Sean Dyche

I saw Metallica, I'm not a major Metallica fan, but I like music enough to get invited and went.

No one seems to want to do anything about diving in the game apart from me. I'm still amazed by it. Kids everywhere are watching, all copying it. No one seems to care about it.

I don't think I've ever been a fashion item, I don't think I was as a player.

We're oppressed, I think, you know there's only 5 per cent of the world's population who are ginger? So it's a tough time for us gingers.

I was a player who got the job done, and I think I'm kind of maybe thought of like that as a manager.

If I can understand them better as a person then I can understand how to make them a better player too.

I look at the group I've got and then I decide what strengths and weaknesses they have and then I formulate an appropriate way the players can work in order to be collectively successful.

I love the relentless nature of a side that never gives up.

I've put all the hours in and there's a depth to my education. There are a couple of brain cells in there, more than you might expect of a 6ft 1in ginger skinhead.

People suppose that you are great if you win and rubbish if you lose. Well, actually, whatever the result I still know what I am doing.

I won promotion four times as a player, and I'm not going to deny I would enjoy another one as a manager, but you can ask any of the clubs I went up with and they will tell you the same. My focus was always dead calm, always on the next game.

I am at A and going all the way to Z is high unlikely in any career, let alone football. You have to weave your way like the river, pick up your skills and keep going.

You need doors to open, you need a chance - and you have got to have something, to take your chance when the door opens at the right time. My first port of call was to be a manager, then it was a successful manager, then it was a Premier League manager.

A good player is a good player, it's just that we cannot afford signings that do not work.

The teams that you come across, they are not physically super-human, they are just very good. So it is asking what do we about that. How do we take on the challenge?

All I can do is work hard, prepare the players properly, give them everything I've got and they give me everything they've got.

If your performance levels are right, that brings results and that brings momentum naturally. We believe in the training schedule.

We want to be strong and we want to be in a position to maximise the potential of the players in every game because it's a long season with 46 league games.

I don't want just pure roll out of the back four. I want productive mixed play... how many ways can you affect a game?

There's a bit of a myth that you pre-suppose every European player is better than every English player.