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" I think medically, football is generally well looked after. There are always checks made. Anything which can be done to make footballers or sportsmen of any area safer has to be encouraged. "

" Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football. "

" The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known. "

" 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. "

" Football's the big cheese, if you like. It's easy to have a swipe. There's a lot of footballers, and when they fall foul, they become big news. "

" I generally have a brand of brief on every day. "

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

" This whole 'tired footballers' and three-games-a-week thing is an absolute myth. "

" In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years. "

" Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through. "

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

" I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Some players are quite homely, and they don't see themselves going abroad; others would relish the challenge. I can only speak personally, but I always wanted the challenge, and to go and live in a place like Barcelona was great. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now. "

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

" The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been. "

" The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas. "

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

" My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways. "

" Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win. "

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

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

" In terms of politics, I just look at people's policies, and sometimes I agree with something, sometimes I won't. "

" In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top would go - but that doesn't seem to be the case with FIFA. "

" I think the important thing we have to remember about football in this country is that it is very vibrant, and it's very good to watch, not only in the flesh but also on TV, because our stadiums are full. "