Gareth Southgate

Good teams score late goals.

— Gareth Southgate

I'm no David Beckham.

— Gareth Southgate

Harry Maguire's potential is huge.

— Gareth Southgate

Write your own stories.

— Gareth Southgate

I was probably scarred by getting the sack at Middlesbrough.

— Gareth Southgate

If you keep always doing what you've always done, you get the same results.

— 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

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

— Gareth Southgate

In England, we've spent a bit of time being lost as to what our modern identity is.

— Gareth Southgate

Sometimes you have to make decisions for the bigger picture.

— Gareth Southgate

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

— Gareth Southgate

I'm slightly concerned, because as a centre-half who took a lot of knocks to the head I'm not normally synonymous with being…

— Gareth Southgate

I expect all the players, even the younger ones, to show leadership in their own way.

— Gareth Southgate

My priority is, do my players feel supported from within their dressing room by their own federation?

— Gareth Southgate

You always have to be conscious of how your words can provide motivation to the opposition.

— Gareth Southgate

If you are not constantly improving and learning, then you are going to be stuck and not progress.

— Gareth Southgate

I think it's always difficult to go against people with big match experience in finals.

— Gareth Southgate

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

— 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

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

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

I didn't like it as a player when I felt a coach was fudging the reasons for leaving me out. As a…

— 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

Whenever you name a team and whenever you pick a squad, that is when you have to make the most difficult calls.…

— Gareth Southgate

My kids don't think, for one minute, about where people are born, what language they speak, what colour they are. There's an…

— Gareth Southgate

If Brexit happens, there will have to be change - whether people want it or not - around work permits. It won't…

— Gareth Southgate

In every position on the field, there's really strong competition.

— Gareth Southgate

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

— Gareth Southgate

More expectation is a healthy thing and something we have to embrace.

— Gareth Southgate

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

— Gareth Southgate

My job is to allow people to dream. Make the impossible seem possible.

— Gareth Southgate

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

— Gareth Southgate

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

— 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

You're always loath to take a player off of his ability.

— Gareth Southgate

I am not sure I will ever wear a waistcoat again, frankly!

— Gareth Southgate

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

— Gareth Southgate