We have analysed a lot of the clubs that have got promoted, what they have done and how they have gone about their work.
For me, it's about improving the team and making sure that we are the best we can be, and I'm sure that if we are, we will win games.
Change is always difficult.
In an ideal world you would carry on with the players who have come through with you but that's not always possible.
It is very easy to be lazy and churn out the same stuff because you have done it before but we have never followed that and we always try to push to create new things.
I think there's a lot to be said for, probably from my side, if you're happy in the environment you are in and you are trusted by very good people above you and the conditions are right for you to do your best work, then that is worth so much.
Even at the end of the season, it's always about the next achievement, the next thing we can do. And I want to be like that - that's how I think you get the next one. One day I'm sure I will look back with so many special memories - probably too many to even talk about - but that will be the time I'll enjoy it.
You hear a lot of players say: 'Well, the manager put the ball down and stuck it in the top corner.'... I'm not one of them.
There's a lot I might think I know about a person but then, when they start to talk about themselves and their childhood and certain things that might have happened in their lives, you tend to take a totally different view.
The culture of any organisation determines its success. It's all about how people interact with each other and you can stimulate that with little things to get them talking and mixing in different groups.
Top players earn huge sums but it's about stressing that everyone's important, staff member or player, young or old.
I'm not one of those people who tries to see how they're perceived by anybody.
I'm not on Twitter, I wouldn't even know how to access it.
You need a really supportive wife, who understands how hard I want to work, how desperate to be successful I am, and then she needs to make sacrifices in order for me to be able to do my job properly.
It's very important we treat everyone with love and care.
You have to attract players, they have to want to come and they have to improve the squad.
January's an incredibly difficult window to recruit in, especially when your league position's difficult.
I always think that it's important that you give players feedback, it's something that I never really got. You just played game to game, hoping you were doing all right, never really being told.
My diaries are so important to me. If I lost them I would be heartbroken, because I keep a record of every session I've ever done since I went into management. Looking back and reflecting is just as important as looking forward, so I constantly look at them for inspiration, to remember what we have done.
I find statistics a good thing to measure and we do look closely at them, but we don't go crazy on it, and I certainly don't use it against players.
It is a great honour to become head coach of a club with the stature and history of Newcastle United.
There's a lot of worry in the world. The reality is that it's all about the preparation. You hope then that the result takes care of itself in the knowledge that you have done everything in your power to produce the best performance.
I'm a firm believer that your place in football isn't set. It is earned but I know it is also true that clubs can go the other way with bad decisions.
I think clubs can grow from a point into something bigger than you ever imagined they could with wise decisions at correct times.
People will get tired of you if you are not winning games or achieving success.
The best thing about managing Newcastle United is the impact it has on people.
I think I was a good student when I was young. I always wanted to please my mum, be a good lad, do well and show that I had a good attitude.
I always worked hard at everything I did and tried to give my best. I don't think I was necessarily gifted, I wasn't a gifted student, I wasn't a gifted sportsman, really.
Everything I've achieved has been through a lot of practice, a lot of repetition, so nothing has ever come easy.
We'll be at our best when we're ourselves.
I never like to predict outcomes, or what's going to happen, all I like to do is concentrate on producing the right mentality and way of playing within the group every game.
To win away from home is crucial.
Jamie Vardy has unique strengths. He combines an incredible work ethic with real pace, determination and fight to score his next goal.
I think you have to evolve, you have to change.
If you don't I think very quickly in the modern climate you get left behind. Your ideas can become dated.
From a players' perspective, I don't think you ever want to see anyone say anything negative towards any other team in the Premier League.
We don't overreact whether we win or lose.
If you go back through the history of football there will be great stories where teams have achieved great things from an owner or a benefactor or whatever you want to call it.
What the FFP structure will do is stop the underdog, the smaller team having the chance to succeed and I do not think anyone will want to see that - the rich get richer and the smaller clubs struggle to compete.
I do not think there is anything wrong, if people have the money and they are willing to put it into a football club.
Tony Pulis was the manager in my first pre-season out of school. It was extremely tough, but opened my eyes to a lot. He was always very hands on. I regard Tony as a good friend and someone who has an infectious passion for football.
I think it's difficult for British coaches to get a job at the top clubs and may get harder as time goes by.
The more foreign managers who come in and do well the tougher it becomes for British guys. The challenge is for us prove we are good enough.
New ways of playing should be embraced.
I will give 100% every single day to try and bring success to Newcastle.
I've always had the mindset of getting the best out of what we have and find a way to be successful with it.
I want my squad to be confident, ambitious. They have to believe in big things and we have to set targets internally.
I respect everyone at Burnley, the owners, the people who gave me the chance to work there, and I really, really enjoyed it, albeit the team was in transition.
The Premier League moves so quickly, the competition is so strong, you have to try and be ahead of the game.