Quotes from Chris Coleman

I think everybody is under the impression that everyone wants to work in the Premier League. I want to work at the top level like everyone else, but it doesn't mean that's the Premier League.

Champions League football in the Premier League - you're talking about the top, big, massive clubs, and it's not something I think I'd get linked with.

It doesn't help me to burn bridges, but I'm not going to sit back and be given blame when I don't deserve it.

I have been relegated as a player, and I have suffered the feeling of failure. It is awful, and when you are part of an international outfit that gets so close, and you don't do it, it is not a good feeling. I don't want that again. I want to be part of a team that does something no one else has done.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

You can't manufacture team spirit; it doesn't come from having a good night out and a laugh.

Sometimes in football, the best team does not necessarily win; it's the team that plays best on the day that prevails.

The biggest word in football, and it's a dirty word - no one likes to use it - is accountability.

Everybody fails.

I've had more failures than I've had success, but I'm not afraid to fail.

Even when I was growing up as a young boy, when I was playing schoolboy football, there were other guys who were as good as I was, maybe some even better technically. But I was prepared to stick to what was going to make me become a professional football player when I left school, and that was a lot of sacrifice and because my attitude was right.

I think, a lot of guys who want to be professional football players, they see the Premiership players, and they see the finished article, but there's a lot of hard work that's gone into their careers for them to get there. There's a lot of sacrifice, and I think people tend to forget that.

If you ask any manager after a defeat, you want to be as far away from it as you can.

I shared a dressing room with Alan Shearer. I used to watch the opposition looking at him, and they'd be thinking they need to score more than one because Shearer is going to score, and he scores every game. That psychological advantage is fantastic.

For Ashley Williams, he doesn't score many, but what a leader.

Since I was five or six years old, I just wanted to be a professional football player. I wanted to play against the best players. I wanted to play in big stadiums in front of big crowds, and I was desperate to play for my country one day, and thankfully, I was lucky enough that happened.

I have a lot of time and respect for Roy Hodgson; he's a very good manager.

He was a huge football man - he loved football. He was a good parent, a great father, and brilliant with me.

I'm never content, and I don't know if that's a curse or a good thing.

People talk about great motivators, but I think motivation has to come from within the individual first, because if you haven't got that inner strength yourself, and belief and you want to do well, it doesn't matter what anybody else says. You have to have that; it has to be inbuilt.

Where do you go from Real Madrid that's better? There's one or two clubs up there but none better.

When you're playing for Real Madrid, even when you're playing well, you're under scrutiny.

If you are a club manager and things are going well, it's a great feeling because you've got the whole city behind you. If you're manager of your country and it's going well - and you've got a whole nation proud of you - I can't describe how that feels.

I think, from our point of view, my opinion is that La Liga, the tempo and physicality is completely different to the Premier League. Technically, some of the teams there are absolutely tip top.