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" The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again. "

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" I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life. "

" The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution. "

" When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped. "

" I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.' "

" The possibility that a provincial town could win the League completely bucks the trend. "

" You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money. "

" I've now been in over 100 adverts for Walkers, and we've had a lot of laughs along the way. "

" We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers. "

" We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job. "

" If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer. "

" As footballers, you just grow up with people from different backgrounds and different colors of skin. "

" I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner. "

" I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy. "

" I just think to be a manager you've got to live and breathe and have this incredible enthusiasm for football, the whole thing. And while I love the game, and it's been a large part of my life, it's not the only thing in my life. "

" There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it. "

" I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs. "

" I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed. "

" The Leicester story is great for the game in England. It's great for the appreciation of the Premier League. "

" The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition. "

" In this country, since footballs made from pigs' bladders were whacked into goals without nets, we've played on full-size pitches. Whatever our age. "

" The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem. "

" Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was cynical about it to begin with, but I have been converted. "

" I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people. "

" A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups. "

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" Must say though, I'm rather chuffed to have been called a 'luvvie'. "

" I've known Mark Hughes for half a lifetime. We joined Barcelona in the same summer of 1986, played together under Terry Venables and Luis Aragones, and have kept in touch ever since. "

" When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire. "