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

I surround myself, not with yes men, but people who have their own ideas and are on board with with I want to do.

Any success I have had has not happened overnight; the journey has never felt like me sitting in the back of a limousine sipping champagne. It has always been more like riding up a hill on a pushbike, and the chain has come off.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I thought the first Welsh team I played in was the golden generation, with Neville Southall, Mark Hughes, Ian Rush, Dean Saunders, Gary Speed, and Ryan Giggs.

I don't like talking past the next game. It's never served me right in the past.

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.

With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done.

For me, the training has to be a mixture of hard work - it has to have a good structure, a good base - but also, I don't want all my players to be like machines.

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.

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

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

You can only ask someone of their best. That's it. If you lose, and you've given your best, that's how it goes.

You have to do a lot of planning, certainly in football. We watch the opposition three or four times before we play them.

Tournament football is unlike anything else. The campaign can be great, but a finals is a different challenge.

Players hold a lot of their emotions in.

The dressing room is not the place where you show emotion.

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.

You work all your life to get the top; you don't want to give that up.

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

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

Don't be afraid to have dreams.

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

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

Everybody fails.

Ability-wise, when you see the best of Aaron Ramsey... at his best, is he good enough for Barcelona? Yes he is, at his best.

I'm a believer that you're as good as your best game because that's the level that you can get to.

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.

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

I'm a Welshman through and through.

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

My next job after Wales, whenever that is, will be somewhere abroad.

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

I'm really happy for Sam Vokes. He doesn't always start, but he always turns up and works so hard.

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

It's nice to be in an environment where you feel wanted.

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

Football is whatever you want to play.

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

Wales was a great pleasure. It's the biggest honor I've ever had, to lead my country.

Football can change really quickly; you really are king for a day. Once you get caught up with things and think you've arrived... you've never arrived in football.

I've known John Toshack a long, long time because I grew up with his son Cameron. If he was English, there is no doubt that he would be mentioned in the same breath as someone like Terry Venables.

I don't spend enough time with my children, but when I am with them, I like to help them with their homework - even though they know more than me!

Being a manager is the closest buzz I'll ever get to playing. For every low, you get a high, and that becomes an addiction and a feeling you are always chasing.

I can remember when I was a 17-year-old at Swansea and Terry Yorath and Tommy Hutchison were in charge.

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