The main problem with English players has always been the price.

If success is about winning the league, there will always be 19 disappointed clubs.

I'm always disappointed when we lose, and it's happened quite a few times.

I think, increasingly, people will define success as staying in the League, being a stable Premier League club that treats its fans to good football every year.

It hasn't always been a Premier League ride for Crystal Palace supporters. They're there to support us through the hard times.

I enjoyed Wembley like all the managers before me, and I would hope that games would still be played there by the England national team.

I assisted Bobby Houghton at Halmstads, and we were both just under 30. We'd say, 'Wouldn't it be great to do this for maybe 10 years, save a little money, then perhaps start a little business together.' Some sort of travel agency. We had no football thoughts beyond that, other than maybe combining it with a bit of sport, getting a few tours going.

The day it becomes impossible for teams like Palace to get results against City, the league might as well just fold up, and we'll do everything on paper.

The reality of football rests on that patch of green between 90 and 95 minutes. Whichever team is going to win has to do it on the field of play and by scoring more goals than the opposition.

I don't think there are many people out there - except, perhaps, the odd Twitter troll who knows no better - who believes that racially abusing people or threatening people is the right way to go.

I can get by quite well in Italian or German, though if the discussion got to a high level, I'd run out of vocabulary. I'm stronger in French and Swedish.

There aren't many English managers, I suppose, who've had the sort of career that I've had, outside the country. With the amount of money that is going around in the Premier League, not many people are tempted to move abroad.

Anyone who watches football and watches Tottenham play would have to be an admirer of the way they play football and the way they go about their business.

Getting the balance right in everything is all of football and all of sport.

There might be more meetings and situations where you're required to represent the country in some way that wouldn't necessarily happen to you if you're a club manager, but other than that, I haven't found any differences in my approach between running a club side and a national team.

To be frank, you can't compare the atmosphere and the way people behaved in the Olympic Stadium with the game I watched the day after, the Community Shield.

When you have been lucky enough to move up the ladder, all you see, really, is the slide back down. You don't see the further steps upwards.

A lot of young coaches who respect the fact I have been doing it a long time, that is often their question: 'Does it get any easier? Can you relax more during the games? Can you take it all a little bit more philosophically and put it more in perspective?' The tragedy is that I have to tell them, 'No. If anything, it gets worse.'

Often, in a tournament, the players that get injured or suffer a lack of form are the guys at the cutting edge, the guys who make the difference or score the goals.

I am both proud and excited at the prospect of working as the Liverpool manager.

A lot of the players who've done so well aren't necessarily the big names: James Tomkins, Luka Milivojevic to name two.

I quite liked Dostoyevsky when I was younger.

Systems win you nothing, and football players win you games.

I have worked long and hard to reach the level I have reached.

Most teams - whether they like it or not against Manchester City - you're going to find yourself quite often penned in your own half.

I try very hard not to look back.

You can't flirt with relegation every year.

I suffer during games. We follow the action, kicking every ball, wondering if our centre-backs can stop the cross... In some ways, you enjoy it, but your heart is always thumping.

I've worked for a long time and hope people have developed enough confidence in me that it will remain even in a period when we're not winning many games.

I don't sit around wondering, 'Why am I here? Who made the stars?' I prefer to look at the stars and benefit from them rather than concern myself with how they got there.

I was so fully involved in football and building a career that I didn't spend nearly enough time with my son when he was growing up.

I don't know whether you ever get over things that cause you pain.

I don't think anything's cruel - if you're so sensitive these days that you see cruelty everywhere, unfortunately every time a comedian comes on television, you're going to accuse him of cruelty, because that's the kind of humour that the English people enjoy.

Really and truly, I don't like talking about refereeing decisions.

Of course, any work you do as a sporting person, a football coach or any coach, if it is good work, you've got to have something - a championship - to show for it.

What you've got to do in any coaching job, whether it is moving to Sweden as a young man - where being English gave you a slight advantage - or something else, you've got to win the players' respect.

I have always promised myself and my wife that when I don't enjoy it anymore, or I can't handle the stress and the pressure that comes with having such a high-profile and top job - or my energy levels starts to fail me, or my enthusiasm starts to be dented - I won't prolong my career longer than I feel I should.

I've got to that stage in my life where, difficult decisions I don't have to make, I push them into the future until such time I have to make them.

I don't own photograph albums - the pictures that are important to me are etched in my mind.

Brazil is a fantastic football country.

I'm a football manager, a football coach; I can't be expected to pontificate on everything.

I have been in football a long time.

The important thing is to take each game as it comes.

For goal-scorers and centre-forwards, confidence does play a big part.

The last thing you want as a striker is the opposing team putting all 10 players behind the ball.

It does get hot in England from time to time.

Talk is talk; action on the field is action on the field.

People are entitled to say what they feel sometimes.

All of the top managers I have come across during my career and befriend, they suffer as much with the defeats and when things don't go their way late in life as they did early in life.

I don't like talking about not getting what you deserve, because that has no part to play in football. You get what you get.