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

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" 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. "

" I like to go to America. That's where I go for most of my holidays. "

" 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. "

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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 admit I was somewhat concerned when we started to sign so many players - naturally you are going to worry about whether you can retain your place in the side. "

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

" 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. "

" I fancy our chances at the European Championships. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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