Chris Coleman

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. ”

Sometimes in football, the best team does not necessarily win; it's the team that plays best on the day that prevails. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

My dad was Dublin born and bred - a Dublin boy - but he always pushed me to play for what was Wales Under-15s in my day. ”

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

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