Quotes from Robbie Savage

Not many people leave a job where they have fallen short and land another one higher up the ladder. Nice work if you can get it.

We read and hear a lot about the celebrity culture of football these days, but some people seem to believe that players or coaches who are millionaires by salary are fair game in public.

But 30 is a turning point in most footballers' lives - because your market value starts to fall.

I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30

If he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him.

The club is always bigger than the individual, and employers can make a player's life miserable if they want.

I believe I had an unbelievable career. Because there are so many kids who will never get the opportunities I had with more footballing ability.

The thing is, I think all my experiences, good and bad on the football field, helped me in my punditry because Ive been in situations where Ive gone to ground too easily, Ive made a mountain out of a molehill, Ive tried to get players sent off for the good of my team, wrongly. Ive acted stupidly, celebrated.

Yeah I've got a mouth on me, but what I do is I give it as I see it.

With only 30% of players in Premier League squads qualified to play for England, the accent on developing home-grown talent is heavier than ever.

I'd rather be at home with my family anyway. I'm a completely different person there than on the football field. Ask anybody who knows me. They will all say I'm one of the nicest people you could ever meet.

In fairness, 95 per cent of football fans are wonderful. A picture or an autograph is no problem for them.

I am passionate about grass-roots football providing a pathway to careers in the professional game, and I have seen a big step forward in terms of players behaviour.

Listen, the way I am, I'm never going to please everyone. But I wouldn't change a thing. There are ups and downs. But overall life is great. I love being Robbie Savage.

If you have a big crowd for a derby game where passions run high, you dont ask inexperienced stewards to keep an eye on them for pocket money. You need to employ professionals and pay them the going rate.

I'm horrendous at dancing but I think if you do 'Strictly', you go on to another level, and that's a level I have never been at.

I've only had to choose between family and career once before, when Vancouver Whitecaps wanted to sign me. I didn't want to take my kids out of school so I didn't go.

Football should be accessible to every child, regardless of ability or background.

Im not ashamed to say Im addicted to football.

The good thing about being a pundit now is you have ex-footballers together and there's good banter. That's what it was like in the dressing room every day.

As a player, I was a pantomime villain and I had my limitations. But I was also good enough to captain four Premier League clubs, win 39 caps for my country and be transferred for fees running into millions of pounds.

A club steeped in nearly 150 years of history is worth more to the local community than any amount of money can express.

I didn't make it at Manchester United because I had no choice, I wasn't good enough, but I was lucky enough to go elsewhere and have a career.