Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate

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.

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate

No England international is a practice match. Every time you wear this shirt, it is of importance for you, the country, and the supporters.

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate

I have been in sport in different areas for long enough to know what my life is day to day.

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate

You have to be savvy. You have to be tactically aware, because that's what makes the difference in the big matches.

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate

Sometimes it's not always a good decision to play if people's energy isn't quite there.

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate

In every position on the field, there's really strong competition.

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate

We have to make the players who haven't played matches feel valued.

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate

Write your own stories.

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate

Sometimes you have to make decisions for the bigger picture.

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate

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

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate

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.

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate

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.

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate

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

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate

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.

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate

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.

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate

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.

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate

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

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate

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.

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate

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

Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate

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