Football Quotes by Gareth Southgate

Good teams score late goals.

— Gareth Southgate

Harry Maguire's potential is huge.

— Gareth Southgate

My players' feeling is the most important thing for me.

— Gareth Southgate

I was probably scarred by getting the sack at Middlesbrough.

— Gareth Southgate

I manage every player as well as I possibly can, regardless of which club they're from, what their roots are.

— Gareth Southgate

The world always changes, and teams go through evolutions.

— Gareth Southgate

My sole focus is producing the best team possible for England.

— Gareth Southgate

Good teams, whatever the circumstances or the atmosphere or the pitch, find a way of playing.

— Gareth Southgate

I don't know how you get in the England squad without getting in the Arsenal team.

— Gareth Southgate

Our country has been through some difficult moments recently in terms of its unity. But sport can unite.

— Gareth Southgate

In any sport, you're at your best when you're playing without thinking too much.

— Gareth Southgate

I'm sure at some point in my life, I'll want to go back to club football because people will say, 'Oh well,…

— Gareth Southgate

It's important to recognise every player is different in their own characteristics, personality, and what they respond to.

— Gareth Southgate

I am extremely proud to be appointed England manager. However, I am also conscious getting the job is one thing; now I…

— Gareth Southgate

Always, as a coach, you have to be thinking not to flood the players with information. You have to think what's key…

— Gareth Southgate

Very often, you can go into one game and do really well, and then you have to find that level of performance…

— Gareth Southgate

I've often said it's not just the level of your opponent: it's can you handle wearing the shirt and playing for England?

— Gareth Southgate

Good decisions are not necessarily playing it short every time you get the ball. The best teams can play longer or have…

— Gareth Southgate

I don't think the qualifying fixtures excite people. They're games against countries that we are expected to beat, rightly so, and then…

— Gareth Southgate

Every time a young player comes in, he is excited and wants to prove himself, but also in football, the other players…

— Gareth Southgate

If we are gong to be an outstanding team, we need players who are going to step up in the big moments…

— Gareth Southgate

The players can associate playing for England with enjoyment, fun, and not being under siege and feeling everything is against them. There's…

— Gareth Southgate

I played international football for England, and in many games, we were technically inferior to the opposition.

— Gareth Southgate

You have to cope with expectation if you want to play for England.

— Gareth Southgate

Young players will suffer at times and have days when they can't cope or adjust.

— Gareth Southgate

I want my players to enjoy playing football and not be scarred by the experiences.

— Gareth Southgate

You want all players to be free of overthinking. That's when they're in a good place and a good flow.

— Gareth Southgate

It was very painful to be so close to a World Cup final.

— Gareth Southgate

I guess, at a club, you feel supported. Sometimes, with the national team, it hasn't always felt that way.

— Gareth Southgate

Whenever you're in an England shirt, you have an opportunity to make history.

— Gareth Southgate

We have to make the players who haven't played matches feel valued.

— Gareth Southgate

A lot of teams who go on to win trophies lose in quarter-finals or semi-finals first.

— Gareth Southgate

In a team, you need players who are technically good and can perform under pressure.

— Gareth Southgate

When I think back to what my dreams were as a kid, the only one I had was to play for England.

— Gareth Southgate

First and foremost, I love the job I'm in. I'm proud to be England manager.

— Gareth Southgate

Sometimes it's not always a good decision to play if people's energy isn't quite there.

— Gareth Southgate

I have been in sport in different areas for long enough to know what my life is day to day.

— Gareth Southgate

You expect the players to fight for their club and fight for their shirt, and when they come together, they are fighting…

— Gareth Southgate

Looking at the team sheets, you're never quite sure one weekend to the next who's going to be in a team and…

— Gareth Southgate

Ultimately, playing at international level, at all age groups, is good for a player's development, and that is good for clubs, too.

— Gareth Southgate