Quotes from Gary Lineker

My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.

There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.

People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.

I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.

I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them.

This is ludicrous. Seven- and eight-year-olds valiantly trying to cover the same acreage as those grown-up chaps in the Premier League is absurd. To add to the lunacy, a little goalkeeper, barely out of nappies, has to stand between posts that are eight strides apart - adult strides - and under a crossbar more than twice his height.

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people.

People are possibly not spelling 'Leicester' correctly everywhere round the globe, but they are at least saying it correctly now.

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

Ferrari or Lamborghini. Never fancied one of those - too flash for me. I don't really like seeking too much attention.

Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.

Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.

I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!

I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.

People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.

It would be more weird if people didn't stare at me or shout at me.

It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.

I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.

Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.

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 treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?

I don't feel that I'm particularly political. I'm interested in politics; I'll express my view if I feel strongly about something, but humanitarian issues, I think, are slightly different.

You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is.