177 Quotes by Sven Eriksson

I'm delighted that we have been able to finalize these fixtures quickly and am very pleased with our opponents. These games will allow us to test ourselves against teams with very different styles of play, which is critical ahead of a World Cup.

If you are a Swede living in Sweden, Portugal and Italy you don't know much about cricket. We don't understand, we have never played it. If you live in England, you should go to see it at least once to know something about it.

I hope we can be very aggressive anyhow. Start early sometimes and wait sometimes because the heat. It's less humid in Portugal than it was in Japan. It's a big difference. The weather is good and it's not that humid so we will handle it I'm sure.

If we were not in the play-offs, I would not have been here. That is for sure. But if I leave the job, it will be on the England results and not what the press says.

I hope the World Cup is not over for Rooney. He's an optimistic young man, a fighter, so I hope he can take part.

I always said we have to do better than we did in Japan, and that was the quarter-finals, but I also said if we had the players who are fit I think we have a squad who can win the World Cup. I think we are that good, I believe it and the important thing is the players believe it, they believe it much more today than four years ago.

I know that we can play much better. They went out and did a job. We were brilliant sometimes and created good chances in the first half. They were brilliant in the second half defending. Austria had no good chances to score.

He wins everything up in the air and for such a tall man, he has a very good touch on the floor

I know that I have the full support of the players and the FA and it is important to stress ... how committed I am to achieving success this summer.