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" I fancy our chances at the European Championships. "

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" Scoring goals is the best feeling you can have. I always look up at the stand for my family straight afterwards; it means everything to me that they travel to every game. "

" I'm like everyone else: I want to play every game, but it's not possible. "

" I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love. "

" I think about all my successes and failures, and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on. "

" I am a man who likes to play consistently; I always play better when I'm on a run of games. "

" People can talk about my age for as long as they like. There is nothing better in football than proving people wrong, and I'll try to do that for as long as I can. "

" I have made lots of mistakes on and off the pitch, and you can only learn from them. If I can get that across, then hopefully I am doing something right. "

" A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all. "

" I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years. "

" I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true. "

" I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges. "

" I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through. "

" Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way. "

" When you take a lot of stick you want to ram it down people's throats. "

" Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories. "

" In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people. "

" You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win. "

" I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football. "

" I'm happy here, and why change when you love the club and the club's in a really good position right now. "

" I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate. "

" Being faster would probably make me better at football. "

" My dad shaped the footballing side of me, and Mum shaped me as a person. I've always been very close to her - we've only ever had one argument, and that was over something stupid when I was 13. "

" There's that talent thing where I can score goals, and there's also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing it and doing it. I've seen a lot of players do it for a year and then they rest on their laurels, but I've been very driven throughout my career. Without being the most talented, I think I've tried to make the most of it. "