I have a massive fear of going stale and falling into a comfort zone.

I feel at Manchester City I will get the chance to play regularly in my best position and play a big part in a successful side.

I was 32 when I signed for Everton, and Roberto Martinez said, 'With your style of game, you can play until you're 40.' I'm sitting there laughing at him, but he was deadly serious. I still laughed.

When somebody mentioned yoga for the first time, I just looked at it and thought, 'This isn't for me; it's for an older woman down at the health club trying to get supple.' But I thought, 'No, I can see the benefits there. I've got to embrace it.'

One of my strengths is focusing on football, and even in the summer, I try not to switch off too much.

My head has just been all about wanting to play regular football in the Premier League.

Defensive midfield can be the one position that's easier to play as you get older.

You don't see too many attacking flair players continuing until their mid-30s at a high level.

When you play a lot of games in a row, and you come off the pitch thinking, 'I can't do this no more,' then it is time to look at something else, whether you have six months left on your contract or four years.

Everton Football Club is more important than the individual.

For a young player, it's important to have people around you other than yourself. You're immature as an 18- or 19-year-old.

The pressures on younger players now are greater. You've just got to be on your toes all the time with social media and stuff. Now you just go to fill your car up, and there will be somebody wanting to film you trying to do something silly like that.

If you go into a shopping centre, there are phones and cameras everywhere, and if you're doing the wrong thing, ultimately you're going to get found out. So it's important you're living your life right, and that's hard for a young player.

That's one thing that's been aimed at me since I was 17: a lack of pace.

At the World Cup, it's the very top level. It's going to be tougher.

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.

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.

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.

If you keep always doing what you've always done, you get the same results.

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

It's an incredible privilege to be the England manager, but when you sit and think about the people who have got to this point before, people I hugely respect and admire... it's difficult to put it into perspective, really.

Sometimes you have to make decisions for the bigger picture.

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.

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

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.

When you become England manager, the change in profile and interest in what you're doing is on another level.

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

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.

It's impossible to please everybody all of the time, but you just have to believe that you're making decisions for the right reasons.

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

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

I was always the captain of every club I played for, so I would expect to be somebody who put themselves forward.

In a team, you need players who are technically good and can perform under pressure.

Ultimately, playing at international level, at all age groups, is good for a player's development, and that is good for clubs, too.

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

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

We always have to believe in what is possible in life and not be hindered by history or expectations.

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.

I didn't like it as a player when I felt a coach was fudging the reasons for leaving me out. As a player, I wanted to know where I was lacking in my game and where I could improve in order to get back in the team.

In the end, success in a shoot-out is being able to perform a particular skill under pressure.

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

We have to make the players who haven't played matches feel valued.

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

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.

I have been in sport in different areas for long enough to know what my life is day to day.

Unless you're at a club long enough that can develop a philosophy of playing and recruiting players that fit that way of playing, then you have got to be adaptable.

It's important to recognise every player is different in their own characteristics, personality, and what they respond to.

Always, as a coach, you have to be thinking not to flood the players with information. You have to think what's key for the player, for that team, and how do we deliver it in a way that it might stick and have an effect.

Good decisions are not necessarily playing it short every time you get the ball. The best teams can play longer or have a threat behind or play through or around. They adapt.

I am extremely proud to be appointed England manager. However, I am also conscious getting the job is one thing; now I want to do the job successfully.