Roy Hodgson

Talk is talk; action on the field is action on the field.

All of the top managers I have come across during my career and befriend, they suffer as much with the defeats and when things don't go their way late in life as they did early in life.

I think any manager who tells you, 'I am very good at keeping my equilibrium. I'm always calm and reasoned, and results don't affect me particularly. I can take the good with the bad, and I can put the wins and the losses in perspective,' you will find a special person. I've never met one.

People are entitled to say what they feel sometimes.

I enjoyed Wembley like all the managers before me, and I would hope that games would still be played there by the England national team.

Systems win you nothing, and football players win you games.

Often, in a tournament, the players that get injured or suffer a lack of form are the guys at the cutting edge, the guys who make the difference or score the goals.

We believe defending is very much a team job, and we can't just rely on a back four and a goalkeeper.

As far as I'm concerned, if you're only going to call managers who have won a trophy any good, then basically, you have four or five.

Anyone who watches football and watches Tottenham play would have to be an admirer of the way they play football and the way they go about their business.

If the be-all and end-all of your ability is, 'Have you got a trophy to your name,' I find that hard to understand. It's so naive in terms of what the job of being a football coach is all about.

The reality of football rests on that patch of green between 90 and 95 minutes. Whichever team is going to win has to do it on the field of play and by scoring more goals than the opposition.

New faces, maybe perking up the squad and giving you another arrow to your bow - that can be a help.

To be frank, you can't compare the atmosphere and the way people behaved in the Olympic Stadium with the game I watched the day after, the Community Shield.

I wouldn't mind a spotlight also focused on the crowd, because, I think, one of the things that made the Olympic Games for Great Britain was the incredible support within the stadia where the events took place.

It does get hot in England from time to time.

I have been in football a long time, and Wayne Rooney has been in football a long time. He would regard me as someone who is very false if I ever said to him, 'Your place is guaranteed.' He would not expect it, and I would be very upset anyway if anyone asked me to give them a guarantee of a place.

I don't think you sign a four-year contract in the Premier League and then go to China at the age of 26.

The day it becomes impossible for teams like Palace to get results against City, the league might as well just fold up, and we'll do everything on paper.

Most teams - whether they like it or not against Manchester City - you're going to find yourself quite often penned in your own half.

The last thing you want as a striker is the opposing team putting all 10 players behind the ball.

For goal-scorers and centre-forwards, confidence does play a big part.

The important thing is to take each game as it comes.

I have been in football a long time.

You are never quite sure how it will go, and even after a thousand games or so, that tense feeling is still there.

When you focus the spotlight so much on one person, I think it's very, very dangerous.

Luckily, my age doesn't ever come into my thoughts.

Achievements are often more interesting to you when you look back on them.

You're as old as you feel.

It's an achievement I can be happy about - if you call getting old and still being in a job an achievement.

All you can do when you are given a chance to play for England is to go out against whoever that opponent may be and do it very well. And if you do that, you get yourself in the forefront of the manager's mind.

With a national team, you've just got to be even more focused on what's most important because the time you've got with the players is limited.

There might be more meetings and situations where you're required to represent the country in some way that wouldn't necessarily happen to you if you're a club manager, but other than that, I haven't found any differences in my approach between running a club side and a national team.

It's true that if it's always going to be that if you win the World Cup or European Championship, you're a success, and if you don't, you're a failure, then you're bedding yourself for a lack of success because there aren't many coaches who have won those things, and there are thousands who haven't.

I don't think any job is impossible.

The main problem with English players has always been the price.

In an ideal world, the season would end, and the players would have two to three weeks by the beach. You'd have four to five weeks of preparation, and then you'd play the tournament.

Maybe I see things too naively at times.

The one thing we have to remember about Fernando Torres is that he's a human being who has come in for an enormous amount of criticism, not least during the World Cup from people in Spain and around the world.

As far as I know, Fulham were never for sale during my time there. Mohamed Al Fayed never wanted to sell Fulham.

All managers have someone they lean on and take advice from.

I have worked long and hard to reach the level I have reached.

I don't think there are many jobs that would have tempted me away from Fulham, to be perfectly honest.

I am both proud and excited at the prospect of working as the Liverpool manager.

It's very hard to be happy when you've lost.

I've got to be honest with you: I don't regard 29 as old.

I don't have any intention to resign.

I don't like talking about not getting what you deserve, because that has no part to play in football. You get what you get.

It hasn't always been a Premier League ride for Crystal Palace supporters. They're there to support us through the hard times.

There is a belief that getting any particular job may depend on who has just had five consecutive victories. If that's the way it is, I've got a healthy attitude.