Quotes from Emile Heskey

Football is about the team winning the game, it doesnt matter who scores, its who has won after 90 minutes, its 11 against 11. Players understand that.

No one should have to put up with someone screaming in their face. Theres got to be a better way of getting the best out of people.

Critically, you have to remain positive and know you will recover, remembering if you didn't suffer injuries, you'd be a pretty remarkable competitor in any sport.

My childhood was spent in a poorish neighbourhood in Leicester so that makes you cherish money more than if youd had a lot.

At Liverpool and England I formed a great partnership with Michael Owen who played off me with great success and in more recent times Wayne Rooney carried out a similar role.

Its easy to underestimate how much scrutiny players are under in England. Look at someone like Wayne Rooney - having to deal with it since he was 16.

I wouldnt mind getting into coaching at some stage.

I watched players getting really battered by the coach and their head just goes down, they dont want to play, theyre not enjoying it. Back then theyd say: that shows mental weakness. No, you were just horrible.

Ive never been one for having a huge number of fast cars. The fastest one I ever had was a Porsche 911 and I never really drove it.

When you leave school and go into an academy, you understand its about what you contribute to the team. What stuck with me was, win your own battle and help your mate.

You can score as many goals as you want, but you are always going to have your critics.

Critics are going to be critics, people are always going to get on your back, but as long as you go out there and do your job, then that's all you can do.

I was lucky enough. I won four League Cups, FA Cup, UEFA Cup, Super Cup and two Charity Shields. I went to two World Cups and two Euros.

Id done a bit of coaching towards the end of my playing career, working with the U-21s at Bolton, but here I have the opportunity to get involved a lot more, working with individual players and looking at different tactics.

As a No9, when youre up front on your own, your job is to keep the defence as far back as possible. Why? Because that gives more space to the No10.

When you talk about target men, midfielders dont like when people hide; they want you to be showing for it, hbeing a team olding the ball up, passing it and moving around.

Every striker wants to score more goals but as a target man I've always taken great delight in bringing other players into the game.

When you went to Old Trafford, you feared what was going to happen.

And for me, you get the best out of yourself when the pressure is on. You want to play in cup finals and important games, those important games are the pressure games, because you have to win them.

At the end of the day a player has to show willingness to actually want to play for the club, and want to play for the team.

Growing up, playing in a World Cup, scoring in a World Cup, is what you dream about.

I started at nine, I was told what to do, when to do it, how to do it from the age of nine till I was 38 so it's tough when you're coming out of that and trying to navigate during that as well.

I was lucky enough to have Tony Cottee when I was at Leicester, who was a senior pro at the time and would give me advice on certain things and it does help.

Im very much a peoples person. Ill always sacrifice myself for other people. And its done alright for me.