Quotes from Mark Noble

If I'm on my way to play a round of golf there is an anxiety in me, a feeling of 'I can't lose today.'

Chicharito is a goal machine - he gets one chance and scores.

Players such as Scholes and Gerrard, Ryan Giggs and Jamie Carragher have consistently performed at the top level and played hundreds of games. It's fantastic, I'd love that. But you never know what's round the corner.

My biggest problem, when I was younger and when things weren't going so well, I was so enthusiastic, so anxious to make things better that I used to get myself in trouble.

I never blame the refs as I know how tough it is, how fast the play goes, how difficult it is to keep up with the play.

I know Billy Bonds quite well and he is a fantastic person and was a fantastic player.

My pet hate is being beaten by a team who works harder than you do.

I think playing for England is the pinnacle of every young English player's career.

I've been here for 19 years, so West Ham fans are bored with seeing me. It's like my wife, who changes the wallpaper every three years because she gets tired of it.

I don't think I will fully appreciate it until I have retired. My dad will ring me after a game and if we've lost it's the end of the world for me but he will say: 'I don't think you realise - you are captain of West Ham, you grew up supporting the club.'

Obviously when you grow up in the area you love playing on the street, and to go from playing on the street with my mates to playing at Upton Park is a bit surreal, and 15 years on to still be in the heart of the West Ham midfield is quite good going!

I watch a lot of football and you hardly ever see Premier League players go down with cramp. The fitness, the intensity of Premier League football is phenomenal.

Don't get me wrong, I love training and I love playing but everyday life? People see the money and the material things that footballers have but you get to a Premier League level because you have something inside you and you can play. Ninety per cent of that is self-pride.

You want to play in the Premier League, full stop. You don't want to play in the Championship. I've played there and I don't want to play there again for West Ham.

The way the Premier League is now we have a lot of foreign players. A lot of very good foreign players.

The Premier League is a results business.

At the end of the day, West Ham are a Premier League football club and that's all that matters.

It is hard if you have got family and kids and you have to leave them on Christmas Day to go and train but listen, we are a small minority of lucky players. We have obviously worked hard for this, but we are lucky enough to have the ability to play in the Premier League.

To accumulate almost 500 games in a decade and a half means I'm averaging more than 30 per season and I'm proud of that.

People have to realise we are footballers, we are targets but we have got to protect ourselves.

Modibo Maiga, Guy Demel and Momo Diame can't understand how you go fishing and chuck them back. They say, 'Bring it in, I'll eat it.'

I'm really not convinced I want to be a manager at all. Managers are just wide open to abuse.

When I speak to my dad and my wife, and friends, they say it's 10 years at West Ham, you're leading the team out every week, when you sit back and really think about it, it's very rare.

I've played under Alan Pardew, Gianfranco Zola, Avram Grant, Sam Allardyce, Alan Curbishley and Slaven's made me captain.