Quotes from Mark Noble

I always wanted to be one of the best players in the world like Zinedine Zidane, so it was great that I ended up playing at West Ham against some of the best players in the world.

I was walking along somewhere in the Maldives and there were West Ham fans there. It's crazy.

I'm as passionate as the fans, I want West Ham to do well whether I'm in the team or not.

In football winning games is all that matters, but a team like West Ham and every team apart from Man City are going to lose games.

To wear this shirt, especially with the West Ham badge on it - it takes an honest player, hard-working, a player that leaves everything on the pitch and plays for the crest on the shirt.

The way football is, sometimes, everything that could go wrong goes wrong. You have to dig yourselves out of that by simply working hard and sticking together.

I've been lucky enough to experience some big tournaments at Under-21 level and would love to be part of a World Cup in England.

Arts are what free and thriving people do with their time after their critical needs have been met.

I want to score but when you think of the soldiers in Iraq with bullets flying around their heads you realise a penalty isn't something to get too worried about.

You have to take the good with the bad and if you have to play over Christmas you have to. We have a good life and playing football over Christmas is not the worst thing in the world.

We're not robots, we're not factory built. We have feelings, we have families and we go through tough times that people don't know about. Sometimes your form isn't good and there's a reason for that. Sometimes the team isn't playing well and you can't quite work out why.

I was at Arsenal as an 11-year-old. I really enjoyed it but I was at school and my dad used to drive me there after work. Sometimes we were in traffic for two hours. They wanted to keep me but I wasn't getting home until nearly 11 P. M. I loved it there but it wasn't right, so I came to West Ham and haven't looked back.

I love playing football. I always look at it as there's a lot worse things you can be doing than coming into a training ground in the morning and playing footy and having a laugh with the boys.

When I was a youngster, my dream was to play in the first team. I was constantly thinking, 'Will I make a career in football? Am I going to have to go out and get a job?'

I hate for people to think that I have only played for West Ham because I am the local lad and people make allowances for me.

I used to do a lot of fishing with my dad, usually in Beckton Boating Lake.

When you're 2-0 up and you lose possession, you sprint back. So much of it is down to confidence - it's really down to really wanting to make that run.

You have to hit the ground running at West Ham. If you don't, suddenly from the fans it's, 'You're not good enough to play for our football club.'

If you want to pay money for an English talent you pay way over the odds. You get players from abroad really cheap.

I ended up buying a van to chuck all my fishing gear in because I couldn't keep using my car.

It's a fear of failure which drives me on.

I don't think I'm a bad egg.

You can't play man to man against Liverpool and out-pass them. You have to keep your shape and stop them.