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" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I fancy our chances at the European Championships. "

" I have a lot of good football talk with cabbies, but when you want to get somewhere in a hurry, it can be distracting. I always know they're going to want to talk football if 'Talksport' is on the radio. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering who's performing better, you take your eye off the ball. "

" Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on. "

" 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. "

" If I lose the ball, I lose it trying to do the right thing. That's the way it is. "

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

" 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. "

" Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal. "