Quotes from Scott Parker

There is a process at Fulham how they sign players. The owner is the owner, but I do have a say and will give my opinion.'

I remember the first time I got paid, I went out and spent my wages on clothes. Style has always been a massive focal point for me.

When my boy has lost 4-0 on a Sunday morning, I'm the Dad in the car saying: 'OK mate, don't worry, we can do this or do that'. When I got in the car after losing a game I sat in the backseat and had to keep my mouth closed.

I like dealing with people. I like being around people, and that side of me can try to get the best out of others, really. As a player and as a captain, I felt I did that.

On the field, I was probably coaching more, helping players and doing my coaching badges.

You can't build teams with drastic changes or a drastic swing of players.

You see it every week, when a player makes a mistake, his first action is to try and put it right, and nine times out of 10 the first thing they do when they've made a mistake is take out everyone in front of them because they want to make amends.

We want hungry players, players who have a burning ambition to play in the Premier League and stay in the Premier League for years to come.

I realise I have to adapt my game a bit at international level; that the combativeness in the Premier League is a little bit different at international level.

We live in a world and a profession where you win a game, you lose the next one and you're deemed a failure.

I now have 10 years' more experience from when I broke into the game. I can deal with disappointments easier, and all of that helps to make me a better player. It's the same in any walk of life, in any job.

Of course there's a technical element but nine times out of 10 when you're having a bad day it will mainly be mental: the mistake you've made, the comment you've heard, the crowd's reaction to a shot over the bar - fter that the fear's coming in.

I love what I'm doing, I really do. This has been a process which has taken me seven years to accomplish. Some bad years, then spending a year with Spurs U18s last year trying to cut my teeth.

I keep telling the players to enjoy the good moments. There are too many moments in this world currently that are pretty miserable and downbeat, so if there is light at certain times, I want them to enjoy it.

I used a psychologist when I was playing, It's one of the most powerful things: how you can have a concrete head and not let things in.

You can play all the games you want as a professional footballer, but when you go into coaching it's just totally different.

If someone a lot quicker than me was running past, I might have pulled his shirt.

I need to keep performing because there are so many players behind me, for club and country, who are willing to take my place. But I know if I maintain my form and focus, good things will come of it.

I think experience is vital for that. You become wiser: you know where to be, what positions to take up, how to play it.

In football, especially at international level, opportunities come along and you have to grab them.

I'm familiar with Bournemouth because of my relationship with Harry Arter. It's a football club I know well from watching him over the years.

When you're at a football club, the heart and soul of it is bigger than a win or a loss, so I'd like to think I leave the football club in a good place.

At the back end of my career I'd put myself in the situations you see in changing rooms. Where there is conflict, arguments, fights, players refusing this and that, players kicking off.

World-class midfield players get their share of goals and that's something I want to add to my game.