Quotes from 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; they'll paint a picture before they've met them.

I've watched parents sometimes on the touchlines at youth games, and they are screaming and shouting, which is not the way to go.

Ability-wise, when you see the best of Aaron Ramsey... at his best, is he good enough for Barcelona? Yes he is, at his best.

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

I get the Swansea-Cardiff thing: I was a Swansea player; I loved playing against Cardiff. But when I played for Wales and played with Jason Perry or Nathan Blake, I never saw them as blue and white and me as black and white.

My next job after Wales, whenever that is, will be somewhere abroad.

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

My dad was Dublin born and bred - a Dublin boy - but he always pushed me to play for what was Wales Under-15s in my day.

Every time I manage Wales and you win, the feeling is better than I've ever had as a club manager.

Wales was a great pleasure. It's the biggest honor I've ever had, to lead my country.

When you are being bullied a long way from home, when you face that challenge, that is where you find out a lot about yourself.

Robbie James, who was a real good friend of mine, died on the pitch at 40.

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 carried away. And when they don't, you stay positive.

Football can change really quickly; you really are king for a day. Once you get caught up with things and think you've arrived... you've never arrived in football.

I never played in a European Championship. I wasn't good enough.

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

You have to do a lot of planning, certainly in football. We watch the opposition three or four times before we play them.

When you have players like Aaron Ramsey, Gareth Bale, and Joe Allen, you've got to play football.

Being a manager is the closest buzz I'll ever get to playing. For every low, you get a high, and that becomes an addiction and a feeling you are always chasing.

Every job I've taken, I like to bring in some new faces.

It's not just about talent. It's about having players with good mentality.

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

I thought the first Welsh team I played in was the golden generation, with Neville Southall, Mark Hughes, Ian Rush, Dean Saunders, Gary Speed, and Ryan Giggs.

When I was playing, I always preferred to be meeting a side like the Faroe Isles or San Marino early doors. Do things right in those games, and you knew you would get six points on the board, at least be up and running and challenging in the group.