CHRIS COLEMAN

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

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

It's not so nice when you don't feel wanted.

I know Roy Hodgson very well; he rarely changes tactically.

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

There are a lot of good managers out of work because there are only so many jobs out there, and if you get it wrong two jobs running, it's hard to get a third one. That's generally the rule.

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.

It's difficult when you're young and you're not playing for your club.

You take someone like Gareth Bale out of your team, and you are going to miss that.

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

To manage another country? No, I wouldn't. That's not something I would consider.

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

Football is whatever you want to play.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Working abroad made me better.

My best mates are my mates from school, and we have always stayed close.

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.

I've got the opportunity to manage a big football club, a seriously big football club, and I wasn't going to turn that down.

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 won't tolerate players not giving everything they've got.

Concentration and focus - they are very important, just as important as in anything, I suppose, if you're going to succeed. I've seen a lot of good players on the training ground, but when it comes to the game, they can't keep the same levels up on a Saturday.