Quotes from Kyle Lafferty

You have to have something about you to perform in Scotland. I'm sure these foreign players are excellent but we don't know how they're going to perform.

Seeing young boys wearing your country's shirt with your name on it is the best feeling you can probably have.

I knew it was against the rules to bet on football, but when you've got an addiction you just want to win that money back.

Glasgow is a strange place. If you don't have someone close to you looking out for you, your head will wander.

I'm not looking for sympathy. If there's other footballers addicted to gambling, then maybe me speaking about my battle might help them.

I've got a nice, big house. I've got two nice cars, including a Bentley, and I'm test-driving a Porsche.

I won't pay a guy money that I don't think he deserves.

I'm no different from anyone else but I don't trust giving my details online, so any betting I do, I go into a bookies.

Scotland - and Glasgow - is a tough place to play football and a lot of big names have come up here and not produced.

When a team like Rangers is interested in you, it's something you have to look at and you know you're doing something right.

I think that's why gamblers get so bad, being online. It makes it so easy. I don't have any online accounts, I never have.

It's always been an ambition of mine to play in the Premier League and I feel, if I moved to Wolves then I'd have an excellent chance of reaching what many believe is the greatest league in the world.

Hearing teams like Rangers are interested in you, you intend to give that little bit extra to show that obviously you can play and score goals.

I'm always going to be a Rangers fans and I'll always look out for their results. But if I thought the fans would have me back, then I'd always have that door open.

I've been around the world and it's an experience I've enjoyed. But there's no feeling like pulling on a Rangers jersey and playing in front of those fans every week.

I'd be up three grand and I'd end up losing the lot. It didn't affect me because I knew I was about to get a move and the signing-on fee would make up for the money I lost.

I've no problem with Neil Lennon. I'm thrilled for him to be interested in me. He tried to sign me for Bolton but football is football.

Playing in Norway allowed me to get back out onto the pitch and get game time, it was great to be playing regularly again.

Betting on football had been banned and, if anything, things got worse. I'd bet on horses instead. I knew absolutely nothing about horses.

But I think I'm always going to be remembered for being the daft guy who had a chance at Rangers and never took it.

I've always given 110% for Northern Ireland, for my country. I'll never throw in the towel.

It should be a special moment and young kids are brought up to give their right arm to play for their country. I wasn't fully focussed at the start.

I have travelled and I have played for some amazing clubs along the way. In Italy and at Sion, I enjoyed my time.

I spoke to the Sporting Chance clinic and I was seeing a guy in London every one or two weeks for an hour-long meeting about my gambling.