177 Quotes by Sven Eriksson

It's good to have these sort of problems.

I have spoken with the players concerned today and I have been very pleased with their reaction and am confident my relationship with them has not been damaged in any way. I would like to assure everyone, especially the fans, that I'm 100 percent committed to the England job.

You tell him certain things and he does them. The game he played in Portugal for us in February was fantastic and he did well again on Sunday.

I have spoken to David James today and explained to him that, on this occasion, I think it's best not to select him,

It's like he's going out on a school pitch and saying 'give me the ball and I will enjoy myself'.

I have always been very confident we can win the World Cup.

It's not an easy group, but it could have been worse, much worse. I asked to avoid the Netherlands and we did that and I asked to avoid Australia and we did that as well.

I had hoped to avoid Sweden. Here in England everyone is counting on a win, despite not having won against Sweden since 1968.

That is the serious stuff but tonight was an excellent football game and that is what we needed at this moment.