Quotes from Troy Deeney

Players never want to lose football matches.

I felt I had a good chance of playing for England for exactly 67 days - the length of time Sam Allardyce was manager of the Three Lions in 2016.

There's always going to be setbacks.

Alex Ferguson, Mourinho, Pep you can always see the vision.

To be perfectly honest, most fans see a different game to players. I am not being rude when I say that.

There's so much negativity over this issue of dual nationality - nearly always from people who don't have mixed family backgrounds and don't understand that it's perfectly natural for those of us who do, to feel loyalty to more than one country.

I remember a life before social media. I remember phone boxes, that's what I grew up on.

When you talk about bullying I always go back to when I was at school, a bully was a big kid picking on a little kid.

There's no loyalty in football and you take it with a pinch of salt.

Obviously everyone wants to play a certain way but when you get into certain moments you need someone to hold it up or if you are losing a game, go long.

My dad was not a footballer. He wasn't anything remotely what the average person would say was a role model - but in my eyes he was Superman.

To hear that someone right around the other side of the world actually knows who Troy Deeney is, is quite surreal.

I still find it a bit surreal that Sir Elton John can call Troy Deeney from Chelmsley. It's quite entertaining but a bit surreal.

It's perceived that money can take care of anything but in my experience it makes everything 15 times harder because you can't act 'normal' and you're not allowed to be vulnerable or weak but we all are.

Relegation has happened to plenty of players who were bigger names than me.

How many women's football matches are selling out week in, week out, 20,000 plus? They're not.

At Walsall I got away with a lot of things because I was the young star and they wanted to sell me from a business point of view.

I play for Watford, it's not the biggest team in the Premier League, but I go to Antigua, I go to different countries and people go 'you're Troy Deeney.'

You don't appreciate the level of the Premier League until you are there.

The hardest part of performing in the Premier League is the mental side of it, with everything being scrutinised.

Premier League players are a lot cleverer, but they don't like being roughed up. They're not used to that.

I just got a lot of expectations and pressure on me, but it is what it is. I've got the best job in the world, I work two or three hours a day and get paid handsomely for it.

If I play at Wembley and score I will be a hero, but I am still normal Troy, making mistakes and trying to learn and improve on a day-to-day basis.

I know what I can do and what I can deliver and there's not many people who can do what I can do.