I know you have to manage a certain way when you're manager of Manchester United, but if you take away that brashness you lose what Jose Mourinho is about, he likes to create this siege mentality and that's what Sir Alex (Ferguson) did for 26 years. He told us in every team meeting that the rest of the world doesn't like you, wants you to fail, and that was the basis of our motivation in a lot of our games.

Phil Neville

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I’m in for work at 6.30am and one of the last to leave. I don’t want to go home. We have beds at the training ground and I go home sometimes and say to my wife: 'Do you know something, I didn’t want to leave work today!' It’s not a slight on my wife. It’s just a great position to be in when you love your job so much.

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The Brazilians were South American, and the Ukranians will be more European.

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I look at someone like Giggsy and he is an inspiration to all of us.

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Well done to Sweden but it is a nonsense game, i think maybe there was carry on from the semi-final - the emotion. The two goals sparked us into life and I don't think I have seen us play better than we did after those first 20 minutes.

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We're getting to the stage now where women's football is taking off. Our crowds are getting bigger, we've got sponsors now.

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We actually spoke today and we actually both said that we don't speak to each other probably enough and exchange views, it's something that over the next six months I'd be foolish not to tap into his experience of what he's been through the last four years with the Under-21s and senior men, because he's been to European Championships, he's been to World Cups. He's been successful.

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When Jose finishes at a club there is a pattern where he falls out with players, gets disgruntled and the team dips, i can't see him staying for too long at United - maybe two or three years seems to be his shelf life at a club - but as long as he brings success United fans won't be unhappy.

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I am a Manchester United fan and next season I want them to be winning the league, that will be the demands put on him and I am sure he will have the same expectation.

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Mourinho is a proven winner. United fans want a team challenging for the league title, they don't want a team finishing in seventh or fifth.

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There has always been an inner self-motivation for me. Mine goes back to my United days of us against the world and proving everyone wrong.

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I love positivity. I'm always saying, 'Well done' - maybe too often, in fact.

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I came out with a few plaudits, and I don't really enjoy that because I am a team player. I don't shout about myself, and I've always been team-orientated, so maybe that is why I have always slipped under the radar throughout my career.

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I'm going to prove I can coach in the women's game and prove I can manage an England team to success.

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I'm working with elite players, and they test and challenge you.

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I've proved I'm in love with the women's game, and I think the quality is unbelievable.

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I've been the captain of a Premier League club, and I've coached some of the best players in the world.

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I could play anywhere. I played everywhere on the pitch for United, apart from No. 9 or keeper.

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I had a good football intelligence. I didn't need 10 games to get used to a position. I could go out and do a job.

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My sister is one of the best netball players England's ever produced, and she is now England manager. Almost every day, we sit round the table; we talk about what she's done in her job, how she's dealt with players. I've followed her pathway.

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I do my best thinking when I'm out running. When I'm out in the hills around Manchester, that's when my head clears. That's when I think about the things I'm going to say to my players in the biggest moments.

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