The players can associate playing for England with enjoyment, fun, and not being under siege and feeling everything is against them. There's an energy and a connection back. That's important in the short, mid, and long term as well.
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Gareth Southgate
Profession:
Athlete
Born:
September 3, 1970
Nationality:
English
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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.
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Young players will suffer at times and have days when they can't cope or adjust.
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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.
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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.
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You have to cope with expectation if you want to play for England.
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I'm no David Beckham.
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I want my players to enjoy playing football and not be scarred by the experiences.
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Every time a young player comes in, he is excited and wants to prove himself, but also in football, the other players want to prove themselves to any new player that comes in, so that competition is the only way to stimulate performance.
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Good teams score late goals.
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I'm determined to give everything I have to give the country a team that they're proud of and one that they're going to enjoy watching play and develop.
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I've often said it's not just the level of your opponent: it's can you handle wearing the shirt and playing for England?
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Sometimes it's not always a good decision to play if people's energy isn't quite there.
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Good decisions are not necessarily playing it short every time you get the ball. The best teams can play longer or have a threat behind or play through or around. They adapt.
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I have been in sport in different areas for long enough to know what my life is day to day.
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Always, as a player, you are questioned and challenged about the next step. That's what drives the very best: they want to continually win.
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I am extremely proud to be appointed England manager. However, I am also conscious getting the job is one thing; now I want to do the job successfully.
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Sometimes you have to make decisions for the bigger picture.
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My job is to allow people to dream. Make the impossible seem possible.
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Results are a consequence of doing things well and having high standards, improving the detail of how we play.
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First and foremost, I love the job I'm in. I'm proud to be England manager.
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I'm sure at some point in my life, I'll want to go back to club football because people will say, 'Oh well, he did OK as an international manager, but he didn't work as a club manager.'
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A lot of teams who go on to win trophies lose in quarter-finals or semi-finals first.
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Always, as a coach, you have to be thinking not to flood the players with information. You have to think what's key for the player, for that team, and how do we deliver it in a way that it might stick and have an effect.
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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.
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You have to be savvy. You have to be tactically aware, because that's what makes the difference in the big matches.
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I was probably scarred by getting the sack at Middlesbrough.
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Harry Maguire's potential is huge.
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It's important to recognise every player is different in their own characteristics, personality, and what they respond to.
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Unless you're at a club long enough that can develop a philosophy of playing and recruiting players that fit that way of playing, then you have got to be adaptable.
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We have to make the players who haven't played matches feel valued.
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When I think back to what my dreams were as a kid, the only one I had was to play for England.
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In the end, success in a shoot-out is being able to perform a particular skill under pressure.
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I didn't like it as a player when I felt a coach was fudging the reasons for leaving me out. As a player, I wanted to know where I was lacking in my game and where I could improve in order to get back in the team.
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Whenever you name a team and whenever you pick a squad, that is when you have to make the most difficult calls. To tell a player, 'I'm not selecting you, and these are the reasons why...' it's tough.
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We always have to believe in what is possible in life and not be hindered by history or expectations.
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It was very painful to be so close to a World Cup final.
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In England, we've spent a bit of time being lost as to what our modern identity is.
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Ultimately, playing at international level, at all age groups, is good for a player's development, and that is good for clubs, too.
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In a team, you need players who are technically good and can perform under pressure.
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I was always the captain of every club I played for, so I would expect to be somebody who put themselves forward.
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I played international football for England, and in many games, we were technically inferior to the opposition.
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I guess, at a club, you feel supported. Sometimes, with the national team, it hasn't always felt that way.
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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.
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I'm very conscious I've got a lot of faults, the same as everyone, and I have done plenty of things wrong.
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When you become England manager, the change in profile and interest in what you're doing is on another level.
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I nearly missed the births of both of my children, and both were around international weeks.
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If you are not constantly improving and learning, then you are going to be stuck and not progress.
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If Brexit happens, there will have to be change - whether people want it or not - around work permits. It won't be freedom of movement for European players, so that landscape will change.
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