Quotes from Emma Hayes

Get rid of the Continental Cup. Get rid of it, make more league fixtures.

I hope I'm a role model for female coaches who are coming through.

Scores of little girls are going to run into school the following day and say, 'Did you see Fran Kirby last night?' That for me is as important as winning the game.

People are getting used to women's football on their screens, so as long as the quality of the product is high, we'll draw fans to the sport.

I am excited for Chelsea's future. Our owner is a big fan of women's football and he's always asking me what he can do to help.

Beating Reading's not a shoo-in. They're a good team.

When people say: 'What's your biggest achievement?' Giving birth. Forget the rest of it.

I just want to win. I love winning. It does not bore me.

Winning breeds more winning, that's what I've learnt. Getting on a roll is important.

Would I love to go and get out of here and have a couple of months preparing, I don't know, anywhere in sunshine? Yes. But I think while I'm under employment with Chelsea, I think to talk about another job, even if it was short-term, and I haven't been asked, I think it is so disrespectful.

I was always the minibus driver. I was always the one carrying the balls and the cones.

It was so bizarre. I've never accepted a job as quickly as I accepted the Chelsea one. I said yes, I'll do it, I didn't even ask about the money. I just thought: this is my calling.

I empathize with players. In our culture it is all about strategies and interventions to help the individual based on their individual needs. It is not just about supplements or putting painkillers in your mouth. You have to educate yourself about that.

It came as a great surprise to receive an MBE and it is a true honor for me and my family.

I don't know how long I will be coaching for but I don't expect I will go on from Chelsea, Chelsea is my absolute home.

I knew I had an unhealthy child, mainly after about the 20th week, so I knew I was battling against it. I did that privately because I think it's important that the team don't deal with that burden - that's my responsibility.

I never felt bright enough. I never felt confident. I felt that kid coming out of the council estate, like I was never good enough.

I am manager at Chelsea. I manage and represent elite and world class players and this for me is an amazing job I've spent nine years cultivating all my energy into. I'm not looking for another job.

I'll never forget, Jill Ellis, the U.S. national team coach, texted me and said: 'Welcome to the coaching fraternity, you haven't coached unless you've been fired.' It was the most powerful thing anyone could have told me. Of course it hurt like hell, but it was an important learning curve.

We have to be even more conscious of the things we do on a day-to-day basis and take into consideration the feelings and sensibilities of others.

I'm so proud of myself. I got to this level through my hard work, my determination and I'm fortunate enough to be working for a football club that I adore, that have given me license to do this and I work with a set of players that were always in control, even when I didn't feel like I was!

Football is for everyone. It's not for the privileged, it's not for the few, it's not for the elite.

I am certain Chelsea are world leaders at a team level at what we do. For us it is part of our fabric. It is one of the many tenants that we factor into what helps towards our players becoming successful athletes and a successful team.

I had a dream to become Glen Hoddle but never a female equivalent.