Quotes from Frank de Boer

Coaching in Major League Soccer and living in Atlanta has been a wonderful experience and a welcome new challenge.

If you play in Holland, you aren't recognized as a very good player.

If there are watching, for the World Cup final, 500 million people or something like that, and 100 million for a women's final, that's a difference. So it's not the same.

I wanted to show the world who Frank De Boer was because I missed 1996 and then in 1994 I played the World Cup in USA and I played in 1992 in the European Cup and I didn't show really the Frank De Boer for the whole world and I was really focused and eager to show myself.

Missing the last European Championship in 2016 and the World Cup 2018 has created a gap. That's a shame.

Serie A has improved a lot in the last couple of years. The football played here is very modern now.

I am firmly convinced that you have to create a fantastic atmosphere during a tournament.

I talk with every player individually and as a team.

It is always sad when a player has to drop out injured.

These five-and-a-half seasons I was working with Ajax as the head coach, and four-and-a-half as the trainer of the academy, it cost me less energy than the eight months of Inter and Crystal Palace.

Against big clubs with fantastic players sometimes you will be pulled back, but still you have to be in the kind of shape where you can transition, be dangerous, or get the ball.

At Inter, we spent so much time dealing with politics, with agents. That took up 50 percent of my time, when it should have been 10 percent.

Hopefully we will see a lot of women doing sport and especially soccer, because I love soccer.

I will always support not only women who do soccer, but do youth sports.

It was complicated in Italy - not just for the language, but also for the way I transmitted my messages and my ideas.

Messi will be the best in the world for many more years. Not just because of his goals - he also has made many assists over the last couple of years. A complete player.

It's a little luck and a little how you are able to go physically and mentally for all 90 minutes. They say that is typical German soccer. Maybe now it is typically Dutch.

This is typical Mourinho. Rashford is the biggest talent you have in England. He needs games. He should be playing every week. Instead, he buys Lukaku, he buys Sanchez.

This Dutch national team is a team of friends, guys who work for each other and are good for each other. I think it's nice to see.

I would not leave Ajax for nothing. But Spurs are a club that I feel good about. They play good football.

You can be nervous when the referee starts the game but you must get rid of all the nerves and enjoy a great stadium and great pitch.

Ninety percent has to come from yourself, your inner-energy, motivation to get the most out of yourself.

Every league starts with homegrown players.

Normally, Celtic dominate in their own league but it's difficult to get good results in Europe.