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" I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG' on the iPad the other day and it was so interesting to see his descriptions of clothes and places. "

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" 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. "

Frank Lampard

Family

Way

Time

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

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

" Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'm really happy here. I think anyone who knows me well, and the fans too I hope, they know that I love the area, and the bond that I've had with the fans has been fantastic. "

Frank Lampard

Think

Love

" Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and know them as lads, it's always a bit different. "

" I am certainly not the most talented player in the world; there's many a more talented player than me. "

Frank Lampard

World

I Am

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Frank Lampard

Day

Think

" If I ever have a son, I would call him Frankie, and it's a family name - it's my dad and my dad's dad, so you know, it sticks. I won't forget it. "

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

" For present buying, I go to Harrods because there are great personal shoppers, who point me in the right direction. "

" 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. "

" If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the table. "

" Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype. "

" 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. "

" Goals never come easy. No one gives you goals. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I come from a football family which has really helped. "

" I don't know if we'd have been as dominant as we were last season. The new things, the new ideas the manager brought in everyone took them on board so well. He is special. "

" I've enjoyed every minute of travelling and playing for my country. What an honour that is. "

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

Frank Lampard

Ground

Work

" Everyone's got unfinished business with Barcelona. They're the greatest team in the world. "

" I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through. "