Wales Quotes

Northern Ireland, England, Scotland - when we play each other, you don't want to lose to a neighbouring country.
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.
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.
Players hold a lot of their emotions in.
Robbie James, who was a real good friend of mine, died on the pitch at 40.
Since I was five or six years old, I just wanted to be a professional football player. I wanted to play against the best players. I wanted to play in big stadiums in front of big crowds, and I was desperate to play for my country one day, and thankfully, I was lucky enough that happened.
Sometimes in football, the best team does not necessarily win; it's the team that plays best on the day that prevails.
That's not always a nice feeling when you've given everything, and it's not enough - it's an empty feeling.
The biggest word in football, and it's a dirty word - no one likes to use it - is accountability.
The dressing room is not the place where you show emotion.
There are a lot of good managers out of work because there are only so many jobs out there, and if you get it wrong two jobs running, it's hard to get a third one. That's generally the rule.
There's not many Premier League clubs as big as Sunderland, with their fanbase and stadium and facilities.
To manage another country? No, I wouldn't. That's not something I would consider.
Tournament football is unlike anything else. The campaign can be great, but a finals is a different challenge.
Wales was a great pleasure. It's the biggest honor I've ever had, to lead my country.
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.
When I was at Swansea, I lost Alan Davies, who was only 30.
When I was playing, I always preferred to be meeting a side like the Faroe Isles or San Marino early doors. Do things right in those games, and you knew you would get six points on the board, at least be up and running and challenging in the group.
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.
When you are in an international camp, you are together for 10 days. You eat three times a day together. You spend a lot of time in each other's company. That 10 days is very important ,and I think even times for training, times when you eat, meetings, this that and the other, a lot has got to change in that camp.
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Alan Cranston
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19 June, 1914
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31 December, 2000
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