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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" I always dedicate my goals to my mum. I lost her a couple of years ago. She was my biggest supporter and is always with me. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves. "

" 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. "

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" I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character. "

" To be honest, I was Mum's boy. Always was, always will be. "

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