Chris Coleman

Working abroad made me better.

— Chris Coleman

I've got a strong relationship with Kit Symons.

— Chris Coleman

It's nice to be in an environment where you feel wanted.

— Chris Coleman

I have played international football myself.

— Chris Coleman

At international level, I've only ever wanted Wales.

— Chris Coleman

I'm a Welshman through and through.

— Chris Coleman

It's not so nice when you don't feel wanted.

— Chris Coleman

I know Roy Hodgson very well; he rarely changes tactically.

— Chris Coleman

There's not many Premier League clubs as big as Sunderland, with their fanbase and stadium and facilities.

— Chris Coleman

Sometimes in football, the best team does not necessarily win; it's the team that plays best on the day that prevails.

— Chris Coleman

I surround myself, not with yes men, but people who have their own ideas and are on board with with I want…

— Chris Coleman

If you ask any manager after a defeat, you want to be as far away from it as you can.

— Chris Coleman

“Life is full of surprises and exciting moments and sometimes we simply overlook them. We are so busy doing things.”

— Chris Coleman

I'm a believer that you're as good as your best game because that's the level that you can get to.

— Chris Coleman

You take someone like Gareth Bale out of your team, and you are going to miss that.

— Chris Coleman

When you're playing for Real Madrid, even when you're playing well, you're under scrutiny.

— Chris Coleman

I think average players are able to play well now and again, or they'll play very, very well. Good players or great…

— Chris Coleman

When you talk about professional footballers, rightly or wrongly, people often already have an idea in their head about what they're like;…

— Chris Coleman

With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well…

— Chris Coleman

Football can change really quickly; you really are king for a day. Once you get caught up with things and think you've…

— Chris Coleman

For me, the training has to be a mixture of hard work - it has to have a good structure, a good…

— Chris Coleman

I've been in football a long time and one thing you don't do is when things are going well, you don't get…

— Chris Coleman

I think, from our point of view, my opinion is that La Liga, the tempo and physicality is completely different to the…

— Chris Coleman

As long as my guys are out there and doing what I'm asking, and they're giving their best, I don't think anybody…

— Chris Coleman

I shared a dressing room with Alan Shearer. I used to watch the opposition looking at him, and they'd be thinking they…

— Chris Coleman

When you are in an international camp, you are together for 10 days. You eat three times a day together. You spend…

— Chris Coleman

Concentration and focus - they are very important, just as important as in anything, I suppose, if you're going to succeed. I've…

— Chris Coleman

People talk about great motivators, but I think motivation has to come from within the individual first, because if you haven't got…

— Chris Coleman

I think, a lot of guys who want to be professional football players, they see the Premiership players, and they see the…

— Chris Coleman

Of course training is very important, but resting is just as important. You have to get your recuperation, and I think all…

— Chris Coleman

If you are a club manager and things are going well, it's a great feeling because you've got the whole city behind…

— Chris Coleman

Even when I was growing up as a young boy, when I was playing schoolboy football, there were other guys who were…

— Chris Coleman

I won't tolerate players not giving everything they've got.

— Chris Coleman

Players hold a lot of their emotions in.

— Chris Coleman

I don't actually think about going down in history.

— Chris Coleman

Don't be afraid to have dreams.

— Chris Coleman

The dressing room is not the place where you show emotion.

— Chris Coleman

I never played in a World Cup. I wasn't good enough.

— Chris Coleman

Alex McLeish will have had kittens - literally.

— Chris Coleman

When I was at Swansea, I lost Alan Davies, who was only 30.

— Chris Coleman