In a team, you need players who are technically good and can perform under pressure.

I was always the captain of every club I played for, so I would expect to be somebody who put themselves forward.

I played international football for England, and in many games, we were technically inferior to the opposition.

I guess, at a club, you feel supported. Sometimes, with the national team, it hasn't always felt that way.

It's impossible to please everybody all of the time, but you just have to believe that you're making decisions for the right reasons.

In life, there are really complex, difficult jobs, and some are more complicated and difficult than others. But when you look around at inventions, or records that have been broken, you have to tell yourself that anything is possible.

I'm very conscious I've got a lot of faults, the same as everyone, and I have done plenty of things wrong.

When you become England manager, the change in profile and interest in what you're doing is on another level.

You don't want to be too proud, to get carried away, but if people give you praise, you don't want to throw it back.

I nearly missed the births of both of my children, and both were around international weeks.

As part of their recovery after a match, you want players to stay in the cold water for as long as they can, but naturally, they want to get out. You might have races or games in order to keep them engaged.

Sometimes you have to make decisions for the bigger picture.

It's an incredible privilege to be the England manager, but when you sit and think about the people who have got to this point before, people I hugely respect and admire... it's difficult to put it into perspective, really.

Good teams, whatever the circumstances or the atmosphere or the pitch, find a way of playing.

If you keep always doing what you've always done, you get the same results.

My kids don't think, for one minute, about where people are born, what language they speak, what colour they are. There's an innocence about young people that is only influenced by older people.

I'm not the authority on the subject. I'm a middle-aged white guy speaking about racism. I'm just finding it a really difficult subject to broach.

When something goes wrong in your life, it doesn't finish you, and you should become braver, knowing that you've got to go for things in life and don't regret because you didn't try to be as good as you might be.

At the World Cup, it's the very top level. It's going to be tougher.

That's one thing that's been aimed at me since I was 17: a lack of pace.

If you go into a shopping centre, there are phones and cameras everywhere, and if you're doing the wrong thing, ultimately you're going to get found out. So it's important you're living your life right, and that's hard for a young player.

The pressures on younger players now are greater. You've just got to be on your toes all the time with social media and stuff. Now you just go to fill your car up, and there will be somebody wanting to film you trying to do something silly like that.

For a young player, it's important to have people around you other than yourself. You're immature as an 18- or 19-year-old.

Everton Football Club is more important than the individual.