Quotes from Gareth Southgate

I was probably scarred by getting the sack at Middlesbrough.

Good teams score late goals.

If we are encouraging kids to go into academies, then presumably we are selling them the dream that they can play first-team football.

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

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

If Brexit happens, there will have to be change - whether people want it or not - around work permits. It won't be freedom of movement for European players, so that landscape will change.

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

Sometimes you have to make decisions for the bigger picture.

I was always the captain of every club I played for, so I would expect to be somebody who put themselves forward.

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

No England international is a practice match. Every time you wear this shirt, it is of importance for you, the country, and the supporters.

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

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

It's impossible to please everybody all of the time, but you just have to believe that you're making decisions for the right reasons.

I'm very conscious I've got a lot of faults, the same as everyone, and I have done plenty of things wrong.

Nobody can tell me that if players are good enough, they will come through. That is not true. There are plenty of players who are good enough.

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

I think I've made decisions for the right reasons, and I've always communicated them in a respectful way. As a manager, you can't do any more than that. I sit comfortably with that. But I've not enjoyed it.

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 a fashion icon.

Looking at the team sheets, you're never quite sure one weekend to the next who's going to be in a team and who isn't.

We always have to believe in what is possible in life and not be hindered by history or expectations.

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

I nearly missed the births of both of my children, and both were around international weeks.

You don't want to be too proud, to get carried away, but if people give you praise, you don't want to throw it back.