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" Over the years, I've had about 80 stitches in my head and face from football incidents and bar incidents, so I have lots of scars. I don't think I look intimidating, but I'm sure other people have their opinions. "

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" Americans don't care what your language is, your race is, whatever. Everyone is there to do their own thing and be successful. I wish people in Britain would be more positive. "

Vinnie Jones

People

Wish

Care

" I've got the FA Cup tattooed on my leg and the Leeds United emblem, too. On my back, I've got, 'It's been emotional,' which is my line from 'Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels.' I'm fond of my tattoos, and I'm still having more. "

" My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes. "

" I'd like to be the romantic lead one day, but I've got to grow my hair first. "

" I've always felt that people put me down, and I'd fight back. I played football 15 years, and nobody gave me any credit, and they never will do. "

Vinnie Jones

Football

Fight

" I'm lucky in that I travel a lot for work. I also manage several holidays a year. I'm not someone who sits in the sun or goes sightseeing, though. If I go away, it will be for fishing or something like that. "

" I buy hats like women buy shoes. I have well over 150. "

" Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don't get emotionally involved. Do one, move on. "

" My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away. "

" People say you can get bored of the sunshine in L.A. No, you can't. "

" I'm a Conservative, but I talk for the ordinary working classes. I get on with the boys at the pub, but I can also mix with Prince Andrew. I understand both levels. The toffs haven't lived in council estates; they've just known big mansions. How can they understand how the postman feels? I would never say no to becoming an MP. "

" I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs. "

" I like Alaska for the salmon fishing - it's fantastic there. I usually stay in a log cabin with no one around for miles. I like to go with friends, but I'm also happy to be on my own with nature. "

" For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me. "

Vinnie Jones

People

Parent

" I've always had my ear pierced with a diamond stud. I did it myself when I was 16. "

" Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school. "

" Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised. "

" The likes of Frank Lampard and John Terry at Chelsea, English players with proper status at a club, they're going to be like the dodo bird. Extinct. "

Vinnie Jones

Status

Club

" When two people break up, it's all about them; they can't see anyone else. And the people getting smashed to bits are the kids. Then you're getting torn - your mum wants you, your dad wants you. You just get shredded. It has a long-lasting effect as well. "

" We all carry our past. But it is a case of getting on with your life and improving it, if you want to. "

" People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name. "

Vinnie Jones

People

Say

" I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and we had a lot of Irish friends, so we'd stay on their farms and go fishing. They were fantastic holidays - being outdoors all day and coming home to a really warm welcome in the evenings. "

" I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed. "

Vinnie Jones

Home

Football

" For years in football I was angry with the game, angry with pundits and, a lot of the time, angry with the journalists writing about me. All that changed when I got my break in movies. "