“It's very flattering that those who have assessed my work over the years think that I have the qualities to be an England manager.”
“I've got to be honest with you: I don't regard 29 as old.”
“As far as I'm concerned, if you're only going to call managers who have won a trophy any good, then basically, you have four or five.”
“A lot of the players who've done so well aren't necessarily the big names: James Tomkins, Luka Milivojevic to name two.”
“I am not only privileged to work for the FA and England: I have enjoyed working for the FA and England.”
“It does get hot in England from time to time.”
“It's very hard to be happy when you've lost.”
“I don't sit around wondering, 'Why am I here? Who made the stars?' I prefer to look at the stars and benefit from them rather than concern myself with how they got there.”
“Luckily, my age doesn't ever come into my thoughts.”
“Hugh Grant is about the only actor I've met who has taken any proper interest in football, being a big Fulham supporter. But he'd be far too good-looking to play me in any film.”
“I didn't realise I had a speech impediment until I came back to England. I spent the whole of my life working abroad, and no-one mentioned it. I came back to England and suddenly realised I had a speech impediment.”
“I wouldn't mind a spotlight also focused on the crowd, because, I think, one of the things that made the Olympic Games for Great Britain was the incredible support within the stadia where the events took place.”
“New faces, maybe perking up the squad and giving you another arrow to your bow - that can be a help.”
“Why shouldn't Harry Kane take corners? If he happens to be the best striker of a ball in the team and gives you the best delivery, why shouldn't he do it?”
“I don't think there are many people out there - except, perhaps, the odd Twitter troll who knows no better - who believes that racially abusing people or threatening people is the right way to go.”
“I can get by quite well in Italian or German, though if the discussion got to a high level, I'd run out of vocabulary. I'm stronger in French and Swedish.”