With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done.
Chris Coleman
I shared a dressing room with Alan Shearer. I used to watch the opposition looking at him, and they'd be thinking they need to score more than one because Shearer is going to score, and he scores every game. That psychological advantage is fantastic.
Tournament football is unlike anything else. The campaign can be great, but a finals is a different challenge.
Every job I've taken, I like to bring in some new faces.
People talk about great motivators, but I think motivation has to come from within the individual first, because if you haven't got that inner strength yourself, and belief and you want to do well, it doesn't matter what anybody else says. You have to have that; it has to be inbuilt.
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.
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.
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.
The biggest word in football, and it's a dirty word - no one likes to use it - is accountability.
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.
I've got a strong relationship with Kit Symons.
Of course training is very important, but resting is just as important. You have to get your recuperation, and I think all players make that mistake where they train hard but they don't rest enough, and even our school boy players, we tell them to get a lot of rest.
Everybody fails.
Concentration and focus - they are very important, just as important as in anything, I suppose, if you're going to succeed. I've seen a lot of good players on the training ground, but when it comes to the game, they can't keep the same levels up on a Saturday.
I think, a lot of guys who want to be professional football players, they see the Premiership players, and they see the finished article, but there's a lot of hard work that's gone into their careers for them to get there. There's a lot of sacrifice, and I think people tend to forget that.
I thought the first Welsh team I played in was the golden generation, with Neville Southall, Mark Hughes, Ian Rush, Dean Saunders, Gary Speed, and Ryan Giggs.
I know Roy Hodgson very well; he rarely changes tactically.
Because football is an emotional game, it's full of feeling, and that's why we try to train with a smile on our face. At the same time, we work very hard, but it's a fine line, and you've got to try and get that balance right if you can.
I think average players are able to play well now and again, or they'll play very, very well. Good players or great players, nine times out of ten, they have good games.
Where do you go from Real Madrid that's better? There's one or two clubs up there but none better.
Wales was a great pleasure. It's the biggest honor I've ever had, to lead my country.
The dressing room is not the place where you show emotion.
For Ashley Williams, he doesn't score many, but what a leader.
Players hold a lot of their emotions in.
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.
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.
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.
Champions League football in the Premier League - you're talking about the top, big, massive clubs, and it's not something I think I'd get linked with.
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.
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.
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!
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.
