Gareth Southgate Quotes

Gareth Southgate

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 3, 1970

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

Gareth Southgate

Results are a consequence of doing things well and having high standards, improving the detail of how we play.

Gareth Southgate

If you are not constantly improving and learning, then you are going to be stuck and not progress.

Gareth Southgate

In the end, success in a shoot-out is being able to perform a particular skill under pressure.

Gareth Southgate

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.

Gareth Southgate

If we are gong to be an outstanding team, we need players who are going to step up in the big moments and realise, every time they play for England, they have the chance to be involved in an iconic moment, a historic performance, and that they have that choice every time they go on the field.

Gareth Southgate

We always have to believe in what is possible in life and not be hindered by history or expectations.

Gareth Southgate

I think we have seen evidence that being brave enough to go abroad can lead to a proper opportunity.

Gareth Southgate

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

Gareth Southgate

In any sport, you're at your best when you're playing without thinking too much.

Gareth Southgate

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

Gareth Southgate

It's important to recognise every player is different in their own characteristics, personality, and what they respond to.

Gareth Southgate

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.

Gareth Southgate

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.

Gareth Southgate

My job is to allow people to dream. Make the impossible seem possible.

Gareth Southgate

First and foremost, I love the job I'm in. I'm proud to be England manager.

Gareth Southgate

If we want to be a top team, we can't get to 3-0 and suddenly decide not to play without the ball. We have to play with intelligence right through the game.

Gareth Southgate

Whenever you're in an England shirt, you have an opportunity to make history.

Gareth Southgate

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.

Gareth Southgate

More expectation is a healthy thing and something we have to embrace.

Gareth Southgate