Gareth Southgate Quotes

Each game we approach like a final. Today it was the opening game at home, we won and showed outstanding football qualities. We will be preparing for the next game the same way.

Sometimes when you're around a side you don't realise how good they are until you go away from home and they are a very fine team.

It's obviously important for the English national team if you have a lot of players playing big matches. You are more mature and know how to cope.

I can speak in cliches and say how much the Israel national team means to us, but we have to prove that on the pitch.

There is a great responsibility on the team to perform well, because our supporters and the whole of the country are expecting us to do just that.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

As long as we continue to execute, everything will work out for everybody at GoPro.

To me, as long as I can play and I'm not hurting the team, I'm playing.

Look at how a caretaker has worked for the England rugby team in the Six Nations - they've done fantastically. Everyone's got an edge. No one's sure of a place, and everyone has an incentive. So I'd back the FA if they decided not to go for a full-time manager yet.

I don't think it's correct to blame the captain. He at least tries to keep all together so that the team plays well, plays positive cricket, and wins the match for the country, and not think about only winning and earning a name for himself.

For me pressure is positive. The players need to know they need to deliver results because we have massive support but we also need time because Rome was not built in a day.

All the big clubs set their goals. We have to do that because it is necessary to explain to the fans. But this does not mean I am thinking only of the final results. The work you are doing every day with the team is often more important.

I always like to have the best players in my team.

I never played for records. If I had played for records, then I would have had many more runs against my name. If, by your performance, the team wins, then that is what is most gratifying.

I see myself as being a long-term England player - I am 100 percent focused here to try and get into that team.

I've been satisfied with everything since I arrived at Barca, and I'm pleased with the players' attitude.

Pakistan is a very emotional, cricket-loving nation and what Pakistan need is a street-fighter-type in charge of the team.

In Europe, being fast, being strong, playing only with your quality, you are going to struggle against teams that prepare.

Pakistan always play well in England.

Any football club that is any good is down to the manager more than anything else.

Winning covers a multitude of sins. If you play bad and you still win, everyone says that's the sign of a good ballclub. But when you play bad and you lose, all of a sudden you have problems and everyone wants to know why.

We didn't lose a game at home for two years. What are we missing? We have the product on the field. We're exciting.

To me, it doesn't matter who's out there: NBA basketball is great - if teams are putting out their best players and they're competing to win.

Being called up to the national team is about going with them, playing the best you possibly can, and trying to win. That's how I understand it.

Playing for the national team, you are aware that a whole country wants you to succeed, but you mustn't get side-tracked.