I've often said it's not just the level of your opponent: it's can you handle wearing the shirt and playing for England?

When you're a leader and a manager, you have to make decisions which are right for your group to achieve the primary objective. Sometimes those decisions will be criticised.

I've got to think through all of those things - competition for places, players who need match minutes, and keeping the unity of the squad.

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.

In every position on the field, there's really strong competition.

You have to be savvy. You have to be tactically aware, because that's what makes the difference in the big matches.

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.

No England international is a practice match. Every time you wear this shirt, it is of importance for you, the country, and the supporters.

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

Sometimes it's not always a good decision to play if people's energy isn't quite there.

Write your own stories.

Sometimes you have to make decisions for the bigger picture.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.