Quotes from Frank Lampard

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.

People can talk about my age for as long as they like. There is nothing better in football than proving people wrong, and I'll try to do that for as long as I can.

I think about all my successes and failures, and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.

I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.

If I lose the ball, I lose it trying to do the right thing. That's the way it is.

I am a man who likes to play consistently; I always play better when I'm on a run of games.

Goals never come easy. No one gives you goals.

I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.

Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.

When you take a lot of stick you want to ram it down people's throats.

There's that talent thing where I can score goals, and there's also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing it and doing it. I've seen a lot of players do it for a year and then they rest on their laurels, but I've been very driven throughout my career. Without being the most talented, I think I've tried to make the most of it.

I come from a football family which has really helped.

To be honest, I was Mum's boy. Always was, always will be.

I like to go to America. That's where I go for most of my holidays.

I admit I was somewhat concerned when we started to sign so many players - naturally you are going to worry about whether you can retain your place in the side.

Having grown up watching Barcelona, Elen gets a bit annoyed watching me if I don't do flicks and tricks like Ronaldinho. I have to explain you can't do that all the time in a game!

Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and know them as lads, it's always a bit different.

I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.

I have a lot of good football talk with cabbies, but when you want to get somewhere in a hurry, it can be distracting. I always know they're going to want to talk football if 'Talksport' is on the radio.

If I could have been anyone in the world, it would have been Ronaldinho. He's fantastic, I love watching him.

I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.

I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG' on the iPad the other day and it was so interesting to see his descriptions of clothes and places.

I'm really happy here. I think anyone who knows me well, and the fans too I hope, they know that I love the area, and the bond that I've had with the fans has been fantastic.

I've enjoyed every minute of travelling and playing for my country. What an honour that is.