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I don't actually think about going down in history.
I don't like talking past the next game. It's never served me right in the past.
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 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 have a lot of time and respect for Roy Hodgson; he's a very good manager.
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.
I have played international football myself.
I know Roy Hodgson very well; he rarely changes tactically.
I never played in a European Championship. I wasn't good enough.
I never played in a World Cup. I wasn't good enough.
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.
I surround myself, not with yes men, but people who have their own ideas and are on board with with I want to do.
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.
I think everybody is under the impression that everyone wants to work in the Premier League. I want to work at the top level like everyone else, but it doesn't mean that's the Premier League.
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 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.
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 won't tolerate players not giving everything they've got.
I'm a believer that you're as good as your best game because that's the level that you can get to.
I'm a Welshman through and through.
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