We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

At times they don't like you to kick them and they feel you're not allowed to kick them.

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.

I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.

I don't know what I believe in. I try not to think about it. I don't want to think about it.

I don't watch a lot of TV, to be honest. With three kids I have my hands full.

I have had interviews and got close to taking a managerial job. I would consider going back into football.

I hope I never have to face that feeling of missing and sending my country or team out of a competition.

I miss walking out of the tunnel, the 90 minutes and the adrenalin rush that I'll never, ever replace.

I still get butterflies when England are playing.

I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.

It doesn't matter that I didn't win a trophy because I did it my way and I lived the dream.

Management interests me at some stage in my life, I have always said that. When that will be I really couldn't tell you.

Regrets? None at all.

Some players are criticised for having no loyalty. Well, I wanted to go back home and play for the club I supported. I don't think that's a crime.

Sometimes going in for a hard tackle generates a louder cheer than a great pass.

Somewhere along the line you've got to do your apprenticeship. But I'd want half a chance of being successful at it.

The fans have what they want. They want entertainment, they want passion and they want commitment.

The managers are getting paid very well by their respective clubs to do a job for their clubs not the country they are working in.

There are not many times when I get nervous, but I do a little bit with penalties.

When I was a young boy I wanted to play for Newcastle United, I wanted to wear the number nine shirt and I wanted to score goals at St James' Park. I've lived my dream and I realise how lucky I've been to have done that.

Whenever I have any spare time I have a game of golf.

You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different.

Defeat is not worth thinking about.

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.

Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.

If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.

Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.

Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what's happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We're no longer a respected country.

I think it is important to maintain a sense of self and confidence, not letting either falter for the sake of a particular part or project, no matter how great it might be.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The instructor brought complex concepts down to earth. I will miss coming here every week.

Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love.