Quotes from Robbie Savage

I wasn't confident at all as a boy and I'm still not now. I'm one of the shyest people you'll meet. My success at football was down to playing with my brother and his mates in the street.

No other industry appears to reward failure more than football's managerial merry-go-round.

I've always helped my family out because I owe my success to them.

Owners and chairmen prefer to buy in talent as investments against relegation at one end of the table, or to attain the holy grail of European football at the top end.

Football is a short-lived career, and you have to maximise your earning power while you can.

Everybody sees the person on the football field and has a perception of him, but in the media or on Twitter it's just me being myself. I'm an honest, hard-working guy who likes a laugh.

When I see Wales qualifying for the Euros and Leicester top of the league, I wish I was still playing.

At Birmingham, I was a pain in the backside for my manager Steve Bruce when I found out Blackburn wanted to sign me and it was a chance to play for Mark Hughes, a player I had idolised when he wore the red shirt of Wales.

If you ask your players to be brave on the ball, sometimes they are going to make mistakes or get caught out.

It's not the armband that makes a good captain - it's the force of personality.

Phil Neville deserves better than a feeding frenzy of carping over his appointment as England Womens coach.

I have known Phil Neville personally for 25 years, since I was in the Class of 92 at Manchester United with his brother Gary, and Im going to stick up for him because he is a top, top bloke and a proper family man.

Physical activity can improve immunity, concentration in the classroom and aerobic fitness.

Lockdowns have denied hundreds of thousands of kids access to football and, with no organised physical activity as an escape, some are becoming addicted to X-Boxes and Playstations.

Growing up, my generation would practise on concrete in the backstreets, using garage doors or the health-centre walls as goals. Taking on the older boys in the neighbourhood taught me to be humble, too.

People say I'm attention seeking by coming off the Twitter, but that's not the case. If I wanted to attention seek I could drive my Lamborghini to the Trafford Centre in my underpants.

Brendan Rodgers is leading Leicester City back into the Champions League - and he is a future Manchester United manager.

Too many points are being won or lost on the back of bad decisions which could cost clubs a place in the Champions League or send them down.

When I was playing, it wasnt even close. Arsenal were the team to beat when you turned off the North Circular.

Football without supporters is nothing.

Great players don't always make great managers, but I hope a golden generation of fantastic players' knowledge is not going to be lost when they surely have something to offer as coaches.

We cannot have Derby County going the same way as Macclesfield and Bury. That would be a stain on English football. It simply cannot be allowed to happen.

It is not my intention to break up teams at local grassroots clubs - but to make sure every kid gets an opportunity to play football for free.

I love it, I love the coaching - at 15 they listen, they learn and take things on board and if they don't there's always someone else who wants that opportunity.