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Prison gives you time to reflect.
There's always going to be setbacks.
Players never want to lose football matches.
I loved watching Arsenal, my son's an Arsenal fan.
I'm really a nice guy, aren't I? Not many people know that.
Alex Ferguson, Mourinho, Pep you can always see the vision.
Whoever you are, it is nice to treat your parents to stuff.
When you get into that mould of being a super sub you can't go back.
There's no loyalty in football and you take it with a pinch of salt.
You don't appreciate the level of the Premier League until you are there.
Everyone's got bills, everyone's got heartache, and everyone's got problems.
I've said for a very long time that I've got a massive respect for Joe Gomez.
Just because footballers earn a lot of money, it doesn't mean we're not human.
Things happen in football and you have to be man enough that things come and go.
My character is 'Get up and keep fighting,' unless I've been nailed to the ground.
The hardest thing for anyone is to admit you have a problem and then to act on it.
I'm genuinely a big softie, I put this front on, and I'm just a laid-back fool really.
I remember a life before social media. I remember phone boxes, that's what I grew up on.
When you are not having the best of moments in front of goal, just smash it down the middle.
We do not stand for racism on the pitch, in society or anywhere else it rears its ugly head.
How many women's football matches are selling out week in, week out, 20,000 plus? They're not.
I know what I can do and what I can deliver and there's not many people who can do what I can do.
My life has thrown up many challenges, good and bad, and nine times out of 10 I come through them.
To be perfectly honest, most fans see a different game to players. I am not being rude when I say that.
We're trying to be real in a fake world. How does that work? You're always going to lose. I just be me.
Premier League players are a lot cleverer, but they don't like being roughed up. They're not used to that.
My dad was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus in February 2012, and finding that out really messed me up.
When I got to jail, it was a blessing in disguise because it made me reevaluate and check who I am as a person.
I enjoy those physical battles and I've been on record saying Virgil van Dijk is the best defender in the world.
The hardest part of performing in the Premier League is the mental side of it, with everything being scrutinised.
To hear that someone right around the other side of the world actually knows who Troy Deeney is, is quite surreal.
None of my friends are big posters - we're old school. We text, phone and meet up and have a beer or have a curry.
I'm a big boy with big shoulders and I've had some real world issues so getting some stick online doesn't bother me.
When you get to Spurs you know the difference between the lesser clubs and the big boys. It's a different experience.
When you talk about bullying I always go back to when I was at school, a bully was a big kid picking on a little kid.
Everyone's got issues. There's a stigma in football that you earn a certain amount of money, how dare you have issues.
I'm from the era before the Internet, so I know what's real and what's not so you've just got to learn to roll with the punches.
I still find it a bit surreal that Sir Elton John can call Troy Deeney from Chelmsley. It's quite entertaining but a bit surreal.
At Walsall I got away with a lot of things because I was the young star and they wanted to sell me from a business point of view.
People are soft. The whole world is. That's why you have to be careful what you say, careful what you post, careful what you wear.
I'm a Watford player until I'm told otherwise. I'm not one who's going to be putting in transfer requests, or bashing the door down.
I always had this impression that money bought you happiness and money solved everything, and it's the biggest lie I have ever been told.
My dad was not a footballer. He wasn't anything remotely what the average person would say was a role model - but in my eyes he was Superman.
I felt I had a good chance of playing for England for exactly 67 days - the length of time Sam Allardyce was manager of the Three Lions in 2016.
If I play at Wembley and score I will be a hero, but I am still normal Troy, making mistakes and trying to learn and improve on a day-to-day basis.
Whenever I play against Arsenal - and this is just a personal thing - I go up and think 'let me whack the first one, then we will see who wants it.'
I don't mind women's football. I am of the business understanding though, when people say 'it should be equal pay.' If the business makes sense, it does.
I play for Watford, it's not the biggest team in the Premier League, but I go to Antigua, I go to different countries and people go 'you're Troy Deeney.'
Obviously everyone wants to play a certain way but when you get into certain moments you need someone to hold it up or if you are losing a game, go long.
It's heartbreaking for the people who work behind the scenes. A lot of people who are at clubs normally get affected by relegation. We feel sorry for them.