Gareth Southgate Quotes

Gareth Southgate

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 3, 1970

You can never say you've 'made it,' because that's the day you stop progressing and improving.

Gareth Southgate

I'm committed to England, simple as that. I don't need to hedge my bets in keeping doors open or keeping things alive.

Gareth Southgate

My sole focus is producing the best team possible for England.

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

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.

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I manage every player as well as I possibly can, regardless of which club they're from, what their roots are.

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I want my players to enjoy playing football and not be scarred by the experiences.

Gareth Southgate

When you're a leader and a manager, you have to make decisions which are right for your group to achieve the primary objective. Sometimes those decisions will be criticised.

Gareth Southgate

I think it's always difficult to go against people with big match experience in finals.

Gareth Southgate

Looking at the team sheets, you're never quite sure one weekend to the next who's going to be in a team and who isn't.

Gareth Southgate

For me, it is all about the bigger picture and what is right for England. I haven't enjoyed watching us play in all our games, but away in Germany, against Spain and Germany at home, I've enjoyed the performance.

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Very often, you can go into one game and do really well, and then you have to find that level of performance so quickly again.

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We want to win every game of football we go into. I don't know how we would go into a game not wanting to win and not wanting to play well.

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I've got to think through all of those things - competition for places, players who need match minutes, and keeping the unity of the squad.

Gareth Southgate

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

Gareth Southgate

I don't think, when you are involved with England, you can ever write any game or tournament off - that wouldn't be acceptable.

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I expect all the players, even the younger ones, to show leadership in their own way.

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You're always loath to take a player off of his ability.

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