Quotes from Emma Hayes

Sometimes it can be that a player is available and you can get them next month - wow, that's a bolt of lightning - but it doesn't happen that often, it really does vary.

Women's football in its right is something to celebrate and the quality and the achievement of all the females I represent, it is an insult to them that we talk about women's football being a step down.

Ultimately I think clubs, boards, associations have to do more to provide an equal platform for women to get interviews for jobs.

We've heard so much about introducing the Rooney Rule but I don't hear enough conversations about putting in place things so that females can get interviews.

Meditation is important - yoga, walking.

Every time I smacked my right foot to the ground I couldn't absorb shock. So no matter what, I've thought about this a lot, it doesn't matter what my life in football would have looked like, it was so traumatic for me that I just couldn't play the game I loved. And I didn't know how to handle that as a teenager.

I don't like small things, I like big missions.

I want success for so many people. I couldn't give a crap about myself.

Fran Kirby, Pernille Harder, Beth England, Magda Eriksson, Millie Bright, Maren Mjelde - do you want me to keep going? These are world class players. Women's football is not a step down from anything.

I snuck an hour to watch Bielsa on YouTube, I love that guy. I watched a video of him talking about tactics and formations against Brazil and I absolutely loved it.

As much as trophies matter, leaving something that's built to last is the most important thing to me.

Every team goes into every season aspiring for every trophy.

I've been trusted with the responsibility of developing my players. I take that very seriously. Do I care about them? Yes, immensely. If they are troubled, I'm like a parent.

I have a baby in the house, for any parent it is challenging knowing that you have to find different solutions daily, different routines daily.

It's important for everyone's mental health they go home at Christmas. I don't want to tell any player they can't.

That's a big part of who I am - developing mentality, mindsets.

When I see all the boys in the top jobs across our leagues, I'm like: 'Oh my God, the only woman sitting on top of the pile and I'm only there twice a week!' It's brilliant!

It had always been about America, but now, sorry, they lag behind us. English football's time is coming.

Geese always support each other. When a goose gets injured two birds always accompany it down to the ground. Just as geese do, we must support each other.

Understanding the menstrual cycle is just one part of the holistic understanding you need to have of your footballers in order to help them prepare.

I had no ambition to be a football coach. I wanted to be a spy for MI5 or MI6.

I am an advocate of playing in big stadiums.

Fortunately I have a good support network around me but am I sitting here and saying to myself: 'Should every football club have a creche?' Yes. I think that's the starting point.

The best players aren't going to America, they're staying in Europe and in fact they're coming to England.