All I have ever wanted to do is be a professional footballer.

A footballer must quit at the right time.

I'm a footballer; I want a football club.

Of course I would have liked to have played at the World Cup, but I achieved so much in my career as a footballer that I can't have any complaints.

One of my biggest goals is to not be remembered as just a footballer.

People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.

I've been booed in Holland and in Uruguay - as a professional footballer, you need to have thick skin and just get used to it.

Every footballer has his ups and downs.

I think, at 32, you are past your prime as a footballer.

I'm a working class lad. So at 25, and with no-one in our family having any theatrical inclination, when I said, 'I'm going to scratch all that and become an actor,' I may as well have said I was going to be a Premiership footballer for the chance I'd have.

We want to be treated as professionals and like the male footballers.

Maybe I'm the only footballer who isn't interested in cars. My Lancia Y gets me around.

I'm a footballer first and foremost and I want to be remembered for what I do on the pitch.

Every footballer wants to play. No one is happy when they are not playing.

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

I have been following the Premier League very closely because once you have been a footballer you have an affinity with the game.

For a footballer, not playing is like a fish not being in the water.

I think if you're a footballer, you want to play in big stadiums like Old Trafford.

On some occasions, it is every footballer's dream to play for the national team, but if you don't reach it, you always need to work harder to reach a higher level, a level you wouldn't reach if you didn't have this as a goal.

I don't believe that there's a footballer out there that only thinks about football.