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" Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office. "

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" Ferrari or Lamborghini. Never fancied one of those - too flash for me. I don't really like seeking too much attention. "

" In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen. "

" The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas. "

" I don't feel that I'm particularly political. I'm interested in politics; I'll express my view if I feel strongly about something, but humanitarian issues, I think, are slightly different. "

" When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire. "

" I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people. "

" I've now been in over 100 adverts for Walkers, and we've had a lot of laughs along the way. "

" The two centre-backs, Rob Huth and Wes Morgan, are in many ways journeyman pros, but they have that wonderful attitude and never-say-die spirit that has culminated in them being top of the league. "

" Playing football and presenting TV are totally different things, but there are similarities: it's exciting, it can go well, it can go badly... the difference is when presenting goes badly, it doesn't really affect anyone's life, whereas when you have a bad day on the pitch, it affects people's moods for a whole week. "

" It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League. "

" I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else. "

" I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him. "

" I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters. "

" The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution. "

" I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage. "

" You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll. "

" You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money. "

" We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue. "

" I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths. "

" The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country? "

" Ultimately, if we can develop enough players, the balance of foreign players isn't great, but that's because we're not producing enough players. "

" Football is losing its heart and sense of humour. "

" This is ludicrous. Seven- and eight-year-olds valiantly trying to cover the same acreage as those grown-up chaps in the Premier League is absurd. To add to the lunacy, a little goalkeeper, barely out of nappies, has to stand between posts that are eight strides apart - adult strides - and under a crossbar more than twice his height. "

" Basically, Walkers are putting real produce into their flavours, so the cheese and onion flavour is actually cheese and onion rather than just flavourings. "

" This whole 'tired footballers' and three-games-a-week thing is an absolute myth. "

" In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining. "

" I generally have a brand of brief on every day. "

" As footballers, you just grow up with people from different backgrounds and different colors of skin. "

" I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination. "

" I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things. "