Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Michael Owen was made a captain ahead of me.
I don't want to be pigeon-holed as a firefighter.
My values are in my DNA and were shaped by my environment.
If football covers all your emotions, that's too shallow for me.
The main thing is when you make mistakes, you try to learn from them.
I like to be a tiger roaming the jungle or an eagle soaring the skies.
I've always felt wingers, more than any type of player, can change a game.
You have to truly believe in your skill and trust that you can do something.
I believe if I was white I would've been England captain for more than 10 years.
I saw a lot of stuff growing up as a young kid that I don't want my kids seeing.
I think that what London wants are people with ideas and the willpower to get things through.
If you have got diversity on your board, then you are going to have new ideas come to the table.
I'm used to having strong women around me. My mother was. My wife is. I like their strong mentality.
I'm from Stratford, East London. I can get down and dirty. I just roll my sleeves up and get on with it.
Some people need safety nets. Some people need two safety nets. I've grown up with no safety nets around me.
When someone intelligent comes around, and looks at life around football in a different way, it can be alien.
Politics is very hard work. You have to really commit to things. Some people get into it for the wrong reasons.
Every case is different, but what I want to do first and foremost at Southend is to get the players up to speed.
Once you start realising where you are, then you can start realising what you have to do to get the best results.
With Newcastle there are 50,000 people watching and they want it to be a success, and that is what I am all about.
Training-wise, you have to work on your weaknesses, preparing yourself properly for the game, on and off the field.
I have all sorts of country clothing because we live in Northumberland as well as London. You need good quality gear.
Young players have to realise pretty quickly that it is not about one game, but how you perform over the whole season.
I'm a street footballer and you still get street footballers from Africa, South Africa and really poor parts of Europe.
People like to put people in little boxes and if you don't fit you're odd. But they don't really know anything about me.
We all like a party but when that 'becomes the main feature of your lifestyle as a footballer, I haven't got time for that.
I am a naturally big guy, but I cannot rush my conditioning, otherwise trying too much too quickly could result in injuries.
The career I have had should warrant me getting a job. I've done all the badges. I'm doing my coaching badges with the Welsh FA.
Some players can just act like 'whatever' off the field and then play amazing. Not many, but some. I just wasn't wired like that.
There are things that are not in your control and you will never be able to control them. You've got to accept that very quickly.
Most of my players have come through academies with clubs. That's not a bad thing, but it's very different to what I grew up with.
I learned a lot from Arsene Wenger, especially his tactical systems and how to plan things game to game, week to week and month to month.
I don't want to sit by the edge, like some other guys who have played their game. Earned money, have nice lifestyles, and don't say anything.
The main thing is to have strings to your bow. You get your badges, you see where life is, and then you see what things come your way, if any.
My message is simple to all the knockers: I am knuckling down and want to play my football with a great club and a great manager. Then you can judge me.
As long as I do a good job and do it professionally and people see the quality, and see who I really am, then I think that's all you can do in football.
I'm a winner. I love to build. I've got great ideas. I've got the passion. I'm very diligent, and if given a chance I'll work my rear end off to be a success.
I don't rely on off-shore tax havens, and I don't want to invest in stocks and shares as we have seen how volatile that game has been since the financial crash.
I like building teams and I want to run my own show, in the nicest possible way, to see how far I can go, starting with getting Macclesfield further up the table.
But when you look at some of the other guys who have started with their careers in management, they all started with no experience. You have got to start somewhere.
The only pictures you saw of me when I was playing, I was crashing into a centre forward! Or running down a line to save my team. I'm not gonna be happy, be smiling.
As a player I was taught the importance of working four or five passes within your team and then stretching the play. That's something I believe in strongly as a coach.
For too long executive officials, businesspeople and hangers-on have enjoyed this private casino, using the payments into Fifa's account to fund their lavish lifestyles.
I've been abroad, I've been at home. I've even flown 10 hours away for an interview, so I've done a lot of miles. I should probably be an ambassador for British Airways.
People have to recognise I'm a working-class lad. Forget what I've done and where I've been. I'm a working-class lad. I've come from nothing and I've not forgotten that.
We can't all have gleaming grass, cut to the millimetre, perfectly manicured and watered when needed and looked after by 10 groundsmen. Not everyone can be at these clubs.
With the Tube, it just needs more investment. Maybe lengthening some of the platforms to get more carriages in, things like that. It just needs more investment put into it.
My wife's family kept inviting me to shoot and I just didn't want to go, but since retiring from football I've had more time and I thought... let's get all the kit and practice.
You can be yourself and still have fun without crossing the line. Sometimes I feel like today's players don't want to do anything! Come on, be yourself! That's what people want.
My parents worked hard. My mother, Wilhelmina, was a very strong woman. She had to be with 12 kids. She would do anything for the family. She was a light, the glue in the family.