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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The advantage does lie with us because we're at home and if we can't motivate ourselves for this match then we can't motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well. "

" 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. "

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

" When I was at school, I wanted to be a lawyer. "

" 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. "

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

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

Do The Right Thing

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

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

" I have never seen a player as driven and determined as me, quietly determined; that's why I always want to do the best. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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