Gareth Southgate Quotes

The coach can only choose 11 players to start. It is a difficult decision.

Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that.

If you are not playing a player, any player, for two, three, four games, then you don't have to give a reason for that. But if it gets to eight or nine games, then you have to explain the situation. What's going on?

I admit I was somewhat concerned when we started to sign so many players - naturally you are going to worry about whether you can retain your place in the side.

The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.

Times change, circumstances change, and that's the reality of playing in the NFL.

When it comes down to it, it's about putting the players on the field that will be the best 11.

Of course I want to play every game, but only 11 can start.

It's up to the coach to decide who is in the best shape to play each match.

Each season and each team is different. It takes on a different personality every year.

That's football, it's our job not just to name the starting XI but during the match as well.

What I'm trying to say is that within the styles, first, there's something clear: the style is given by the players on the roster.

In football, everything can change.

The coach is the one who eventually decides who makes the starting XI.

If the owner goes inside a team and picks one player to play, I can no longer be the manager. Decisions must be made by the manager.

No one is guaranteed their place in the squad.

Every day is different. There's always, as we call it in the NBA, a 'drama,' a team's drama, there's always something.

If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.

Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.

There's always a chance. Anything can happen.

Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug.

It's all a game, with new rules every season.

We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it.

We don't really know the ultimate outcome of our lives. All we can say is, "Fate has brought me thus far. This is where my life is right now, and I can either choose to stay here, or I can make a different turn that will take me somewhere else." I certainly am an advocate of taking a jump off the tallest mountain and just hoping a net appears. More often than not, when you take those leaps of faith, something really incredible happens. It might just take some time. You might take a long, hard journey, but the end of it is usually a great one, I find.

The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.