Quotes from Glenn Murray

The Championship is a really tough league with a huge prize at the end of it.

All goals are amazing. But scoring away from home, if I am honest, is extra special.

As a teenager, I was in the Carlisle schoolboy scheme and while I was excited to join at first, I look back on it as a tough few years.

I know hotel life sounds good but, believe me, it grows old when you have eaten the menu ten times over and you know you've stayed too long when you're on first-name terms with the staff.

When I was young, I would dwell on games and beat myself up about a result. I would lock myself away in the house, almost punishing myself and those around me.

We know the English market is quite high and I think that sometimes puts clubs off. I think there is a lot of hype around the Premier League.

I grew up desperate to be a professional footballer and I was willing to do anything to be one.

Players at the top level are generally more athletic, stronger and more thoughtful. They have a quicker turn of pace but more than anything they're clinical and decisive in their actions.

My time in non-league definitely grounded me and taught me to take nothing for granted - there was no glamour involved, that is for sure.

Most things in life you can work for or buy. But I can't guarantee a goal... And when it comes, I can't give that feeling to anyone. Only I can feel it and know it. I want my children, my wife and people close to me to have that feeling. But I can never give them that.

Scoring goals is the best feeling in the world. It's a habit. It's a drug. Everybody runs away in the playground pretending they've scored in front of thousands of people. I do that for real.

Stadium tunnels are often tight and filled with testosterone. With that combination of a confined space and emotions running high you get the ideal scenario for confrontation.

When I left Carlisle United for the first time at the age of 16 in 2000, I hated football.

When Carlisle released me, I felt as though the dream of being a footballer was over.

I never imagined I'd make it in the Football League.

But I like Harry Kane's robustness and where Harry Kane's come from as well. He dropped down into the lower leagues and learnt his trade on loan.

If there is ever one thing you learn as a professional footballer, you have a lot of critics and you have the chance to silence your critics.

I'm never going to be one of these players who dribbles past three and bends it into the top corner from 25 yards. That's not me.

The archetypal No. 10 is a skillful player who is more interested in being in possession than tracking to get the ball back.

Do I do yoga? Yeah.

It is well-documented that Bournemouth like to play football. I think I can give them a slightly different dimension when the ball goes into the box.

I can remember playing for Carlisle and just running around like a headless chicken telling the others boys not to worry, that I'd do their running for them. I was just so eager and so keen and desperate to be a footballer that I did that.

Anyone who's kicked a ball with their mates and played for their local club knows the buzz of being part of a team, playing without fear or pressure.

Tactics, gameplan and players are all influential in how a team performs but the question is how to manage every individual in your charge and get them to play like a finely tuned orchestra.