Gareth Southgate Quotes

Playing in a team like Barca, you always feel pressure. The demand is to win everything, but this is good for you as a footballer: it makes you play better.

When you train a massive club or little third division outfit, when you go out to play football in any situation, it is always about winning.

When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering who's performing better, you take your eye off the ball.

Coming to Crystal Palace, I'm really excited to be playing. There's still massive competition here.

I like a little pressure. That's how football goes.

The job is always with you, 24/7. I played over 400 games as a player and the highs aren't as high when you win and when you're a player the low isn't as low when you get beaten. It really spikes and dips as a manager.

Whenever you play football, you will always have something to prove.

When I played for Arsenal, like once per month, you always had this feeling you had to perform.

What really excited me at the end was the challenge of being the best I can be and prolonging my best level and playing against the best players in the world. But now that I don't have the opportunity to play against the best players in the world when it counts, in front of fans, it doesn't excite me as much.

I try to play the best I can every time I play. But there's just some folks that seem to draw a little bit of that extra special out of you.

The bottom line is that it's the NFL, and there's going to be competition wherever you go. That's the way I look at it. I've had competition in high school. I've had competition in college, and that's part of the game. That's part of how you improve as a quarterback.

As a footballer, you always want to test yourself against the best.

I love playing football. So I go out to play football, and I don't really feel pressure. Of course, there are some days when things just don't work out as well as they do on other days, but that doesn't have anything to do with pressure.

The biggest thing for me is just to get out on that field. Just to do that will be incredible.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.

I think as a player there's a sense of urgency every single year that this is the year we're going to have success and do the things we're excited about.

When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

I would say I thrive in a competitive environment.

I know that it is a huge responsibility to be the captain, the No. 10, but I like it. I like the responsibility, the pressure, and I like playing football.

You are always having to prove something in football whether you are flying or not.

I'll play as long as that competitive spirit and drive is there because that's what gets me up in the morning, that feeling of having a batsman drive at you, play and miss, the sort of theatre around that sort of stuff.

This is football, you always have to compete to be able to play. When you're at a big club, it's like that.

It is a normal thing for a young player to want to prove himself in the Premiership.