Gareth Southgate Quotes

Gareth Southgate

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 3, 1970

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.

Gareth Southgate

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

Gareth Southgate

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.

Gareth Southgate

Sometimes you have to make decisions for the bigger picture.

Gareth Southgate

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gareth Southgate

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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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 England, we've spent a bit of time being lost as to what our modern identity is.

Gareth Southgate

It was very painful to be so close to a World Cup final.

Gareth Southgate

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.

Gareth Southgate

When I think back to what my dreams were as a kid, the only one I had was to play for England.

Gareth Southgate

A lot of teams who go on to win trophies lose in quarter-finals or semi-finals first.

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