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

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

Players hold a lot of their emotions in.

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

I think, from our point of view, my opinion is that La Liga, the tempo and physicality is completely different to the Premier League. Technically, some of the teams there are absolutely tip top.

You work all your life to get the top; you don't want to give that up.

Where do you go from Real Madrid that's better? There's one or two clubs up there but none better.

It's difficult when you're young and you're not playing for your club.

Don't be afraid to have dreams.

I've had more failures than I've had success, but I'm not afraid to fail.

Getting the best out of your best players gets the best out of the team.

Everybody fails.

Ability-wise, when you see the best of Aaron Ramsey... at his best, is he good enough for Barcelona? Yes he is, at his best.

I'm a believer that you're as good as your best game because that's the level that you can get to.

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.

You take someone like Gareth Bale out of your team, and you are going to miss that.

I'm a Welshman through and through.

To manage another country? No, I wouldn't. That's not something I would consider.

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

For Ashley Williams, he doesn't score many, but what a leader.

I'm really happy for Sam Vokes. He doesn't always start, but he always turns up and works so hard.

When you have players like Aaron Ramsey, Gareth Bale, and Joe Allen, you've got to play football.

It's nice to be in an environment where you feel wanted.

It's not so nice when you don't feel wanted.

Football is whatever you want to play.

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

Wales was a great pleasure. It's the biggest honor I've ever had, to lead my country.

Football can change really quickly; you really are king for a day. Once you get caught up with things and think you've arrived... you've never arrived in football.

I've known John Toshack a long, long time because I grew up with his son Cameron. If he was English, there is no doubt that he would be mentioned in the same breath as someone like Terry Venables.

I don't spend enough time with my children, but when I am with them, I like to help them with their homework - even though they know more than me!

Being a manager is the closest buzz I'll ever get to playing. For every low, you get a high, and that becomes an addiction and a feeling you are always chasing.

I can remember when I was a 17-year-old at Swansea and Terry Yorath and Tommy Hutchison were in charge.

My best mates are my mates from school, and we have always stayed close.

When you are being bullied a long way from home, when you face that challenge, that is where you find out a lot about yourself.

I know Roy Hodgson very well; he rarely changes tactically.

Northern Ireland, England, Scotland - when we play each other, you don't want to lose to a neighbouring country.

I've got a strong relationship with Kit Symons.

When I was at Swansea, I lost Alan Davies, who was only 30.

Robbie James, who was a real good friend of mine, died on the pitch at 40.

I have been relegated as a player, and I have suffered the feeling of failure. It is awful, and when you are part of an international outfit that gets so close, and you don't do it, it is not a good feeling. I don't want that again. I want to be part of a team that does something no one else has done.

I don't actually think about going down in history.

I never played in a European Championship. I wasn't good enough.

I never played in a World Cup. I wasn't good enough.

I get the Swansea-Cardiff thing: I was a Swansea player; I loved playing against Cardiff. But when I played for Wales and played with Jason Perry or Nathan Blake, I never saw them as blue and white and me as black and white.

I'm never content, and I don't know if that's a curse or a good thing.

When a special moment happens, I really enjoy it, but I'm over it quite quickly. I remember it, yes, but I want to chase the next one.

That's not always a nice feeling when you've given everything, and it's not enough - it's an empty feeling.

I have a lot of time and respect for Roy Hodgson; he's a very good manager.

At international level, I've only ever wanted Wales.

There are a lot of good managers out of work because there are only so many jobs out there, and if you get it wrong two jobs running, it's hard to get a third one. That's generally the rule.