Chris Coleman

If you want to become a professional football player at any level, when you're growing up, you have to make sacrifices, and it's very difficult. It's not easy, but you have to train hard, you have to live right, and you have to rest.

Even when I was growing up as a young boy, when I was playing schoolboy football, there were other guys who were as good as I was, maybe some even better technically. But I was prepared to stick to what was going to make me become a professional football player when I left school, and that was a lot of sacrifice and because my attitude was right.

I've watched parents sometimes on the touchlines at youth games, and they are screaming and shouting, which is not the way to go.

When you talk about professional footballers, rightly or wrongly, people often already have an idea in their head about what they're like; they'll paint a picture before they've met them.

Since I was five or six years old, I just wanted to be a professional football player. I wanted to play against the best players. I wanted to play in big stadiums in front of big crowds, and I was desperate to play for my country one day, and thankfully, I was lucky enough that happened.

You have to do a lot of planning, certainly in football. We watch the opposition three or four times before we play them.

I don't like talking past the next game. It's never served me right in the past.

Every job I've taken, I like to bring in some new faces.

My next job after Wales, whenever that is, will be somewhere abroad.

The dressing room is not the place where you show emotion.

Tournament football is unlike anything else. The campaign can be great, but a finals is a different challenge.

It doesn't help me to burn bridges, but I'm not going to sit back and be given blame when I don't deserve it.